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  • Maladies of Empire

    How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine

    by Jim Downs ...
    A sweeping global history that looks beyond European urban centers to show how slavery, colonialism, and war propelled the development of modern medicine.Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of London’s 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump, leading to the birth of epidemiology. Florence Nightingale’s contributions to the care of soldiers in ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Stand by Me

    The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation

    by Jim Downs ...
    From a prominent young historian, the untold story of the rich variety of gay life in America in the 1970sDespite the tremendous gains of the LGBT movement in recent years, the history of gay life in this country remains poorly understood. According to conventional wisdom, gay liberation started with the Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village in 1969. The 1970s represented a moment of triumph -- ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • U.S. History at the 250th

    From the Revolution to the History Wars

    by Sandra Enríquez, Annette Gordon-Reed, Sandy Grande, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Erika Lee, Robert Parkinson, Marc Stein, William Sturkey ...
    Series series History in the Headlines
    Sandra Enríquez (Author)SANDRA ENRIQUEZ is an Associate Professor of History and the Director of the Public History Emphasis at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. Enríquez is the author of ¡El Barrio No Se Vende!: Grassroots Activism and Revitalization in El PasoAnnette Gordon-Reed (Author)ANNETTE GORDON-REED is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. She has won sixteen ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Reckoning with History

    Unfinished Stories of American Freedom

    Edited by Jim Downs, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, T. K. Hunter, Timothy Patrick McCarthy ...
    Reckoning with History brings together original essays from a diverse group of historians who consider how writing about the past can engage with the urgent issues of the present. The contributors—all former students of the distinguished Columbia University historian Eric Foner—explore the uses and politics of history through key episodes across a wide range of struggles for freedom. They shed new ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Medicine by the People

    How Ordinary People Changed American Healthcare

    by Jim Downs ...
    Series series A Norton Short
    A grassroots history of American medicine that shows how regular people were architects of medical knowledge and care.Most histories of medicine center doctors: the standard-bearers of expertise and innovation. Yet these narratives underplay the role that ordinary people have, and always have had, on medicine and public health.In colonial America, Black people’s knowledge led to smallpox ... Read more

    $16.49 USD

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  • Sick from Freedom

    African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction

    by Jim Downs ...
    Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death. But the war produced the largest biological crisis of the nineteenth century, and as historian Jim Downs reveals in this groundbreaking volume, it had deadly consequences for hundreds of thousands of freed people. In Sick from ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Voter Suppression in U.S. Elections

    by Stacey Abrams, Carol Anderson, Kevin M. Kruse, Heather Cox Richardson, Heather Ann Thompson ...
    Series series History in the Headlines
    Historians have long been engaged in telling the story of the struggle for the vote. In the wake of recent contested elections, the suppression of the vote has returned to the headlines, as awareness of the deep structural barriers to the ballot, particularly for poor, black, and Latino voters, has called attention to the historical roots of issues related to voting access.Perhaps most notably, ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Remembering the Memphis Massacre

    An American Story

    by Jim Downs, Carole Emberton, Timothy S. Huebner, Elizabeth L. Jemison, Andre E. Johnson, Kate Masur, K. Stephen Prince, Joseph Reidy, John Rodrigue, Hannah Rosen, Joshua D. Rothman, Julie Saville, Calvin Schermerhorn, Andrew Slap ...
    On May 1, 1866, a minor exchange between white Memphis city police and a group of black Union soldiers quickly escalated into murder and mayhem. Changes wrought by the Civil War and African American emancipation sent long-standing racial, economic, cultural, class, and gender tensions rocketing to new heights. For three days, a mob of white men roamed through South Memphis, leaving a trail of ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • January 6 and the Politics of History

    by Jim Downs, Stephanie McCurry, Joanne B. Freeman, Elizabeth Hinton, Jill Lepore, William Sturkey, Julian E. Zelizer ...
    Series series History in the Headlines
    On January 6, 2021, more than two thousand rioters stormed the doors of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., hoping to interrupt the peaceful transfer of power from former president Donald Trump to his successor, Joseph Biden. The deaths, property damage, and vicious rampage that ensued were witnessed on live television as an unprecedented attack on the democratic process and those who ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Why We Write

    The Politics and Practice of Writing for Social Change

    by Jim Downs ...
    Why We Write provides a forum for scholars, activists, and novelists to reflect on the ways in which they use their writing and academic work to create social change. This volume uncovers the political agendas, social missions, and personal and professional experiences that compel writers to bring their stories to the page. Why We Write examines the dual commitment of writing articles and books ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Reckoning with History

    Unfinished Stories of American Freedom

    Edited by Jim Downs, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, T. K. Hunter, Timothy Patrick McCarthy ...
    Reckoning with History brings together original essays from a diverse group of historians who consider how writing about the past can engage with the urgent issues of the present. The contributors—all former students of the distinguished Columbia University historian Eric Foner—explore the uses and politics of history through key episodes across a wide range of struggles for freedom. They shed new ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Sexuality and Slavery

    Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas

    by Trevor Burnard, Stephanie M. H. Camp, David Doddington, Jim Downs, Thomas A. Foster, Marisa Fuentes, Stephanie Jones-Rogers, Jessica Millward, Bianca Premo, Brenda Stevenson ...
    Series Book 1 - Gender and Slavery
    In this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris place sexuality at the center of slavery studies in the Americas (the United States, the Caribbean, and South America). While scholars have marginalized or simply overlooked the importance of sexual practices in most mainstream studies of slavery, Berry and Harris argue here that sexual intimacy constituted a core ... Read more

    $98.99 USD