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Archibald and Brattin, Dickens and
Massachusetts 15
Bernard, Desert sonorous
11
Bolaki and Broeck, Audre Lordes
Transnational Legacies 9
Felsenstein and Connolly, What Middletown
Read
4
Feldberg, UMass Boston at 50
19
Hecht, Storytelling and Science 16
Horowitz, On the Cusp 2
Johnson, The New Bostonians 3
Kutz-Marks, Violin Playing Herself in a Mirror 10
Mason, Viens, and Wright, Massachusetts
and the Civil War
14
McDermott and Story, The Other Jonathan
Edwards
12
Murrell, The Most Dangerous Communist 1
in the United States
1
OBrien, Landscapes of Exclusion 5
Parker, Making the Desert Modern 7
Thompson, Patient Expectations 13
Totten, African American Travel Narratives
from Abroad
8
Vuic, The Sarajevo Olympics 6
Yachnin and Eberhart, Forms of Association 17
University Museum of Contemporary Art
Du Bois in Our Time
18
Cover art:
Thu Bich Le, left, formerly of Vietnam, waves a flag at the
conclusion of a swearing-in ceremony for 5,000 new citizens
at Fenway Park in Boston, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010.
(AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
The University of Massachusetts Press is a proud member
of the Association of American University Presses.
A first-rate piece of
scholarship and a great
book, which amounts
not only to the life story
of an individual, but a
balanced, provocative,
and clear-eyed history
of American Communism
from its 1930s heyday to
its virtual collapse in
the 1990s.
Maurice Isserman, author of
If I Had a Hammer: The Death
of the Old Left and the Birth
of the New Left
A probing biography of a controversial

American scholar-activist
The Most Dangerous

Communist in the
United States
A Biography of Herbert Aptheker

Gary Murrell
With an afterword by Bettina Aptheker
When J. Edgar Hoover declared Herbert Aptheker the

most dangerous Communist in the United States, the
notorious FBI director misconstrued his true significance. In this first book-length biography of Aptheker
(19152003), Gary Murrell provides a balanced yet
unflinching assessment of the controversial figure
who was at once a leading historian of African
America, radical political activist, literary executor of
W. E. B. Du Bois, and lifelong member of the American
Communist Party. Although blacklisted at U.S. universities, Aptheker published dozens of books, including
the groundbreaking American Negro Slave Revolts (1943)
and the monumental seven-volume Documentary History of the Negro People (19511994). He also edited four
volumes of the correspondence and unpublished writings of Du Bois, an achievement that Eric Foner, writing in the New York Times Book Review, called a milestone in the coming of age of Afro-American history.
As Murrell shows, Aptheker the historian was inseparable from Aptheker the leading Communist Party
intellectual, polemicist, and agitator. During the 1960s,
his ability to rouse and inspire both black and white
student radicals made him one of the few Old Leftists
accepted by the New Left. Aptheker had joined the
CPUSA during its heyday in the 1930s, convinced that
only through the partys leadership could fascism be
defeated and true liberation be achieved: he ended his
affiliation five decades later in 1991 after the collapse of
socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
In an afterword, Bettina Aptheker adds to

Murrells narrative by illuminating her mother
Fays vital contributions to her fathers work
and by affirming the particularly devastating
challenges of life in a family dedicated to radical
political and social change.
Gary Murrell is professor of history at

Grays Harbor College.
American History / African American Studies

456 pp., 6 illus.
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-154-9
$95.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-153-2
August 2015
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The experiences of a single college class as

a barometer of cultural change
On the Cusp
The Yale College Class of 1960 and a

World on the Verge of Change
Daniel Horowitz
A fascinating memoir and an important contribution to the field of American studies. Horowitz
juxtaposes and contextualizes his own experiences
with those of his classmates to address the larger
question of generational meaning.
Wendy Kline, author of Bodies of Knowledge:
Sexuality, Reproduction, and Womens Health in
the Second Wave
Daniel Horowitz is Mary Huggins

Gamble Professor of American Studies Emeritus
at Smith College. He is author of Betty Friedan
and the Making of The Feminine Mystique:
The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern
Feminism (University of Massachusetts Press,
1998) and The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques
of American Consumer Culture, 19391979
(University of Massachusetts Press, 2004).
How did the 1950s become The Sixties? This is the

question at the heart of Daniel Horowitzs On the Cusp.
Part personal memoir, part collective biography, and
part cultural history, the book illuminates the dynamics
of social and political change through the experiences of
a small, and admittedly privileged, generational cohort.
A Jewish townie from New Haven when he entered
Yale College in fall 1956, Horowitz reconstructs the
undergraduate career of the class of 1960 and follows
its story into the next decade. He begins by looking at
curricular and extracurricular life on the all-male campus, then ranges beyond the confines of Yale to larger
contexts, including the local drama of urban renewal,
the lingering shadow of McCarthyism, and decolonization movements around the world. He ponders the role
of the university in protecting the prerogatives of class
while fostering social mobility, and examines the growing significance of race and gender in American politics
and culture, spurred by a convergence of the personal
and the political. Along the way he traces the political
evolution of his classmates, left and right, as Cold War
imperatives lose force and public attention shifts to the
civil rights movement and the war in Vietnam.
Throughout Horowitz draws on a broad range of
sources, including personal interviews, writings by classmates, reunion books, issues of the Yale Daily News, and
other undergraduate publications, as well as his own
letters and college papers. The end product is a work
consistent with much of Horowitzs previously published scholarship on postwar America, further exposing
the undercurrent of discontent and dissent that ran just
beneath the surface of the so-called Cold War consensus.
American History / American Studies

352 pp., 28 illus.
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-145-7
$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-144-0
May 2015
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The impact of the 1965 Immigration Act

on the city of Boston
The New Bostonians
How Immigrants Have Transformed

the Metro Area since the 1960s
Marilynn S. Johnson
Among the most consequential pieces of Great Society

legislation, the Immigration Act of 1965 opened the
nations doors to large-scale immigration from Africa,
Asia, and Latin America. A half century later, the impact
of the new immigration is evident in the transformation
of the countrys demographics, economy, politics, and
culture, particularly in urban America.
In The New Bostonians, Marilynn S. Johnson examines the historical confluence of recent immigration and
urban transformation in greater Boston, a region that
underwent dramatic decline after World War II. Since
the 1980s, the Boston area has experienced an astounding renaissancea development, she argues, to which
immigrants have contributed in numerous ways. From
1970 to 2010, the percentage of foreign-born residents
of the city more than doubled, representing far more
diversity than earlier waves of immigration. Like the
older Irish, Italian, and other European immigrant
groups whose labor once powered the regions industrial
economy, these newer migrants have been crucial in
re-building the population, labor force, and metropolitan
landscape of the New Boston, although the fruits of the
new prosperity have not been equally shared.
Many researchers and scholars have hinted at,

talked about, and explored the possibility of
writing a history of the new immigrants in the
Boston area. Johnson has taken on this prodigious
task and produced a very strong piece of work.
Paul Watanabe,
University of Massachusetts Boston
The Boston case is a special one, as the city has
been neglected by immigrant historians, except
for the pre-1945 era and the issues of religion
and politics. Johnson is bringing to light another
history, one of immigration in recent years.
David Reimers, author of Unwelcome Strangers:
American Identity and the Turn against Immigration
Marilynn S. Johnson is professor

of history at Boston College. She is author
of numerous books, including Street Justice:
A History of Police Violence in New York City.
American History / New England History

288 pp., 20 illus.
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-147-1
$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-146-4
August 2015
A revealing portrait of reading in the

quintessential American town
What Middletown Read
Print Culture in an American Small City

Frank Felsenstein and
James J. Connolly
This book makes an extremely important

contribution to the literature on print culture
history both for its methodological content and
for what it has to tell us about the print culture of
Middletown.
Christine Pawley, author of Reading Places:
Literacy, Democracy, and the Public Library in Cold
War America
Frank Felsenstein is Reed D. Voran

Honors Distinguished Professor in Humanities
and professor of English at Ball State University.
He is author of English Trader, Indian Maid:
Representing Gender, Race, and Slavery in the New
World.
James J. Connolly is director of the Center
for Middletown Studies and Frances Bell
Distinguished Professor of History at Ball State
University. He is the author, most recently, of
An Elusive Unity: Urban Democracy and Machine
Politics in Industrializing America.
Print Culture Studies / American History
344 pp., 16 illus.
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-141-9
$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-140-2
June 2105
The discovery of a large cache of circulation records

from the Muncie, Indiana, Public Library in 2003
offers unprecedented detail about American reading
behavior at the turn of the twentieth century. Frank
Felsenstein and James J. Connolly have mined these
records to produce an in-depth account of print culture
in Muncie, the city featured in the famed Middletown
studies conducted by Robert and Helen Lynd almost
a century ago. Using the data assembled and made
public through the What Middletown Read Database
(www.bsu.edu/libraries/wmr), a celebrated new
resource the authors helped launch, Felsenstein and
Connolly analyze the borrowing choices and reading
culture of social groups and individuals.
What Middletown Read is much more than a statistical
study. Felsenstein and Connolly dig into diaries, meeting minutes, newspaper reports, and local histories to
trace the librarys development in relation to the citys
cosmopolitan aspirations, to profile individual readers,
and to explore such topics as the relationship between
childrens reading and their schooling and what books
were discussed by local womens clubs. The authors situate borrowing patterns and reading behavior within the
contexts of a rapidly growing, culturally ambitious small
city, an evolving public library, an expanding market for
print, and the broad social changes that accompanied
industrialization in the United States. The result is a rich,
revealing portrait of the place of reading in an emblematic American community.
a volume in the series

Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
The untold story of segregation

in state parks
Landscapes of Exclusion
State Parks and Jim Crow in the

American South
William E. OBrien
During the 1930s, the state park movement and the

National Park Service expanded public access to scenic
American places, especially during the era of the New
Deal. However, under severe Jim Crow restrictions in
the South, African Americans were routinely and
officially denied entrance to these supposedly shared
sites. In response, advocacy groups pressured the
National Park Service to provide some facilities for
African Americans. William OBrien shows that these
parks were typically substandard in relation to whites
only areas.
As the NAACP filed federal lawsuits that demanded
park integration and increased pressure on park officials, southern park agencies reacted with attempts
to expand segregated facilities, hoping they could
demonstrate that these parks achieved the separate
but equal standard. But the courts consistently ruled
in favor of integration, leading to the end of segregated
state parks by the middle of the 1960s. Even though
the stories behind these largely inferior facilities faded
from public awareness, the imprint of segregated state
park design remains visible throughout the South.
OBrien illuminates this untold facet of Jim
Crow history in the first-ever study of segregation in
southern state parks. His new book underscores the
profound inequality that persisted for decades in the
number, size, and quality of state parks provided for
black visitors in the Jim Crow South.
OBriens book addresses the omission of race

from both landscape architecture and the study
of park history, and shows that park design was,
like many activities, racially discriminatory. We
may not like this history, but it is important to
examine it.
Heidi Hohmann, Iowa State Universitys
College of Design
OBrien has completed a remarkable work of
scholarship in landscape history that makes it
possible for us, finally, to understand this
formerly obscured, but clearly significant,
category of American parks, those created
under the separate but equal doctrine.
Ethan Carr, author of Mission 66: Modernism
and the National Park Dilemma
William E. OBrien is associate professor

of environmental studies at the Harriet L. Wilkes
Honors College of Florida Atlantic University.

Designing the American Park

Landscape Architecture / American History

280 pp., 50 black and white illus., 8.5" x 10" format
$39.95 jacketed cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-155-6
August 2015
Published in association with Library of American Landscape History
The first book-length history of the

1984 Winter Olympic Games
The Sarajevo Olympics
A History of the 1984 Winter Games

Jason Vuic
Few human enterprises blend light and darkness

quite so much as the Olympics, where international cooperation and nationalistic fervor do
battle in a five-ring circus. The 1984 Winter
Games in Sarajevo were a profoundly doubleedged spectacle. The lively writing of Jason Vuic
re-lights the torch for all of us in a colorful
remembrance of the best and the worst of what
the Olympics can be.
Marty Dobrow, author of Knocking on
Heavens Door: Six Minor Leaguers in Search
of the Baseball Dream
An independent scholar and freelance

writer, Jason Vuic holds a PhD in Balkan
and Eastern European history from Indiana
University. His previous publications include
The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in
History.
To most observers, the 1984 Winter Olympics in

Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, were an unmitigated success.
That year, the unlikeliest of candidate cities in the
unlikeliest of candidate countries did what many had
thought impossible: it hosted an international sports
competition at the highest level, housing and feeding
hundreds of athletes and thousands of tourists while
broadcasting a positive image of socialist Yugoslavia
to the world.
The first Winter Games held in a communist country, Sarajevo also marked the first Olympic confrontation of Soviet and American athletes since the U.S.
boycott of the 1980 Moscow Summer Games. And the
competitions themselves were spectacular and memorable. This was the Olympics of British ice dancers
Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, American skiers
Wild Bill Johnson and Debbie Armstrong, and East
German skaters Katarina Witt and Karin Enke, not to
mention a Soviet hockey team that rebounded from
its stunning loss to the Americans at Lake Placid four
years earlier to win all seven of its matches.
Yet The Sarajevo Olympics is more than just a history
of sport. Jason Vuic also retraces the history of the
Olympic movement, analyzes the inner workings of
the International Olympic Committee during the
troubled 1970s and 1980s, and places the 1984 Winter
Games in the context of Cold War geopolitics. The book
begins and ends by reminding readers that less than a
decade after it hosted the Olympics, the Bosnian city of
Sarajevo found itself at the vortex of a bloody and
brutal civil war that would end with the dissolution
of the multiethnic Yugoslavian state.
Sports History / Cold War

232 pp., 22 illus.
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-165-5
$85.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-164-8
April 2015
How one American oil company shaped

U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East
Making the Desert Modern

Americans, Arabs, and Oil on the Saudi
Frontier, 19331973
Chad H. Parker
In 1933 American oilmen representing what later

became the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco)
signed a concession agreement with the Saudi Arabian
king granting the company sole proprietorship over the
oil reserves in the countrys largest province. As drilling commenced and wells proliferated, Aramco soon
became a major presence in the region. In this book
Chad H. Parker tells Aramcos story, showing how an
American company seeking resources and profits not
only contributed to Saudi nation building but helped
define U.S. foreign policy during the early Cold War.
In the years following World War II, as Aramco
expanded its role in Saudi Arabia, the idea of
modernization emerged as a central component
of American foreign policy toward newly independent
states. Although the company engaged in practices
supportive of U.S. goals, its own modernizing efforts
tended to be pragmatic rather than policy-driven, more
consistent with furthering its business interests than
with validating abstract theories. Aramco built the
infrastructure necessary to extract oil and also carved
an American suburb out of the Arabian desert, with all
the air-conditioned comforts of Western modern life.
At the same time, executives cultivated powerful relationships with Saudi government officials and, to the
annoyance of U.S. officials, even served the monarchy
in diplomatic disputes. Before long the company
became the principal American diplomatic, political,
and cultural agent in the country, a role it would continue to play until 1973, when the Saudi government
took over its operation.

Culture, Politics, and the Cold War
A valuable case study of private diplomacy,

Making the Desert Modern will serve as a model
for a growing number of scholars in diplomatic
history who are turning their attention to the
roots of economic globalization and the interplay
between corporations and states in an
international context.
Christian G. Appy, author of
American Reckoning: The Vietnam War
and Our National Identity
Chad H. Parker is associate professor

of history at the University of Louisiana at
Lafayette.

176 pp.
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-157-0
$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-156-3
May 2015
Examines global travel writing from

prominent African American writers
African American Travel

Narratives from Abroad
Mobility and Cultural Work in the
Age of Jim Crow
Gary Totten
Totten does an excellent job demonstrating how

the mobility of authors represented in these narratives in most cases cuts against centuries of
systematic political, economic, and social immobilization of African Americans as a result of the
Atlantic Slave Trade, centuries of chattel slavery
in the U.S., and decades of Jim Crow segregation.
This study makes a valuable and original contribution to the spatial turn in American literary
and cultural studies.
John C. Charles Williamson, author of
Abandoning the Black Hero: Sympathy and Privacy
in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel
Gary Totten is professor of English at

North Dakota State University. He is editor of
Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors: Edith
Wharton and Material Culture and editor-in-chief
of the journal MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of
the United States.
During the Jim Crow era, African American travelers

faced the prospects of violence, harassment, and the
denial of services, especially as they made their way
throughout the American South. Those who journeyed
outside the United States found not only a political
and social context that was markedly different from
Americas, but in their international mobility, they also
discovered new ways of identifying themselves in relation to others.
In this book, Gary Totten examines the global travel
narratives of a diverse set of African American writers,
including Ida B. Wells, Booker T. Washington,
Matthew Henson, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and Zora
Neale Hurston. While these writers deal with issues of
identity in relation to a reimagined sense of selfin a
way that we might expect to find in travel narratives
they also push against the constraints and conventions
of the genre, reconsidering discourses of tourism, ethnography, and exploration. This book not only offers
new insights about African American writers and
mobility, it also charts the ideological distinctions and
divergent agendas within this group of writers. Totten
demonstrates how these travelers and their writings
challenged dominant ideologies about African American experience, expression, and identity in a period of
escalating racial violence. By setting these texts in their
historical context and within the genre of travel writing, Totten presents a nuanced understanding of both
popular and recovered work of the period.
African American Studies / American Literature

192 pp., 3 illus.
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-161-7
$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-160-0
June 2015
The first book to consider Audre Lordes

global impact
Audre Lordes Transnational

Legacies
Edited by Stella Bolaki
and Sabine Broeck
Among the most influential and insightful thinkers

of her generation, Audre Lorde (19341992) inspired
readers and activists through her poetry, autobiography,
essays, and her political action. Most scholars have
situated her work within the context of the womens,
gay and lesbian, and black civil rights movements within
the United States. However, Lorde forged coalitions
with women in Europe, the Caribbean, Canada,
Australia, New Zealand, and Africa, and twenty years
after her passing, these alliances remain largely undocumented and unexplored.
Audre Lordes Transnational Legacies is the first book
to systematically document and thoroughly investigate
Lordes influence beyond the United States. Arranged
in three thematically interrelated sectionsArchives,
Connections, and Workthe volume brings together
scholarly essays, interviews, Lordes unpublished speech
about Europe, and personal reflections and testimonials
from key figures throughout the world. Using a range
of interdisciplinary approaches, contributors assess the
reception, translation, and circulation of Lordes writing
and activism within different communities, audiences,
and circles. They also shed new light on the work Lorde
inspired across disciplinary borders.
In addition the volume editors, contributors include
Sarah Cefai, Cassandra Ellerbe-Dueck, Paul M. Farber,
Tiffany N. Florvil, Katharina Gerund, Alexis Pauline
Gumbs, Gloria Joseph, Jackie Kay, Marion Kraft, Christiana Lambrinidis, Zeedah Meierhofer-Mangeli, Rina
Nissim, Chantal Oakes, Lester C. Olson, Pratibha Parmar, Peggy Piesche, Dagmar Schultz, Tamara Lea Spira,
and Gloria Wekker.
This volume beautifully and accurately documents

Lordes global imprint for our time. It is herstorical
and simultaneously contemporary.
Aishah Shahidah Simmons,
associate editor of The Feminist Wire
This volume of essays makes a critically important
contribution to Lorde scholarship on an international scale.
Maria I. Diedrich, author of Cornelia James
Cannon and the Future American Race
Stella Bolaki is lecturer in American

literature at the University of Kent and author
of Unsettling the Bildungsroman: Reading
Contemporary Ethnic American Womens Fiction.
Sabine Broeck is professor of American

studies at the University of Bremen in Germany
and author of White AmnesiaBlack Memory?:
American Womens Writing and History.
African American Studies / Gender & Sexuality

272 pp., 4 illus.
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-139-6
$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-138-9
July 2015
Winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry
Violin Playing Herself

in a Mirror
David Kutz-Marks
With rhetorical estrangements that recall John Ashbery,

and rhythms and ambitions that recall Wallace Stevens
and Walt Whitman, the voice in these poems is nonetheless distinct, aware that its own time is finitea
minor catarrh / after which the throat clears and its
nighttime againbut striving with each movement for
the sublime. The poems challenge our identities, our
thoughts, and our quarrels with each other as they dart
back and forth between interior spaces and real human
relationships.
We tend to turn to poetryas poetry itself

turnsto honor, investigate, propose, court,
grieve, and speculate, and all these things
happen with purpose in Violin Playing Herself
in a Mirror. With this book Kutz-Marks amplifies
what might have been and what might be.
Dara Wier, author of Hat on a Pond
The Juniper Prize for Poetry, established

in 1975, seeks fresh, innovative, accessible
voices in poetry. The award is named in
honor of poet Robert Francis, who for many
years lived at Fort Juniper, a tiny home of his
own construction, in Amherst, MA.
Submissions to the Juniper Prizes are accepted
between August 1 and September 30 annually.
Please see our website for details:
www.umass.edu/umpress/content/juniper-prizes.
Like a little mortal coil moonlighting as a halo /

trying to eat his own tail in a city with no other
light, the voice that propels David Kutz-Markss
Violin Playing Herself in a Mirror is tightly wound up
with potential energies that, when released, unfurl
into wildly kinetic verse.
Srikanth Reddy, Program in Poetry and Poetics at
the University of Chicago
David Kutz-Marks earned a BA in English

language and literature from the University of Chicago
and an MFA in creative writing from Columbia
University. He was recently the featured poet for Verse
Daily and The Paris-American, and his poems have
appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, Kenyon
Review Online, Western Humanities Review, Rattle, The
Carolina Quarterly, Devils Lake, and Meridian. KutzMarks lives in Dunmore, Pennsylvania, with his partner
and their two children.
Poetry
80 pp.
$15.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-148-8
March 2015
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Winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction
Desert sonorous
Stories
Sean Bernard
Undercover space aliens share an RV outside Tucson. A

high school girl tries to make sense of the shooting of
Gabby Giffords. Basketball fans stalk their teams head
coach. A young couple falls in and out of love over the
course of several lifetimes. And teenage cross-country
athletes run on and on through these ten stories set amid
the strange desert landscapes of the American Southwest.
Desert sonorous is a unique and energetic debut collection, blending realism with flashes of experimentation. Contemporary issuesimmigration, drought,
shootingshover above a cast of memorable characters in search of lifes deeper meanings. As they struggle along, comic and resigned, intelligent and quiet,
sad and frustrated, their strivings resound because
their lives are in so many ways our own.
This collection works by stealth, like alien lights
sweeping over a desert plain. Should we celebrate
Bernard as our newest bard of the desert? Yes, as
surely as America is on a remote 24/7 hum,
throbbing alongside its desert highways.
Edie Meidav, Juniper Prize for Fiction judge
and author of Lola, California
Sean Bernard, a graduate of the Iowa Writers

Workshop, is associate professor and director of the
undergraduate creative writing program at the University
of La Verne in Southern California and editor of the
literary journal Prism Review. His stories have appeared
in numerous literary magazines, including Santa
Monica Review, Glimmer Train, Gigantic, and LIT. He
has received fellowships and awards from the National
Endowment of the Arts, Poets and Writers, and the
University of Arizona Poetry Center.
These ten piercing cries coming from the

merciless furnace of the American Southwest
desert are haunting almost beyond description.
They palpably evoke the struggles of people in
the wilderness years when their potential is in
threat of being extinguished.
Kevin McIlvoy, author of The Complete History
of New Mexico: Stories and Hyssop
The Juniper Prize for Fiction, launched

in 2004, seeks book-length collections of
literary fiction, which can be novels or
collections of short stories and novellas.
Submissions to the Juniper Prizes are accepted
between August 1 and September 30 annually.
Please see our website for details:
www.umass.edu/umpress/content/juniper-prizes.
Fiction
200 pp.
$19.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-137-2
March 2015
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An anthology of primary documents that

reveal a different Jonathan Edwards
The Other Jonathan Edwards
Selected Writings on Society, Love, and Justice

Edited with an introduction by
Gerald McDermott and Ronald Story
A judicious and well-timed collection of primary

sources, introduced well, which reveals for students, general readers, and interested Christian
laity the other Jonathan Edwards, that is, the one
whose life was dedicated to sharing the love of
God, preaching social justice prophetically, and
promoting peace, harmony, and the welfare of
the needy in his own local communities and the
eighteenth-century Anglo-American world.
Douglas Sweeney, author of Nathaniel Taylor,
New Haven Theology, and the Legacy of
Jonathan Edwards
Gerald McDermott is Jordan-Trexler

Professor of Religion at Roanoke College and
co-author of The Theology of Jonathan Edwards.
ronald story is professor of history
Widely regarded as perhaps Americas greatest theologian, Jonathan Edwards still suffers the stereotype
of hellfire preacher obsessed with Gods wrath. In this
anthology, Gerald McDermott and Ronald Story seek
to correct that common view by showing that Edwards
was also a compassionate, socially conscious minister
of the first order.
Through a selection of sermons and primary writings, McDermott and Story reveal an Edwards who
preached love toward all humanity regardless of belief
or appearance; who demanded private and public charity to the poor; who criticized hard-hearted business
dealings as impious and socially destructive; and who
condemned envy and status-seeking as anti-Christian
and anti-community. This other Jonathan Edwards
preached about grace and the love of God but also
about responsive constitutional government, the iniquities of hypocrisy and corruption, and the nature of wise
leadership. He acknowledged the need for national
defense but left room for popular revolt from tyranny.
He anticipated a millennial age of peace and prosperity and believed that people should live in the world as
they would live through grace in heaven.
Jonathan Edwards was, in sum, a worldly as well
as spiritual reformer who resisted the materialistic,
acquisitive, and individualistic currents of American
culture. For these reasons, McDermott and Story think
he may have lessons to teach us today.
emeritus at the University of Massachusetts

Amherst and author of Jonathan Edwards and
the Gospel of Love (University of Massachusetts
Press, 2012).
Early American History / American Religion / American Studies
176 pp., 5 illus.
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-152-5
$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-151-8
June 2015
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Reevaluates the early history of American

medicine from the patients point of view
Patient Expectations
How Economics, Religion, and Malpractice

Shaped Therapeutics in Early America
Catherine L. Thompson
During the first half of the nineteenth century a major

shift occurred in the medical treatment of illness in
the United States, as physicians abandoned the use
of heroic depletive therapiesthe pukes and purges
made famous in the 1790s by Dr. Benjamin Rush of
Philadelphiain favor of a let-nature-take-its-course
approach to most diseases. Standard histories of
American medicine have long attributed this shift to
new theories and training methods as well as increased
competition from homeopaths and botanical doctors.
In this book, Catherine L. Thompson challenges that
interpretation by emphasizing the role of patients as
active participants in their own health care rather than
passive objects of medical treatment.
Focusing on Massachusetts, then as now a center
of U.S. medical education and practice, Thompson
draws on data from patients journals, medical account
ledgers, physicians daybooks, and court records to link
changes in medical treatment to a gradual evolution of
patient expectations across varied populations. Specifically, she identifies three developmentsthe increasing use of cash in medical transactions, growing religious pluralism, and the rise of malpractice suitsas
key factors in transforming patients into active medical
consumers unwilling to submit to doctors advice without considering alternatives.
By showing how nineteenth-century patients shaped
therapeutic practice through the medical choices they
made or didnt make, Thompsons study alters our
understanding of American medicine in the past and
has implications for its present and future.
Precise and powerful, wide-ranging and illuminating, Patient Expectations offers the first
patient-centered history of the transformation
of American medicine in the early Republic.
Thompson concludes that physicians made
far more limited use of heroic therapies than
historians have previously acknowledged and
that private practitioners in particular were
strikingly tolerant of self-medication and
alternative remedies.
Richard Bell, author of We Shall Be No More:
Suicide and Self-Government in the
Newly United States
Catherine L. Thompson is a lecturer in

history at the University of Connecticut.

192 pp.
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-159-4
$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-158-7
August 2015
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Explores the key role of Massachusetts

before, during, and after the Civil War
Massachusetts and
the Civil War
The Commonwealth and National Disunion

Edited by Matthew Mason,
Katheryn P. Viens, and
Conrad Edick Wright
I commend the individual authors for underscoring diversity, not uniformity, in the Massachusetts
experience and also for weaving a broad range of
historical actors, African Americans and women,
black and white, into their work.
John David Smith, author of We Ask Only For EvenHanded Justice: Black Voices from Reconstruction,
18651877 (University of Massachusetts Press, 2014)
Matthew Mason is associate professor

of history at Brigham Young University.
Katheryn P. Viens is research coordinator

at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Conrad Edick Wright is Worthington C.

Ford Editor and director of research at the
Massachusetts Historical Society and author
of Revolutionary Generation: Harvard Men and
the Consequences of Independence (University of
Massachusetts Press, 2005).
All states are not created equal, at least not when it

comes to their influence on American history. That
assumption underlies Massachusetts and the Civil War.
The volumes ten essays coalesce around the national
significance of Massachusetts through the Civil War
era, the ways in which the commonwealth reflected and
even modeled the Unions precarious but real wartime
unification, and the Bay States postwar return to the
schisms that predated the war. Rather than attempting
to summarize every aspect of the states contribution to
the wartime Union, the collection focuses on what was
distinctive about its influence during the great crisis of
national unity.
In the first section, The Opposition to Slavery,
essays by John Stauffer, Dean Grodzins, Peter Wirzbicki,
and Richard S. Newman demonstrate the central role
Massachusetts played in the rise of both the antislavery
movement and abolitionism. They show how slaverys
foes united, planned, and understood their cause, and
how they envisioned a postwar nation free of servitude.
In the second section, The War Years, Matthew Mason,
Carol Bundy, and Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino
Zboray investigate how the exigencies of war unified
the commonwealth across party lines and over the
distance between home and the front. In the final section, Reconciliation, Sarah J. Purcell, Amy Morsman,
and Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai probe postwar efforts to
recover from the wars profound disruptions.
Civil War / American History / New England History

312 pp., 10 illus.
$27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-150-1
$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-149-5
July 2015
Published in association with Massachusetts Historical Society
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How Massachusetts shaped Dickenss

view of America
Dickens and Massachusetts
The Lasting Legacy of the

Commonwealth Visits
Edited by Diana C. Archibald
and Joel J. Brattin
Charles Dickens traveled to North America twice,

in 1842 and twenty-five years later in 186768, and
on both trips Massachusetts was part of his itinerary. Although many aspects of his U.S. travels disappointed him, Massachusetts was the one state
that met and even exceeded Dickenss expectations
for the republic of [his] imagination. From the mills
of Lowell to the Perkins School for the Blind, it offered
an alternate vision of America that influenced his
future writings, while the deep and lasting friendships he formed with Bostonians gave him enduring
ties to the commonwealth.
This volume provides insight from leading scholars
who have begun to reassess the significance of Massachusetts in the authors life and work. The collection
begins with a broad biographical and historical overview taken from the full-length narrative of the awardwinning exhibition Dickens and Massachusetts: A Tale
of Power and Transformation, which attracted thousands of visitors while on display in Lowell. Abundant
images from the exhibition, many of them difficult
to find elsewhere, enhance the story of Dickenss relationship with the vibrant cultural and intellectual life
of Massachusetts. The second section includes essays
that consider the importance of Dickenss many connections to the commonwealth.
In addition to the volume editors, contributors
include Chelsea Bray, Iain Crawford, Andre DeCuir,
Natalie McKnight, Lillian Nayder, and Kit Polga.
This book fills an important gap in our understanding of Dickenss first trip to America.
Authored by some of the most highly respected
scholars in Dickens studies and including thorough and authoritative research, this volume
makes a timely and original contribution.
Nancy Aycock Metz, author of
The Companion to Martin Chuzzlewit
Diana C. Archibald is associate professor

of English at the University of Massachusetts
Lowell and author of Domesticity, Imperialism,
and Emigration in the Victorian Novel.
JOEL J. BRATTIN is professor of English at

Worcester Polytechnic Institute and author of
many works on Dickens.
Literary Studies / New England History

224 pp., 79 illus.
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-136-5
$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-135-8
May 2015
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How stories about scientists shape

popular understandingsand
misunderstandingsof science
Storytelling and Science
Rewriting Oppenheimer in the Nuclear Age

David K. Hecht
An original contribution to its field that opens the

way to similar studies of the public images of
other scientists and their science. Einstein and
relativity theory are obvious candidates for this
kind of analysis, as are popular accounts of such
scientific notions as the God particle and the
Big Bang.
David C. Cassidy, author of J. Robert
Oppenheimer and the American Century
David K. Hecht is assistant professor of

history at Bowdoin College.
American Studies / History of Science / Cold War

208 pp.
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-143-3
$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-142-6
May 2015
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No single figure embodies Cold War science more

than the renowned physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Although other scientists may have been more influential in establishing the institutions and policies of
the nuclear age, none has loomed larger in the popular
imagination than the father of the atomic bomb.
Americans have been drawn to the story of the Manhattan Project Oppenheimer helped lead and riveted
by the McCarthy-era politics that caught him in its
crosshairs. Journalists and politicians, writers and
artists have told Oppenheimers story in many different ways since he first gained notoriety in 1945. In
Storytelling and Science, David K. Hecht examines why
they did so, and what they hoped to achieve through
their stories.
From the outset, accounts of Oppenheimers life
and work were deployed for multiple ends: to trumpet
or denigrate the value of science, to settle old scores
or advocate new policies, to register dissent or express
anxieties. In these different renditions, Oppenheimer
was alternately portrayed as hero and villain, establishment figure and principled outsider, destroyer of
worlds and humanist critic. Yet beneath the varying
details of these stories, Hecht discerns important patterns in the way that audiences interpret, and often
misinterpret, news about science. In the end, he
argues, we find that science itself has surprisingly
little to do with how its truths are assimilated by the
public. Instead its meaning is shaped by narrative traditions and myths that frame how we think and write
about it.

Science/Technology/Culture
How sharing ideas and interests

transformed early Modern Europe
Forms of Association
Making Publics in Early Modern Europe

Edited by Paul Yachnin and
Marlene Eberhart
In todays connected and interactive world, it is hard to
imagine a time when cultural and intellectual interests
did not lead people to associate with others who shared
similar views and preoccupations. In this volume of
essays, fifteen scholars explore how these kinds of relationships began to transform early modern European
culture.
Forms of Association grows out of the Making Publics: Media, Markets, and Association in Early Modern
Europe (MaPs) project, funded by the Social Sciences
and Humanities Research Council of Canada. This
scholarly initiative convened an interdisciplinary
research team to consider how publicsnew forms of
association built on the shared interests of individuals
developed in Europe from 1500 to 1700. Drawing on a
wide array of texts and histories, including the plays of
Shakespeare, the legend of Robin Hood, paintings, and
music as well as English gossip about France, the contributors develop a historical account of what publics
were in early modern Europe. This collaborative study
provides a dynamic way of understanding the political
dimensions of artistic and intellectual works and opens
the way toward a new history of early modernity.
Until his death in 2008, the great Renaissance
scholar Richard Helgerson was a key participant in the
MaPs project. The scholars featured in this volume
originally met in Montreal to engage in a critical, commemorative conversation about Helgersons work, the
issues and questions coming out of the MaPs project,
and how Helgersons thinking advanced and could in
turn be advanced by MaPs. This collection represents
the fruits of that conversation.

Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture
With the overall high quality of the essays, the significant voices that are addressing the issues, and
the direction forward that it suggests for work in
the early modern period, this is an excellent collection and a valuable publication for scholars.
Shannon Miller, San Jose State University
Each of the fifteen essays has something
interesting to say, and many are conceptually
sophisticated, stimulating, and highly original.
Malcom Smuts,
University of Massachusetts Boston
Paul Yachnin is Tomlinson Professor

of Shakespeare Studies and director of the
Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas
at McGill University.
Marlene Eberhart is on the music

faculty at Vanier College and humanities
faculty at Dawson College in Montreal.
British and European History / Cultural Studies

368 pp., 20 illus.
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-167-9
$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-166-2
May 2015
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Ten artists re-present the legacy of Du Bois
Du Bois in Our Time
University Museum of Contemporary Art

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Throughout his long and highly productive life . . .

W. E. B. Du Bois supported human dignity, civil
rights, and social justice. Every interest or issue
that he pursuedand there were manyrevolved
around these three core ideals. The ten artists
who participated in this exhibition have given
powerful visual currency to Du Boiss legacy.
Together they invite us into conversations about
the range and multiplicity of issues and interests
that Du Bois cared about and struggled to affect.
Dr. Johnnetta Cole
Scholar, author, editor, teacher, reformer, and civil rights

leader, W. E. B. Du Bois was a deeply influential figure in
American life and one of the earliest proponents of equality for African Americans. He was a founder and leader of
the Niagara Movement, the NAACP, and the Pan-African
Movement; a progenitor of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance; an advocate of anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism,
unionism, and equality for women; and a champion of
the rights of oppressed people around the world.
To mark the fiftieth anniversary of Du Boiss death,
the University Museum of Contemporary Art at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst commissioned ten
leading artists from the United States, Canada, and West
Africa to create original work that reflects on Du Boiss
legacy and reconsiders him in light of todays issues. In
all, ten artists delved into the vast Du Bois archives at
UMass Amherst and consulted with Du Bois scholars
both on and off campus as they conceived their work.
The new pieces created by Radcliffe Bailey, Mary Evans,
Brendan Fernandes, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Julie Mehretu,
Ann Messner, Jefferson Pinder, Tim Rollins and KOS,
Mickalene Thomas, and Carrie Mae Weems were displayed in an exhibition titled Du Bois in Our Time.
The range of artworks they produced is astounding
including photography, painting, sculpture, works on
paper, video installations, as well as a proposal to create
a memorial garden in honor of Du Bois. This catalog
contains selected images from the exhibition, statements
from the artists testifying to the inspiration and impact
Du Bois has had on their lives and work, essays by
Johnnetta Cole, James T. Campbell, Reiland Rabaka, and
Bill Strickland, and an introduction by Loretta Yarlow,
director of the University Gallery.
Art History / Literature

200 pp., 160 color and 40 black and white illus.
$40.00t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-134-1
Available
Distributed for University of Massachusetts Boston
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An engaging history of Bostons

only public university
UMass Boston at 50
A Fiftieth Anniversary History of the University

of Massachusetts Boston
Michael D. Feldberg
The social upheaval of the 1960s ushered in lasting

change across the country, prompted, in part, by major
civil rights and anti-poverty legislation, a record number
of students seeking college degrees, and the expansion
of land-grant public universities into urban centers.
Guided by an idealism and ambition characteristic of
the time, the University of Massachusetts Boston held
its first classes in 1965. In a city that prided itself on
being the birthplace of American public education but
remained the exclusive preserve of private universities,
UMass Bostons founders set their sights on creating a
great public urban university that would stand with
the city and provide students of all ethnicities, ages,
and social classes with opportunities equal to the best.
Richly illustrated and enlivened by reminiscences
and profiles, UMass Boston at 50 tells the remarkable
coming-of-age story of an institution that has consistently defied the odds, risen to the occasion, and served
tens of thousands of students, from Vietnam veterans
to students with roots in more than 150 countries. The
university that opened in a half-renovated gas company
building in downtown Boston now enjoys a reputation
for wide-ranging, innovative research and service and
holds steadfastly to its mission and its teaching soul.
UMass Boston at 50 also tells of the universitys ambitious plans to become the preeminent student-centered
urban public university of the twenty-first century.
UMass Boston at 50 is the story of a university

that couldand does. From humble beginnings,
the University of Massachusetts Boston has
grown to become a leading urban research
university, opening countless doors of
opportunity for its students, contributing to the
discovery of new knowledge, and serving
communities at home and around the world.
UMass Boston at 50 tells how a fledgling public
universityalone in a city of private
universitiesfound its wings and took flight.
And how it plans to soar to even greater heights.
Chancellor J. Keith Motley
Michael d. Feldberg is executive

director and senior scholar at the George
Washington Institute for Religious Freedom
and research faculty associate at the Center
for American Political Studies at Harvard
University. He has published extensively in the
fields of American history and criminal justice.
New England History / Education

220 pp., 250 illus.
$29.95t hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-169-3
Available
Distributed for University of Massachusetts Boston
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BACKLIST
Selected
Listed below are recent titles, organized by subject matter for your convenience. Additional information on
more than 1,100 publications from the UMass Press is available at our website: www.umass.edu/umpress.
ART, ARCHITECTURE,
AND DESIGN
Isaiah Rogers
Architectural Practice in
Antebellum America
James F. OGorman
[A] substantial book by a major scholar,
splendidly written.Michael L. Lewis
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-62534-122-8
336 pp., 86 illus., February 2015
Civic Art
A Centennial History of the

U.S. Commission of Fine Arts
Edited by Thomas
E. Luebke
Luebkes book immediately joins the shortlist of essential texts about Washington
design and architecture.Washington Post
Arthur A. Shurcliff
Design, Preservation, and the Creation

of the Colonial Williamsburg Landscape
Elizabeth Hope Cushing

[A] singularly important contribution to
the literature concerning what I believe is
still our least understood period of urban
landscape architecture.
Gary R. Hilderbrand
$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-039-9
312 pp., 149 black-and-white illus., 2014
Published in association with Library of American
Landscape History
John Nolen, Landscape

Architect and City Planner
R. Bruce Stephenson
The long overdue and definitive biography

of one of Americas most prominent and
influential urbanists.Keith N. Morgan
$85.00 cloth, ISBN 978-0-16-089702-3

636 pp., 424 color & 496 black-and-white illus., 2013
Distributed for U.S. Commission of Fine Arts
$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-079-5

368 pp., 190 illus., 2014
Landscape History
Creating a World on Paper
Community by Design
Harry Fenns Career in Art
Sue Rainey
Winner of the Ewell L. Newman Award of the
American Historical Print Collectors Society
Fenns significance is fully realized in this

study.William H. Gerdts
$49.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-979-9
408 pp., 58 color and 150 black-and-white illus., 2013
The Olmsted Firm and the Development

of Brookline, Massachusetts
Keith N. Morgan, Elizabeth Hope

Cushing, and Roger G. Reed
Winner of the Ruth Emery Award from the
Victorian Society in America
A beautifully produced volume on the

coming of age of suburban development.
A Genius for Place
$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-976-8

320 pp., 132 illus., 2013
Landscape History
Robin Karson
The Best Planned City

in the World
American Landscapes of the Country

Place Era
Winner of the John Brinkerhoff Jackson Book Prize
of the Foundation for Landscape Studies
The most important book on American

gardens for at least a decade, this giant tome
spans the first 40 years of the 20th
century.London Telegraph
$29.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-048-1
456 pp., 483 duotone illus., 2013
Landscape History
Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo Park System
Francis R. Kowsky
Winner of the John Brinkerhoff Jackson Book Prize
of the Foundation for Landscape Studies
As a physical object, The Best Planned City

in the World has a beauty worthy of its
subject.Site/Lines
$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-006-1
272 pp., 118 color and 110 black-and-white illus., 2013
Landscape History
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AMERICAN STUDIES
Thrift
The History of an American Cultural

Movement
Andrew L. Yarrow
A compelling story that hasnt been told
before.Lawrence B. Glickman
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-132-7
248 pp., 36 illus., 2014
Medical Encounters
Knowledge and Identity in
Early American Literatures
Kelly Wisecup
Provides a new lens through which we
can see moments of cultural encounter
rich with information.Kristina Bross
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-057-3
272 pp., 7 illus., 2013
Liberals, the Left, and the Fight against

Fascism in the United States
Christopher Vials
A game-changer for those interested in the
f word (fascism).Doug Rossinow
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-130-3
296 pp., 7 illus., 2014
A Cold War State of Mind
Brainwashing and Postwar American

Society
Matthew W. Dunne
Provides a fascinating framework for
understanding . . . Cold War consensus in
postwar America.Robert A. Jacobs
$27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-041-2
296 pp., 15 illus., 2013
The Ocean Is a Wilderness
Citizenship in Cold War

America
Guy Chet
Andrea Friedman
Atlantic Piracy and the Limits of State

Authority, 16881856
An interesting, well written, and wellconceived book.Trevor Burnard
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-085-6
178 pp., 2014
Jonathan Edwards and the

Gospel of Love
Ronald Story
Story recognizes that the profundities

of Edwardss theology are what make
Edwards extraordinary.
American Historical Review
The National Security State and the

Possibilities of Dissent
A very polished, well-argued book.
Laura McEnaney
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-068-9
288 pp., 15 illus., 2014
American Immunity
War Crimes and the Limits of

International Law
Patrick Hagopian
An impressive, wide-ranging, multilayered work.Kendrick Oliver
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-983-6

184 pp., 2012
$27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-047-4

256 pp., 2013
One Colonial Womans World
The Life and Writings of Mehetabel

Chandler Coit
Kent State
Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties
Michelle Marchetti Coughlin
Thomas M. Grace
The thoroughness and the thoughtfulness

that she brings to her study are exemplary.
New England Quarterly
There is nothing else like it. Its must

reading.Van Gosse
$27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-967-6

288 pp., 14 Illus., 2012
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Haunted by Hitler
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-111-2

400 pp., 12 illus., June 2015
The Reverend Jacob Bailey,

Maine Loyalist
Forever Vietnam
For God, King, Country, and for Self
How a Divisive War Changed

American Public Memory
James S. Leamon
David Kieran
An informative, engaging study. . . . A

worthy successor to Leamons awardwinning Revolution Downeast.
Joseph A. Conforti
Advances a bold and original argument.

Patrick Hagopian
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-942-3

272 pp., 10 illus., 2012
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-100-6

320 pp., 16 illus., 2014
The Pro-War Movement
Domestic Support for the Vietnam War

and the Making of Modern American
Conservatism
Sandra Scanlon
A definitive history of how . . . the conservative movement developed a complex
and variegated response to the conflict.
Gregory L. Schneider
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-018-4
352 pp., 2013
What We Have Done
An Oral History of the Disability Rights

Movement
Fred Pelka
So many need this account that no library
or bookseller can afford to be without it.
ForeWord
$29.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-919-5
656 pp., 33 illus., 2012
Expanding the Strike Zone

Baseball in the Age of Free Agency
Daniel A. Gilbert
Winner of the Society for American Baseball
Research Book Award for Outstanding Research
An interesting, smart, and informative

book.Daniel A. Nathan
$22.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-997-3
224 pp., 15 illus., 2013
The Second Amendment

on Trial
Critical Essays on District of
Columbia v. Heller
Edited by Saul Cornell and

Nathan Kozuskanich
Should appeal not only to legal scholars

and law students, but also to historians,
political scientists, and sociologists.
Lawrence Rosenthal
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-995-9
456 pp., 2013
Reclaiming American Cities

The Struggle for People, Place, and
Nature since 1900
Rutherford H. Platt
A sophisticated, thorough, and comprehensive history of city planning in the United
States over the last 125 years.Alex Marshall
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-050-4
312 pp., 41 illus., 2013
PUBLIC HISTORY
Alice Morse Earle and the
Domestic History of Early
America
Susan Reynolds Williams
Shows beautifully that Earle had the power

to make change simply through the act of
remembering.Journal of American History
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-988-1
336 pp., 40 illus., 2013
Public History in Historical Perspective
Remembering the Revolution

Memory, History, and Nation Making
from Independence to the Civil War
Edited by Michael A. McDonnell,

Clare Corbould, Frances M. Clarke,
and W. Fitzhugh Brundage
How memories shape political culture.

$27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-033-7
344 pp., 2013
The Spirit of 1976
Commerce, Community, and the

Politics of Commemoration
Tammy S. Gordon
Raises important issues regarding the study
of public uses of the past.John Bodnar
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-043-6
192 pp., 8 illus., 2013
The Wages of History
Emotional Labor on Public Historys

Front Lines
Amy M. Tyson
Tyson advances a new perspective to consider when assessing living history interpretation for appropriateness, effectiveness, and
viability. . . . Essential.Choice
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-024-5
240 pp., 10 illus., 2013
A Living Exhibition
The Smithsonian and the Transformation

of the Universal Museum
William S. Walker
Walkers exploration of the Smithsonians
attempts to balance universality and specificity allow for an insightful discussion of the
debates engaging museum professionals
today. Recommended.Choice
$27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-026-9
304 pp., 20 illus., 2013
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Museums, Monuments,
and National Parks
Toward a New Genealogy of Public History
Denise D. Meringolo
Winner of the National Council on
Public History Book Award
In this richly researched book, Meringolo situates the birth of a new fieldpublic history
decades before the postwar emergence of a recognized subfield.Journal of American History
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-940-9
256 pp., 12 illus., 2012
History Is Bunk
We Ask Only for Even-Handed

Justice
Black Voices from Reconstruction,
18651877
John David Smith

Rich in summary insight.Choice
$18.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-087-0
152 pp., 20 illus., 2014
For Jobs and Freedom
Selected Speeches and Writings of

A. Philip Randolph
Assembling the Past at Henry Fords

Greenfield Village
Edited by Andrew
Jessie Swigger
I give it my strongest endorsement.

John H. Bracey Jr.
What makes this book so original is its

comprehensive sweep.Howard Segal
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-078-8
232 pp., 20 illus., 2014
Memories of Buenos Aires
Signs of State Terrorism in Argentina
Memoria Abierta
Edited with an introduction by
Max Page
Epilogue by Ilan
Stavans
Robert
Translated by Karen
An interpretive guide to sites of terror.

$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-010-8
304 pp., 328 color illus., 62 maps, 2013
Born in the U.S.A.
Birth, Commemoration, and American

Public Memory
Edited by
Seth C. Bruggeman
This enterprising inquiry is very

engaging.Public Historian
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-938-6
296 pp., 12 illus., 2012
Remembering the
Forgotten War
The Enduring Legacies of the

U.S.Mexican War
Michael Scott Van Wagenen

Honorable Mention, National Council on Public
History Book Award
An important book with implications

for both American foreign policy and
U.S.Latin America relations today.
Amy S. Greenberg
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-930-0
368 pp., 30 illus., 2012
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BLACK STUDIES
and
E. Kersten
David Lucander
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-116-7

376 pp., 11 illus., January 2015
SOSCalling All Black People

A Black Arts Movement Reader
Edited by John H. Bracey Jr.,

Sonia Sanchez, and James Smethurst
An amazing teaching and research tool.

Amy Abugo Ongiri
$34.95, ISBN 978-1-62534-031-3
688 pp., 2014
Tragic No More
Mixed-Race Women and the Nexus

of Sex and Celebrity
Caroline A. Streeter
An exciting project, with great potential.
Heidi Ardizzone
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-985-0
176 pp., 5 illus., 2012
The World of W. E. B. Du Bois

A Quotation Sourcebook
Edited by Meyer
Weinberg
with a new introduction by
John H. Bracey Jr.

An impressive variety of topics.
Journal of American History
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-990-4
296 pp., 2013
From Storefront to Monument

Tracing the Public History of the
Black Museum Movement
Andrea A. Burns
There has been no comparable work that
offers an overarching history of the black
museum movement as an important
political movement.Renee Romano
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-035-1
264 pp., 10 illus., 2013
NATIVE AMERICAN
STUDIES
FICTION and POETRY
Living with Whales
Stories
Documents and Oral Histories of Native

New England Whaling History
Edited by Nancy
Shoemaker
Demonstrates the importance of whaling,

and connections to the sea generally, among
New England and Long Island Indians from
ancient times up to the present.
David J. Silverman
$19.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-081-8
232 pp., 23 illus., 2014
Native Americans of the Northeast
Good News from New

England by Edward Winslow
A Scholarly Edition
Kelly Wisecup
A wonderful selection of texts, nicely placed
in context by an informative editors
introduction.Jenny Pulsipher
$19.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-083-2
192 pp., 7 illus., 2014
Making War and Minting

Christians
Masculinity, Religion, and Colonialism

in Early New England
R. Todd Romero
Bewildered
Carla Panciera
Winner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction
Pancieras first foray into fiction is a

strong debut.Publishers Weekly
$24.95t jacketed hardbound edition,
ISBN 978-1-62534-133-4
184 pp, 2014
Published in cooperation with Association of
Writers and Writing Programs
The Theme of Tonights Party

Has Been Changed
Poems
Dana Roeser
A tour de force, a book of startling, almost

dizzying, juxtapositions, wide in scope and
deep in feeling.Elizabeth Spires
$15.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-097-9
88 pp., 2014
A History of Hands
A Novel
Rod Val Moore

This sad, odd, thrilling novel is unlike

anything Ive ever read.Noy Holland
$19.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-096-2
240 pp., 2014
A nuanced and lively rereading of a time

period that can often feel well traveled. As
Romero convincingly shows, gendered
language appeared everywhere, from the
opening moments of English colonization of
New England through King Philips War and
even beyond.Catholic History Review
Everyone Here Has a Gun
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-888-4

272 pp., 11 illus., 2011
$24.95t jacketed hardbound edition,

ISBN 978-1-62534-053-5
176 pp., 2013
Published in cooperation with Association of
Writers and Writing Programs
The People of the Standing

Stone
The Oneida Nation from the Revolution

through the Era of Removal
Karim M. Tiro
Traces the Oneidas struggles with the
American Revolution and its aftermath.
. . . Tiro sees the Oneidas as important actors
in this dark chapter in their history without
denying that American colonialism put
serious restrictions on their options. Tiro
is to be applauded for this balance and
nuance.Journal of the Early Republic
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-890-7
256 pp., 15 illus., 2011
Stories
Lucas Southworth
A truly unique and memorable reading

experience.Dan Chaon
The Agriculture Hall of Fame

Stories
Andrew Malan Milward

Winner of the ForeWord Firsts Award
The 10 gorgeous stories . . . offer unique

glimpses into Midwestern calamities and
the folks who find themselves affected by
them. . . . In Milwards world, theres nary a
sunny sky in sight . . . but this gloominess is
greatly buoyed by the authors poetic prose
and a pitch-perfect eye for detail, resulting
in one tender, tragic portrait after another.
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
$19.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-948-5
160 pp., 2012
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My Escapee
Stories
Corinna Vallianatos
With the spare, definitive strokes of Matisses

late portraits, the stories in My Escapee hew
precisely to the truth, while rendering a series
of expressive and particular female lives. The
characters are disoriented, vulnerable, at times
dependent on others; they are also determined,
defiant, passionate.Jhumpa Lahiri
$24.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-986-7
176 pp., 2012
Published in cooperation with Association of Writers
and Writing Programs
Some Kinds of Love

Stories
Steve Yates
Some Kinds of Love is nothing short of

masterful.Ben Fountain
$19.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-028-3
272 pp., 6 illus., 2013
Starship Tahiti
Poems
Brandon Dean Lamson

LITERARY AND
CULTURAL STUDIES
Renaissance Reflections
Selected Essays
Arthur F. Kinney
The topical range is remarkable, the erudition on display extensive.Valerie Traub
$34.95 jacketed hardbound edition,
ISBN 978-1-62534-064-1
500 pp., 27 illus., 2014
Distributed for Vern Associates
Transatlantic Romanticism
British and American Art and Literature,

17901860
Edited by Andrew
and
Hemingway
Alan Wallach
A cogent and stimulating series of

reflections.Brian Lukacher
ISBN 978-1-62534-114-3
312 pp., 24 color and 53 black-and-white illus.,
January 2015
The Saloon and the Mission
Addiction, Conversion, and the Politics

of Redemption in American Culture
Eoin F. Cannon
To be a teacher in a prison, as Brandon

Lamson shows us in these grave and unsettling
poems, is to take on something akin to the role
of Virgil in the Divine Comedy. . . . Starship
Tahiti is an outstanding debut.David Wojahn
This is a fresh approach to familiar

conceptsevangelical Christianity,
alcoholism, individualism, and liberalism.
Recommended.Choice
$15.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-009-2

72 pp., 2013
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-993-5

328 pp., 8 illus., 2013
Goodbye, Flicker
A Bold and Hardy Race of Men
Poems
Carmen Gimnez Smith
The Lives and Literature of American

Whalemen
Jennifer Schell
Less Wonderland than looking glass, a

gateway into which our reluctant story-teller
must escape but in which, also, we cant help
but see ourselves.Booklist
Honorable Mention John Lyman Book Award in

Maritime History
$15.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-949-2

80 pp., 2012
A rich and intriguing book that brings a

different perspective to our understanding
of American whalemen.
Mary K. Bercaw Edwards
Girls in Trouble
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-020-7

280 pp., 2013
Douglas Light
A Kiss from Thermopylae
Stories
In this kaleidoscopic collection of thirteen

short stories . . . Light deftly explores the
rocky terrain of human emotion. . . . [He]
probes beneath complex layers of what it
means to be alive, revealing the occasionally
magnificent terrain of selfhood.ForeWord
Emily Dickinson and Law
James R. Guthrie
Establishes beyond doubt the importance
of legal reasoning to Dickinsons poetry.
Gary Stonum
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-113-6
272 pp., January 2015
$24.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-923-2

144 pp., 2011
Published in cooperation with Association of Writers
& Writing Programs (AWP)
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Suburban Plots
Cultural Considerations
Maura DAmore
Joan Shelley Rubin
Refines our critical attitudes toward

gendered activities, labor, authorship, and
domesticity.Martin Breckner
A masterful blending of big-picture

historical synthesis with vividly rendered
debates and episodes related to the higher
registers of the culture industry.
Thomas Augst
Men at Home in Nineteenth-Century

American Print Culture
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-095-5

208 pp., 12 illus., 2014
The Art of Prestige
The Formative Years at Knopf, 19151929
Amy Root Clements

This is the first book-length scholarly study
of Knopf, and it provides an excellent account
of [its] early development.Gordon Neavill
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-093-1
224 pp., 2014
Boxcar Politics
The Hobo in U.S. Culture and Literature,

18691956
John Lennon
Treats the central issues of race and gender,
as well as class, with great clarity and
intelligence.Todd DePastino
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-120-4
232 pp, 3 illus., 2014
Essays on Readers, Writers, and

Musicians in Postwar America
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-014-6

208 pp., 2013
Underground Movements
Modern Culture on the New York City

Subway
Sunny Stalter-Pace
A stimulating and impressive book. . . . Its
interdisciplinary breadth is admirable.
Hsuan Hsu
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-055-9
240 pp., 4 Illus., 2013
Thinking Outside the Book

Augusta Rohrbach
A searching reconsideration of the terms

we use in talking about books.
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-126-6
180 pp, 15 illus., 2014
A Question of Sex
History Repeating Itself
Kristan Poirot
Gregory M. Pfitzer
Alive to contradictions in feminist justice

projects and their rhetorics.
Lisa Maria Hogeland
A magnificent piece of historical research

and writing.Leslie Howsam
Feminism, Rhetoric, and Differences

That Matter
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-089-4

184 pp., 2014
Lessons from Sarajevo

A War Stories Primer
Jim Hicks
Engaging, provocative, well researched, and
incredibly useful. Hickss sense of history is
both deeply informed and extremely
nuanced.Ammiel Alcalay
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-001-6
216 pp., 26 illus., 2013
Negotiating Culture
Heritage, Ownership, and
Intellectual Property
Edited by Laetitia
La Follette
Forces a reevaluation of thinking about

cultural disputes.Patty Gerstenblith
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-008-5
216 pp., 2013
The Republication of Childrens Historical

Literature and the Christian Right
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-124-2

328 pp., 25 illus., 2014
Lies About My Family

A Memoir
Amy Hoffman
The tales in this book, replete with conflicting versions and impeccable comic timing,
have clearly been refined over multiple generations. Hoffman is at her hilarious best.
Alison Bechdel
$22.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-003-0
168 pp., 10 illus., 2013
Out of Brownsville
Encounters with Novel Laureates and

Other Jewish Writers: A Cultural Memoir
Jules Chametzky
A raconteurs timing and wit leaven the
authors perceptive literary intelligence.
Michael Thelwell
$19.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-036-8
160 pp., 2013
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JOURNALISM AND
DIGITAL MEDIA
Happily Sometimes After
Discovering Stories from Twelve

Generations of an American Family
Andie Tucher
A highly original and wonderfully written
book.Kathy Roberts Forde
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-128-0
328 pp., 14 illus., 2014
Covering America
A Narrative History of a Nations Journalism
Christopher B. Daly
Winner of the PROSE Book Award for Media and
Cultural Studies
In this scholarly yet readable volume, Daly

presents a surprisingly spirited and detailed
account of American journalism.
Publishers Weekly
ISBN 978-1-55849-911-9
544 pp., 73 illus., 2012
NEW ENGLAND
Meetinghouses of Early
New England
Peter Benes
Winner of the Cummings Prize of the Vernacular

Architecture Forum
Winner of the Kniffen Award of the Pioneer
America Society
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
An indispensable guide to the relationship

between religion and material culture in
early America.Choice
$49.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-910-2
456 pp., 130 illus., 2012
Jonathan Edwards and the

Gospel of Love
Ronald Story
A fresh look at one of Americas greatest

theologians. One of the most elegantly
written books on Edwards I have ever
encountered.Gerald R. McDermott
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-983-6
184 pp., 2012
The Wired City
Lovewells Fight
Dan Kennedy
Robert E. Cray
Transcends the exhausting debate over what

journalism startups should look like. It gets
at a more fundamental point: that news
startups, both for-profit and nonprofit,
matter.Columbia Journalism Review
How a failed military operation in early

America became New Englands Alamo.
Reimagining Journalism and Civic Life

in the Post-Newspaper Age
$22.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-005-4

192 pp., 2013
Writing the Record
The Village Voice and the Birth of Rock

Criticism
Devon Powers
A pioneering work.American Prospect
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-012-2
176 pp., 2013
War, Death, and Memory in Borderland

New England
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-107-5

230 pp., 2014
Rebels in Paradise
Sketches of Northampton Abolitionists
Bruce Laurie
A lively, lucid, and eminently readable
study.Christopher Clark
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-118-1
Northern Hospitality
Cooking by the Book in New England
American Popular Music
Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald
From the Dance Hall to

Facebook
Stavely and Fitzgerald have crafted a richly

contextualized critical anthology of New
Englands food heritage. . . . Well done and
highly recommended for foodies and historians.Library Journal
Shayla Thiel-Stern
$29.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-861-7

488 pp., 22 illus., 2011
Teen Girls, Mass Media, and Moral Panic

in the United States, 19052010
Makes an absolutely convincing argument
that the mainstream news media has a part
in creating and perpetuating moral panics
about girls.Sarah Banet-Weiser
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-091-7
216 pp., 6 Illus., 2014
Gateway to Vacationland
The Making of Portland, Maine
John F. Bauman
An extremely well researched overview of
Portlands history.Michael J. Rawson
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-909-6
304 pp., 22 illus., 2012
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Investment Management
in Boston
A History
David Grayson Allen
ENVIRONMENTAL
STUDIES
A highly valuable study.Edwin Perkins
Second Nature
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-103-7

Published in association with Massachusetts
Historical Society
Richard W. Judd
Bostons Cycling Craze,

18801900
A Story of Race, Sport, and Society
Lorenz J. Finison
A compelling morality tale.Thomas Whalen
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-074-0
312 pp., 17 illus., 2014
A Peoples History of the

New Boston
An Environmental History of
New England
Beautifully written . . . both scholarly
and accessible.Dona Brown
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-066-5
344 pp., 2014
Environmental History of the Northeast
Cape Cod
An Environmental History of a Fragile

Ecosystem
John T. Cumbler
Vrabel tells many stories with economy and

skill.Robert Allison
No other history of Cape Cod offers the

contextually rich interweaving of the
regions environmental, economic, social,
and cultural transformations.
Anthony N. Penna
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-076-4

288 pp., 16 illus., 2014
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-109-9

296 pp., 14 illus., 2014
Town Meeting
Environmental History of the Northeast
Jim Vrabel
Practicing Democracy in Rural

New England
Donald L. Robinson
An admirable attempt to give insight into a
distinctively American form of local
governance that remains vibrant in the 21st
century.Choice
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-855-6
288 pp., 24 illus., 2011
Boston
Voices and Visions

Edited by
Shaun OConnell
It will be the very rare reader who wont find

[at least one selection] strikingly unfamiliar.
Boston Globe
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-820-4
352 pp., 2010
UMass Rising
The University of Massachusetts Amherst

at 150
Katharine Greider
A lively, well-illustrated history of the
university on its sesquicentennial.
$29.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-989-8
240 pp., 135 color illus., 9" x 11.5" format, 2013
Distributed for University of Massachusetts Amherst
The Alewives Tale
The Life History and Ecology of River

Herring in the Northeast
Barbara Brennessel
The reader will find all the information
that is available, neatly packaged, on
alewives and herring.Daniel Pauly
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-105-1
184 pp., 17 illus., 2014
Grasses of the Northeast

A Manual of the Grasses of New
England and Adjacent New York
Dennis W. Magee
With companion DVD-ROM
A definitive guide to the varieties of grasses

growing in the Northeast
$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-098-6
256 pp., 269 illus., DVD-ROM, 2014
Tidal Wetlands Primer
An Introduction to Their Ecology,

Natural History, Status, and
Conservation
Ralph W. Tiner
An authoritative guide to the ecology
of tidal wetlands in North America
$39.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-022-1
536 pp., 166 illus., 2013
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series
American Popular Music
Edited by Jeffrey Melnick and Rachel Rubin (University of Massachusetts Boston), this series includes
concise, well written, classroom-friendly books that are accessible to general readers.
Edited by Christian G. Appy (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Edwin A. Martini (Western
Michigan University), this highly regarded series has produced a wide range of books that reexamine the
Cold War as a distinct historical epoch, focusing on the relationship between culture and politics.
Environmental History of the NorthEast
The aim of this new series is to explore, from different critical perspectives, the environmental history of
the Northeast, including New England, eastern Canada, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Series
editors are Anthony N. Penna (Northeastern University) and Richard W. Judd (University of Maine).
Grace Paley Prize
Since 1990 the Press has published the annual winner of the AWP Award in Short Fiction competition,
now called the Grace Paley Prize. The $5,500 award is sponsored by the Association of Writers & Writing
Programs (AWP), an organization that includes over 500 colleges and universities with a strong commitment to teaching creative writing.
Juniper Prizes
Established in 1975, the Juniper Prize for Poetry is awarded annually and carries a $1,500 prize in addition to publication. The Juniper Prize for Fiction was established in 2004 and also carries a $1,500 prize.
Distinguished writers select the winners.
Library of American Landscape History
The Press publishes a range of titles in association with LALH, an Amherst-based nonprofit organization
that develops books and exhibitions about North American landscapes and the people who created them.
Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture
Edited by Arthur F. Kinney (University of Massachusetts Amherst), the series embraces substantive critical
and scholarly works that significantly advance and refigure our knowledge of Tudor and Stuart England.
Books in this series examine the diverse cultures and histories of the Indian peoples of New England, the
Middle Atlantic states, eastern Canada, and the Great Lakes region. Series editors are Colin Calloway (Dartmouth College), Jean M. OBrien (University of Minnesota), and Lisa T. Brooks (Amherst College).
Edited by Marla R. Miller (University of Massachusetts Amherst), this series explores how representations of the past have been mobilized to serve a variety of political, cultural, and social ends.
This interdisciplinary series seeks to publish engaging books that illuminate the role of science and technology in American life and culture. Series editors are Carolyn de la Pea (University of California Davis)
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A substantial list of books on the history of print culture, authorship, reading, writing, printing, and publishing. The series editorial board includes Greg Barnhisel (Duquesne University), Robert A. Gross (University of Connecticut), Joan Shelley Rubin (University of Rochester), and Michael Winship (University of
Texas at Austin).
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A probing biography of a controversial

The Most Dangerous

A Biography of Herbert Aptheker

When J. Edgar Hoover declared Herbert Aptheker the

In an afterword, Bettina Aptheker adds to

Gary Murrell is professor of history at

American History / African American Studies

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The experiences of a single college class as

The Yale College Class of 1960 and a

Daniel Horowitz is Mary Huggins

How did the 1950s become The Sixties? This is the

American History / American Studies

university of massachusetts press . spring/summer 2015 . www.umass.edu/umpress

The impact of the 1965 Immigration Act

The New Bostonians

How Immigrants Have Transformed

Among the most consequential pieces of Great Society

Many researchers and scholars have hinted at,

Marilynn S. Johnson is professor

American History / New England History

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A revealing portrait of reading in the

What Middletown Read

Print Culture in an American Small City

This book makes an extremely important

Frank Felsenstein is Reed D. Voran

The discovery of a large cache of circulation records

a volume in the series

university of massachusetts press . spring/summer 2015 . www.umass.edu/umpress

The untold story of segregation

State Parks and Jim Crow in the

During the 1930s, the state park movement and the

OBriens book addresses the omission of race

William E. OBrien is associate professor

a volume in the series

Landscape Architecture / American History

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The first book-length history of the

The Sarajevo Olympics

A History of the 1984 Winter Games

Few human enterprises blend light and darkness

An independent scholar and freelance

To most observers, the 1984 Winter Olympics in

Sports History / Cold War

university of massachusetts press . spring/summer 2015 . www.umass.edu/umpress

How one American oil company shaped

Making the Desert Modern

In 1933 American oilmen representing what later

a volume in the series

A valuable case study of private diplomacy,

Chad H. Parker is associate professor

American History / American Studies

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Examines global travel writing from

African American Travel

Totten does an excellent job demonstrating how

Gary Totten is professor of English at

During the Jim Crow era, African American travelers

African American Studies / American Literature

university of massachusetts press . spring/summer 2015 . www.umass.edu/umpress

The first book to consider Audre Lordes

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