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"This fascinating book enriches US women's labor history, complicates histories of Syrian immigration, and foregrounds the ways Syrian American workers resisted US empire. Connecting diverse geographies and modes of production, Stacy Fahrenthold highlights the significance of gendered labor and Syrian American workers in the globalizing US textile and garment industry." —Aimee Loiselle, Central Connecticut State University

“I was fully captivated by this story about women’s efforts to tell their own history. Russell’s engaging narrative reminds readers that public commemorations of Black women’s history are a product of Black women’s history itself--a history of labor, fundraising, intellectual work, and local politics.”--Lynn M. Hudson, author of West of Jim Crow: The Fight Against California's Color Line

Rehab on the Range is the definitive work on the Fort Worth Narcotic Farm. A significant contribution to the untold history of the West, this is a well-told tale of drug use and incarceration in the context of oil boom-and-bust, migratory labor, and settler farm families’ adaptation to the painful rigor of their ways of life. Karibo’s flair for detail brings the institution and its unique brand of moral therapy to life. ~Nancy D. Campbell, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, coauthor of The Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America’s First Prison for Drug Addicts

The School of History at the University of Leeds is looking to employ a short-term Project Assistant to support the development of an Engaged Research Network. This role is an exciting opportunity to be part of a project responding to calls from both the archival sector and the creative industries to develop trauma-informed approaches and embed therapeutic support in engaged research practices.

CALL FOR PAPERS Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature University College Dublin, Ireland 17-20 June 2025 Keynote Speakers – Prof. Sarah Brouillette (Carleton University) Prof. Christopher Newfield (Independent Social Research Foundation)

History Lab is proud to announce three exciting opportunities that may be of particular interest to PGRs & ECRs! We are delighted to announce that the 2024/2025 instalment of our Olivette Otele Paper Prize for Black PhD students is now open for submissions. We're also proud to launch our call for papers for two exciting upcoming PGR-focused conferences: "Teaching History in a Time of Crisis" in Warwick on 29 May 2025 and our 2025 Annual Conference at the Institute of Historical Research on 24 July 2025.