New Books
vol. 3: Creating Hull-House and an International Presence, 1889-1900
Jane Addams Edited by Mary Lynn McCree Bryan, Maree de Angury, and Ellen Skerrett
The Life of Noah Brooks
Wayne C. Temple Edited by Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis
Barbara Mennel
US Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965
Edited by Maddalena Marinari, Madeline Y. Hsu, and Maria Cristina Garcia
How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice
Jessica Wilkerson
Jon Cates
Tools and Methods for Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Edited by Jennifer Travis and Jessica DeSpain
Latest Blog Post
Celebrating Jane Addams during Women’s History Month
Just in time for Women’s History Month, the 3rd volume of Jane Addams’s papers, The Selected Papers of Jane Addams Volume 3: Creating Hull-House and an International Presence 1889-1900 is now available. Jane Addams, a young woman from Cedarville, Illinois, emigrated … Continue reading
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Q&A with Noah Brooks: An Excerpt from Lincoln’s Confidant
Check out an excerpt from Lincoln’s Confidant by Wayne C. Temple, in which Noah Brooks completes an 19th century approximation of our modern-day personality quizzes. Through his answers, we get a sense of Brooks’s humor and easy-going nature, giving us … Continue reading
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Chinatown Opera Theater in North America Awarded 2019 Association for Asian American Studies Award
We are pleased to announce that Chinatown Opera Theater in North America by Nancy Yunhwa Rao has won the 2019 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Outstanding Achievement in Humanities and Cultural Studies: Media, Visual, and Performance Studies. The award committee … Continue reading
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