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  • The Stonewall Riots

    A Documentary History

    Edited by Marc Stein ...
    On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the most important moment in LGBTQ history—depicted by the people who influenced, recorded, and reacted to it.June 28, 1969, Greenwich Village: The New York City Police Department, fueled by bigoted liquor licensing practices and an omnipresent backdrop of homophobia and transphobia, raided the Stonewall Inn, a neighborhood gay bar, in the middle of the ... Read more

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  • Queer Public History

    Essays on Scholarly Activism

    by Marc Stein ...
    Over the course of the last half century, queer history has developed as a collaborative project involving academic researchers, community scholars, and the public. Initially rejected by most colleges and universities, queer history was sustained for many years by community-based contributors and audiences. Academic activism eventually made a place for queer history within higher education, which ... Read more

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  • Bicentennial

    A Revolutionary History of the 1970s

    by Marc Stein ...
    “Utterly illuminating. . . . Just a really revelatory book.”—Jill Lepore, The New York Times**,** The “Book Review” Podcast • “As historian Stein traces in Bicentennial**, a national birthday can launch a much broader, more inclusive, and ambitious national project.”—Rebecca Brenner Graham,** The New Republic **• “A comp... ... Read more

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  • Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement

    by Marc Stein ...
    Series series American Social and Political Movements of the 20th Century
    Now in its second edition, Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement provides an accessible overview of an important and transformational struggle for social change, highlighting key individuals and events, influential groups and organizations, major successes and failures, and the movement’s lasting effects and unfinished work.Focusing on four decades of social, cultural, and political change in ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • U.S. History at the 250th

    From the Revolution to the History Wars

    Series series History in the Headlines
    The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. But does the nation begin in 1776, or do we trace its origins to some point earlier—for example, the arrival of the first enslaved people in 1619 or the initial settlement of Indigenous people? What’s at stake with establishing a date that marks the nation’s origins? Where does the history of the nation begin? In ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Sexual Injustice

    Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe

    by Marc Stein ...
    Focusing on six major Supreme Court cases during the 1960s and 1970s, Marc Stein examines the generally liberal rulings on birth control, abortion, interracial marriage, and obscenity in Griswold, Eisenstadt, Roe, Loving, and Fanny Hill alongside a profoundly conservative ruling on homosexuality in Boutilier. In the same era in which the Court recognized special marital, reproductive, and ... Read more

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  • Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities

    The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940–1970

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    The Triumphant Gay Revolution

    In the vein of Taylor Branch's classic Parting of the Waters, Supreme Court lawyer and political pundit Linda Hirshman delivers the enthralling, groundbreaking story of the gay rights movement, revealing how a dedicated and resourceful minority changed America forever.When the modern struggle for gay rights erupted in the summer of 1969, forty-nine states outlawed sex between people of the same ... Read more

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    This "excellent study of activist politics in the United States over the past century" challenges the conventional wisdom about participatory democracy ( Times Literary Supplement).Freedom Is an Endless Meeting offers vivid portraits of American experiments in participatory democracy throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on meticulous research and more than one hundred interviews with ... Read more

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  • Law and Society

    Canadian Edition

    Law and Society provides a balanced and comprehensive analysis of the interplay between law and society using both Canadian and international examples. This clear and readable text is fi lled with interesting information, ideas and insights. All materials and supporting statistics have been carefully updated. This edition includes an expanded discussion of the law and First Nations people, recent ... Read more

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  • Feminism Unfinished

    A Short, Surprising History of American Women's Movements

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