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African Americans and the Presidency

The Road to the White House

Edited by Bruce A. Glasrud, Cary D. Wintz

African Americans and the Presidency explores the long history of African American candidates for President and Vice President, examining the impact of each candidate on…

November 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-80392-2 (Routledge)

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New Orleans in the Atlantic World

Between Land and Sea

Edited by William Boelhower

The thematic project �New Orleans in the Atlantic World� was planned immediately after hurricane Katrina and focuses on what meteorologists have always known: the city�s…

October 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-55432-9 (Routledge)

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African Americans and the Haitian Revolution

Selected Essays and Historical Documents

Edited by Maurice Jackson, Jacqueline Bacon

Bringing together scholarly essays and helpfully annotated primary documents, African Americans and the Haitian Revolution collects not only the best recent scholarship on the subject,…

October 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-80376-2 (Routledge)

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Red Activists and Black Freedom

James and Esther Jackson and the Long Civil Rights Revolution

Edited by David Levering Lewis, Michael H. Nash, Daniel J. Leab

This book deals with the forgotten history of the civil rights movement. The American Left played a significant part in the origins of that movement,…

October 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-47255-5 (Routledge)

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American Women during World War II

An Encyclopedia

By Doris Weatherford

American Women during World War II documents the lives and stories of women who contributed directly to the war effort via official and semi-official military…

October 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99475-0 (Routledge)

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Strategy in the American War of Independence

A Global Approach

Edited by Donald Stoker, Kenneth J. Hagan, Michael T. McMaster

This book examines the strategies pursued by the Colonies and the other combatants in the American War for Independence, placing the conflict in its proper…

October 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36734-9 (Routledge)

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Origins of the Black Atlantic

Edited by Laurent Dubois, Julius S. Scott

Between 1492 and 1820, about two-thirds of the people who crossed the Atlantic to the Americas were Africans. With the exception of the Spanish, all…

September 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-99446-0 (Routledge)

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The Postwar Struggle for Civil Rights

African Americans in San Francisco, 1945�1975

By Paul T. Miller

The war industries associated with World War II brought unparalleled employment opportunities for African Americans in San Francisco, a city whose African American population grew…

September 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-80601-5 (Routledge)

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Discourse and Culture

The Creation of America, 1870-1920

By Alun Munslow

Written history is literary artifact: taking this as its starting point, Discourse and Culture argues that the Foucauldian concept of the shifting scale of linguistic…

September 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55303-2 (Routledge)

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America's 'Special Relationships'

Foreign and Domestic Aspects of the Politics of Alliance

Edited by John Dumbrell, Axel Sch�fer

This unique volume offers an original collection of essays on the theme of America�s �special relationships�. It interrogates in an original and provocative manner the…

August 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48375-9 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

The Routledge Atlas of American History
By Martin Gilbert
To be published December 4th 2009

The School in the United States: A Documentary History
By James W. Fraser
To be published December 8th 2009

America and the Vietnam War: Re-examining the Culture and History of a Generation
Edited by Andrew Wiest, Mary Kathryn Barbier, Glenn Robins
To be published December 18th 2009

Teaching History with Film: Strategies for Secondary Social Studies
By Alan S. Marcus, Scott Alan Metzger, Richard J. Paxton, Jeremy D. Stoddard
To be published January 12th 2010

Race, Remembering, and Jim Crow�s Teachers
By Hilton Kelly
To be published March 1st 2010

How We Are Changed by War: A Study of Letters and Diaries from Colonial Conflicts to Operation Iraqi Freedom
By Diana C. Gill
To be published March 5th 2010

The Restless City Reader: A New York City Sourcebook
Edited by Joanne Reitano
To be published March 26th 2010

The Restless City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present, Second Edition
By Joanne Reitano
To be published April 1st 2010

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: African American Reform Rhetoric and the Rise of a Modern Nation State
By Michael Stancliff
To be published April 15th 2010

Triumph Revisited: Historians Battle for the Vietnam War
Edited by Andrew Wiest, Michael Doidge
To be published April 20th 2010

Revolutionary America, 1763�1815: A Sourcebook
Edited by Francis D. Cogliano, Kirsten E. Phimister
To be published May 3rd 2010

The Small Wars of the United States, 1899�2009: An Annotated Bibliography
By Benjamin R. Beede
To be published May 11th 2010

The Caribbean History Reader
Edited by Nicola Foote
To be published June 30th 2010

Jesse Owens, the Press, and the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games
By Pamela C. Laucella
To be published June 30th 2010

Citizen and Soldier: A Sourcebook on Military Service and National Defense
By Henry C. Dethloff, Gerald E. Shenk
To be published July 15th 2010

A More Powerful Approach to Teaching History: Developing Historical Understanding in Secondary School Classrooms
By Bruce VanSledright
To be published August 1st 2010

The American Urban Reader: History and Theory
Edited by Steven Corey, Lisa Krissoff Boehm
To be published August 1st 2010

The World of the American West
Edited by Gordon Morris Bakken
To be published August 1st 2010

Chemical Warfare during the Vietnam War: Riot Control Agents in Combat
By D. Hank Ellison
To be published August 15th 2010

American History Goes to the Movies: Hollywood and the American Experience
By W. Bryan Rommel Ruiz
To be published August 15th 2010

Converging Worlds: Communities and Cultures in Colonial America, A Sourcebook
Edited by Louise A. Breen
To be published August 15th 2010

Converging Worlds: Communities and Cultures in Colonial America
Edited by Louise A. Breen
To be published August 15th 2010

Breaking the Wave: Women, Their Organizations, and Feminism, 1945�1985
Edited by Kathleen A. Laughlin, Jacqueline Castledine
To be published September 1st 2010

Women in the United States Military: An Annotated Bibliography
By Judith Bellafaire
To be published September 1st 2010

Race and Law: Black Civil Rights from 1862�1954
By Christopher Waldrep
To be published September 1st 2010

The Construction of Irish Identity in American Literature
By Chris Dowd
To be published September 15th 2010

The Boston Massacre: A History with Documents
By Neil L. York
To be published October 1st 2010

Crime and the Rise of Modern America: A History from 1865�1941
By Kristofer Allerfeldt
To be published October 1st 2010

The Spanish-American War and Philippines Insurgency, 1898�1902: An Annotated Bibliography
By Mark Barnes
To be published October 1st 2010

Colonial America: Essays in Politics and Social Development
Edited by Stanley Katz, John M. Murrin, Douglas Greenberg, David Silverman, Denver Brunsman
To be published November 1st 2010