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Exporting Jim Crow
Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond
- Copyright year: 2020
Cross-Racial Class Protest in Antebellum American Literature
- Copyright year: 2020
A Wolf by the Ears
- Copyright year: 2020
Prophets, Publicists, and Parasites
Antebellum Print Culture and the Rise of the Critic
- Copyright year: 2020
Collecting the Globe
The Salem East India Marine Society Museum
- Copyright year: 2020
Contested and Dangerous Seas
North Atlantic Fishermen, Their Wives, Unions, and the Politics of Exclusion
- Copyright year: 2020
American Intelligence
Small-Town News and Political Culture in Federalist New Hampshire
- Copyright year: 2020
The Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
- Copyright year: 2020
Preserving Maritime America
A Cultural History of the Nation's Great Maritime Museums
- Copyright year: 2019
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"Theatricals of Day"
Emily Dickinson and Nineteenth-Century American Popular Culture
- Copyright year: 2019
Time for Childhoods
Young Poets and Questions of Agency
- Copyright year: 2020
Shaker Vision
Seeing Beauty in Early America
- Copyright year: 2019
Kids Have All the Write Stuff
Revised and Updated for a Digital Age
- Copyright year: 2019
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Faraway Women and the "Atlantic Monthly"
- Copyright year: 2019
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"There Is a North"
Fugitive Slaves, Political Crisis, and Cultural Transformation in the Coming of the Civil War
- Copyright year: 2019
Maria Baldwin's Worlds
A Story of Black New England and the Fight for Racial Justice
- Copyright year: 2019
Campuses of Consent
Sexual and Social Justice in Higher Education
- Copyright year: 2019