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Forthcoming Titles

Red Lives: Our Years in the US Communist Party, Vol. 1: Coming of Age in the Communist and Labor Movements

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Red Lives: Our Years in the US Communist Party is the first collection of historical analyses and reminiscences by members of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and the Communist youth movement in the US from ...

The Art of Compilation: Manuscripts and Networks in the Early Medieval Latin West

The Art of Compilation: Manuscripts and Networks in the Early Medieval Latin West interrogates the medieval manuscript book as a dynamic, constantly changing object entangled in intellectual and cultural networks, constructed and deconstructed by different ...

Winter Light: On Late Life’s Radiance

In the contemporary West, the elderly are regarded as somehow “other,” no longer who they used to be, no longer full members of the worlds they once inhabited. Being old is seen as a medical ...

The Fight for Black Liberation: Breaking the Political Strings in the Trump Era

The first presidency of Donald J. Trump further unveiled the calamity of white America’s determination to maintain societal order during a period of landmark racial upheaval. From the restrictive voting measures led by Republicans and ...

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