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The sale of authors' papers to archives has become big news. Amy Hildreth Chen offers the history of how this multimillion dollar business developed from the mid-twentieth century onward and considers what impact authors, literary agents, curators, archivists, and others have had on this burgeoning economy.

Argues that the veins of the postcolonial remain open, having prolonged and reproduced themselves over the course of decades. The book traces the emergence of epistemological categories and offers thematic analyses of racial and ethnic differences, as well as those arising from sociability, representations, and sociopolitical and cultural dynamics.

Traces the planning, construction, and operation of penitentiaries in five Adirondack Park communities from the 1840s to the early 2000s to demonstrate that the histories of mass incarceration and environmental consciousness are interconnected.

At turns lyrical, poignant, and alluring, The Memory Eaters tells the story of a family's cyclical and intergenerational incidents of trauma, secret-keeping, and forgetting in the context of 1970s and 1980s New York City.

Details the cultural history and personal stories behind an iconic figure of Cold War masculinity - the fallout shelter father. Thomas Bishop demonstrates that the nuclear crisis years of 1957 to 1963 were not just pivotal for the history of international relations but were also a transitional moment in the social histories of American fatherhood.

Exploring the darker side of optimism, Sarah Harris Wallman's debut collection shows women attempting to build durable havens from reality, struggling to keep relationships intact, and reinventing themselves. As these twelve stories prove, there's no sensible way to fall in love, raise children, or escape. This is Senseless Women.

Renata Ferreira's poems were composed in the final years of Portugal's fascist regime, exposing and subverting the government's draconian edicts. Presenting the poems of this Portuguese American writer and detailing their surprising rediscovery in 2015, Frank Gaspar fuses genres, flouts borders, and brings to life a voice that had been silenced.

Traces the histories of the largest, most lucrative, and rapidly growing genealogical databases to delineate a broader history of the industry. As each unique case study reveals, new database and DNA technologies enable an obsessive completeness - the desire to gather all of the world's genealogical records in the interests of life beyond death.

Maria Baldwin held a special place in the racially divided society of her time, as a highly respected educator at a largely white New England school and an activist who carried on the radical spirit of the Boston area's renowned abolitionists from a generation earlier. This book reveals both Baldwin's victories and ""quiet courage"" in everyday life.

In this book, Karen Woods Weierman complicates Boston's identity as the birthplace of abolition and the cradle of liberty, and restores an enslaved six-year-old girl named Med to her rightful place in antislavery history by situating her story in the context of other writings on slavery, childhood, and the law.

Making a bold case for the importance of printing and paper technology in the study of early American literature, Jonathan Senchyne presents archival evidence of the effects of this very visible process on American writers, such as Anne Bradstreet, Herman Melville, Lydia Sigourney, William Wells Brown, and other lesser-known figures.

Takes readers on explorations to watch, hear, and know Massachusetts's hummingbirds, hawks, and herons along the coasts and in the woodlands, meadows, and marshes of Cape Ann, Cape Cod, the Great Marsh, Mount Auburn Cemetery, the Quabbin wilderness, Mount WachuSett, and elsewhere.

You can open up a world of imagination and learning for children when you encourage the expression of ideas through writing. Kids Have All the Write Stuff: Revised and Updated for a Digital Age shows you how to support children's development as confident writers and communicators.

With its rich history of prominent families, MassachuSetts is home to some of the most historic residences in America. Beth Luey examines the lives and homes of acclaimed poets and writers, slaves who won their freedom, Civil War-enlistees, socialites, and leading merchants.

While Britain and other countries have established national museums to nurture their seagoing traditions, America has left that responsibility to private institutions. In this first-of-its-kind history, James Lindgren focuses on a half-dozen of these great museums, ranging from Salem's East India Marine Society to San Francisco's Maritime Museum.

Taking up the New Hampshire newspaper industry as its case study, American Intelligence unpacks the ways in which an unprecedented quantity of printed material was gathered, distributed, marketed, and consumed, as well as the strong influence that it had on the shaping of the American political imagination.

Offers a provocative critique of sexual justice language and policy in higher education around the concept of consent. This book shows how inaccurate concepts about gender, gender identity, and sexuality erase queer or trans students' experiences and perpetuate narrow, regressive gender norms and individualist frameworks for understanding violence.

In this concise yet comprehensive history, Jared Ross Hardesty focuses on the individual stories of enslaved people in New England, bringing their experiences to life. He also explores larger issues such as the importance of slavery to the colonization of the region, and connections to Caribbean plantation societies.

Examines gender and power as it charts an archival journey connecting the least remembered writers and readers of the early twentieth century with one of its most renowned literary figures, Gertrude Stein.

Print culture expanded significantly in the nineteenth century due to new print technologies and more efficient distribution methods, providing literary critics with an increasing number of venues to publish their work. Adam Gordon embraces the multiplicity of critique in the period from 1830 to 1860 by exploring the critical forms that emerged.

The ascendance of television news in the 1960s as America's top choice for information threatened the self-defined supremacy of print journalism. In Contested Ground, Mike Conway argues that the production and reception of television news and documentaries during this period reveals a major upheaval in American news communications.

Poems written by children are not typically part of the literary canon. Because of cultural biases, these works are often excluded or dismissed as juvenilia. Rachel Conrad contends that youth-composed poems should be read as literary works in their own right - works that are deserving of greater respect in literary culture.

The first book to explore how cultural action - including minstrelsy, theatre, and popular literature - transformed public opinion and political structures. Taking the North's rallying cry as his title, John Brooke shows how the course of history was forever changed.

Explores how popular culture and entertainments are seen, heard, and felt in Emily Dickinson's writing. Sandra Runzo proposes that the presence of popular entertainment in Dickinson's life and work opens our eyes to new dimensions of the poems, illuminating the ways in which the poet was attentive to strife and conflict, to amusement, and to play.

During the 1960s and 1970s, New England and British seafaring workers experienced new hardships as modern fleets from many nations intensified their hunt for fish. Colin Davis details the unfolding drama as New England and British fishermen and their wives, partners, and families reacted to this competition.

In this charming, tragicomic tale of compromised environmentalism, Moacyr Scliar employs his signature humour and talent for crisp storytelling while weaving together a playfully serious parable of environmentalist ideals that clash with the realities of local politics, global consumer culture, and competing visions of authentic nature.

Born on the island of Flores, between Europe and the United States, Pedro da Silveira captures the islander's longing for migratory movement, leading to departure and an inevitable return. These fresh and original poems express a deep connection to place, particularly, the insular world of the mid Atlantic islands of the Azores.

Traces the development of the Portuguese American press from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century to the present, taking readers from the East Coast to Hawaii, with strategic stops in places with large Portuguese communities, including New Bedford, Massachusetts; Oakland, California; and Newark, New Jersey.