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    Shameless: The Making of Black Gay Identities in LA, by Terrell J. A. Winder

    "By centering the ways of knowing and being of Black gay men and elaborating on the practices they use to refashion their identities, Winder intervenes in the social science and public health tendency to obscure or dismiss Black gay men's agency in their own self-recognition, affirmation, and care; this is a crucial contribution that Shameless makes." – Marlon M Bailey, author of Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit

    In Contagion’s Wake: Black Writers and the Development of Modern Outbreak Narratives, by Kelly L. Bezio

    “Bezio offers an insightful and compelling way to argue for the relevance of early American texts in providing nuanced, epidemiologically attuned readings of outbreak stories in the present.” - Louise Penner, author of Victorian Medicine and Social Reform: Florence Nightingale among the Novelists

    An Atlantic City Reader: The Rise and Decline of an American Resort, edited by Louis J. Parascandola & John Parascandola

    "Many authors have written of Atlantic City with nostalgia for bygone vacations or with criticism of the gambling industry and political corruption, but until now, no one has attempted to capture the multiplicity of viewpoints and commentary on the city across time in one volume. An Atlantic City Reader provides history, entertainment, and social commentary on 'America's Famous Playground' through a variety of lenses and voices." - Heather Perez, Stockton University and Atlantic City historian

    Advocate: On History’s Front Lines from Watergate to the Keating Five, Clinton Impeachment, and Benghazi, by James Hamilton

    James Hamilton’s Advocate is an insightful and compelling memoir from a Washington insider who has witnessed countless significant events in American politics for decades. Hamilton makes good on his promise that the stories told are, in fact, lessons from history that represent the intersection of law and politics. This is an essential read for anyone looking to better understand the true nature of political power in Washington."—Lori Cox Han, author of Advising Nixon: The White House Memos of Patrick J. Buchanan

    A Kitchenette to Fit Your Needs: Housing Chicago’s Great Migration, by Amani C. Morrison

    "A Kitchenette to Fit Your Needs tells a story not just of the kitchenette as a space, but of kitchenette living as a practice. With the archive she has meticulously assembled, Amani Morrison seamlessly moves between records and literary readings to reshape how we approach the lifeworlds of buildings." – Adrienne Brown, author of The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race

    Haunted by Memory: Ghost Stories of the American Civil War, edited by Amy Laurel Fluker & John R. Neff

    "Every story is in its way an epitaph—a message from the dead or future departed. In Haunted By Memory, John R. Neff and Amy Laurel Fluker assemble nineteenth- and early twentieth-century 'headstones' into a marvelous graveyard of narrative and invite us to summon spirits. The result is a rich repository of memory as past hauntings of national trauma emerge into the reader's present and compel us to listen."—Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, co-author of The Routledge Introduction to the American Ghost Story

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