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    Peddlers of Hate: How the Ku Klux Klan Seized Power in 1920s Oregon, by Steve Law

    "Peddlers of Hate provides today's justice advocates with a meaningful insight into the fissures of American democracy that will continue to be exploited until the cores of bigotry, xenophobia, and white supremacy are met with the same understanding of history as the operators of oppression. Law's warnings are to be heeded lest the heirs to the Klan ride to power once again." —Taylor Stewart, executive director of the Oregon Remembrance Project

    Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding, by Hannah Farber

    “Fascinating, deeply researched, and well-written. . . . Underwriters of the United States is an important, lively, and provocative contribution that will become a touchstone for future scholarship on the relationship between early American business and the state.”—Economic History Association “Underwriters of the United States is an excellent book in every respect, full of fresh insight into an overlooked aspect of the history of the new republic. . . .Deeply researched, smartly written . . . provides a new gloss on the early history of the United States.”—Sea History

    Lady Daredevils: American Women and Early Aviation, by Barbara Ganson

    Barbara Ganson is a professor of history at Florida Atlantic University. She is the author of The Texas Takes Wing: A Century of Flight in the Lone Star State.

    Elizabeth Detention Center: A Social History of Immigration Detention in New Jersey and the United States, edited by Ulla D. Berg & Carolina Sánchez Boe

    "The range of authorial voices, which offer multiple different understandings of detention from legal, social, economic, and first-person perspectives, create a robust and informative scholarship. Through two dozen brief chapters written by journalists, academics, lawyers, activists, and former detainees, this book offers readers remarkable insights into the U.S. detention system today." - Ruth Gomberg, author of Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network

    ⏰ Reminder: Submit your research by Sept. 15 to the Met Journal

    Submit your research by Sept. 15 to the Met Journal

    Undercut: Cut Glass in Working-Class Life During the Long Gilded Age, by Joseph Larnerd

    Joseph Larnerd is the most exciting voice to emerge in decorative arts scholarship in a generation. His deeply researched, theoretically sophisticated, and above all, beautifully written study of cut glass is like the subject itself: multifaceted in its implications, crystalline in its clarity. Undercut is a crucial intervention into the field, one that sets a new standard for material culture studies in the 21st century. - Glenn Adamson, author of A Century of Tomorrows: How Imagining the Future Shapes the Present (2024)

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