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Alien Soil

Oral Histories of Great Migration Newark

Rutgers University Press

Alien Soil: Oral Histories of Great Migration Newark looks at Newark, New Jersey’s once proposed Krueger-Scott African-American Cultural Center and the oral history collection generated to be a part of the Center. The narrators in this oral history collection recount their lives in Newark, painting pictures of everyday urbanity while also providing insight into 20th century Black urban life more generally.

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1650-1850

Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 29)

Bucknell University Press

Exploratory and energetically analytical, 16501850 ranges over the expanse of long eighteenth-century culture. Welcoming research on all nations and language traditions, this annual escorts its readers into a truly global Enlightenment. Volume 29 includes essays on familiar topics such as Samuel Johnson and women’s education while it also showcases Sir Joseph Banks’s globetrotting and provides a vivaciously interdisciplinary special feature on the cultural implications of water. Capping it all off is a diverse bevy of robust, full-length book reviews.

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Unruly Tree

Poems

University of New Mexico Press
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The Case for Critical Literacy

A History of Reading in Writing Studies

Utah State University Press

The Case for Critical Literacy explores the history of reading within writing studies and lays the foundation for understanding the impact of this critical, yet often untaught, skill. 

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The American Southeast at the End of the Ice Age

University of Alabama Press

The definitive book on what is known about the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene archaeological record in the Southeast
 

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Panther Creek

A Pawnee Country Mystery

University of New Mexico Press
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Doing Difference Differently

Chinese International Students’ Literacy Practices and Affordances

Utah State University Press

Doing Difference Differently ethnographically recounts the stories of four Chinese international students navigating the complex socio-academic environment of a North American institution for higher education. 

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Doing Difference Differently

Chinese International Students' Literacy Practices and Affordances

Utah State University Press

Doing Difference Differently ethnographically recounts the stories of four Chinese international students navigating the complex socio-academic environment of a North American institution for higher education. 

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Burnin' Daylight

Building a Principle-Driven Writing Program

Utah State University Press

Rooted in contemporary understandings of social action, informed by up-to-date research on writing program administration, and attentive to the needs of value-driven decision-making, Burnin’ Daylight enables writing program administrators (WPAs) to shape writing programs that help people create the lives they envision.

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Broken Boxes

A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue

University of New Mexico Press
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A Walk with Frank O'Hara

Poems

University of New Mexico Press
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Fighting Shirley Chisholm

University of Florida Press, Library Press at UF
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American Tacos

A History and Guide

University of Texas Press

The first history of tacos developed in the United States, now revised and expanded, this book is the definitive survey that American taco lovers must have for their own taco explorations.

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The Rise of Newport’s Catholics

From Colonial Outcasts to Gilded Age Leaders

University of Massachusetts Press
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The Calusa and Their Legacy

South Florida People and Their Environments

University Press of Florida

Rich with photographs and colorful drawings, this history of south Florida’s Calusa people presents a vivid picture of the natural environment and teeming estuaries along Florida’s coasts that sustained the Calusa.

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Some Nightmares Are Real

The Haunting Truth Behind Alabama’s Supernatural Tales

By Kelly Kazek; Illustrated by Sarah Cotton
University of Alabama Press

Southern writer and folklorist Kelly Kazek’s collection of eerie and enigmatic Alabama ghost stories

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Official Guide to Texas State Parks and Historic Sites

New Edition

University of Texas Press

The essential guide to Texas’s state parks and historic sites.

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Civil Rights in Bakersfield

Segregation and Multiracial Activism in the Central Valley

University of Texas Press

A multiracial history of civil rights coalitions beyond the farm worker movement in twentieth-century Bakersfield, California.

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Ken Russell

Interviews

University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with the unconventional British filmmaker discussing his colorful life and career in movies and television

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Gunlore

Firearms, Folkways, and Communities

University Press of Mississippi

A balanced assessment of gun culture and its folklore in America

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