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    Ulysses S. Grant: A Photographic History, by James Bultema, foreword by Frank J. Williams

    James Bultema is the vice president of the board of directors of the Ulysses S. Grant Association. His collection of images, the Bultema-Williams Collection of Ulysses S. Grant Photographs and Prints, is now housed at the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library at Mississippi State University. He is the author of several books on policing, including The Protectors: A Photographic History of Police Departments in the U.S.

    Circle Jerk and This American Wife: the internet theater of Fake Friends, by Michael Breslin, edited by Ariel Sibert & Michael Breslin

    "The brilliance of this work is only enhanced by the knowledge that they come at the start of a radiant future. Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley's combined exceptional eye and ear makes something new in the American theatre—something far more robust, outrageous, and inventive than anything we've seen in recent years, and I for one can't wait for their future." —Hilton Als, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and theater critic for The New Yorker

    In Chocolate We Trust: The Hershey Company Town Unwrapped, by Peter Kurie

    "[Kurie's] sensitivity to, and affection for, the various community subgroups often shine through. The result is a testament to a Hershey identity that is still strong. . . . [Kurie] demonstrates how a philanthropic institution can continue to reflect a founder's vision while shaping and being shaped by the community that grows up around it, one whose bonds can often be bittersweet." - The Wall Street Journal

    CFP: The Black Press at 200

    This two-day symposium at Howard University, home of the Black Press Archives, will convene scholars, journalists, archivists, artists, and students to critically examine the past, present, and futures of the Black Press.

    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

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