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"Annals of Native America brings alive, in ways both exacting and exhilarating, the social and linguistic worlds inhabited by the authors of Nahuatl-language yearly accounts in colonial Mexico. By following their trajectory from their inception as documents in Roman script to their manifold transformations in a 'golden age' of native historical writing, Townsend provides a fresh and compelling perspective on the most vibrant set of historical narratives by indigenous scholars in the colonial Americas. " ---Historian David Tazarez

"Understanding and Teaching American Slavery purports to do what any thinking person in this country might consider an impossible task: provide an academic scheme for explaining the insidious institution of slavery in this country and its continuing ramifications within American culture. The book's editors--Bethany Jay, associate professor of history at Salem State University, and Cynthia Lynn Lyerly, associate professor of history at Boston College--have done just that. " --John Senger

"As social history, Newsprint Metropolis offers a deeply sourced and engaging account of the complicated relationship between newspapers and cities, and the ways in which the two intersected. . .One of the strengths of Newsprint Metropolis is Guarneri's holistic approach with primary sources. She dives beyond front pages and intro newspaper folds, examining Sunday sections, comics, advice columns, theater sections, and business directories. And while large metropolitan dailies are covered, she does not forget the role weekly, African-American, and foreign language newspapers played in the lives of city dwellers. " --''American Journalism''

 "Manning Marable is the exemplary black scholar of radical democracy and black freedom in our time. His long-awaited magisterial book on Malcolm X is the definitive treatment of the greatest black radical voice and figure of the mid-twentieth century. Glory Hallelujah! " --Professor Cornel West

[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1101875240/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1101875240&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=8a89f487e4b7e72f76c5d4fb19569445 Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It, ] by Larrie D. Ferreiro (Alfred A. Knopf)New England Bound"This book will revive in an enlightened way an old controversy among Americans—both historians and educated laymen—concerning the American Revolution: Slavery Could it have been won without French and Colonization Spanish help? Professor Ferreiro’s answer is clearly given in Early Americathe subtitle and throughout his book. The book is excellent—based on solid research and wide reading, by Wendy Warren (Liveright/Wargued with much spirit and insight. It is an illuminating and suggestive study deserving of a wide readership in and out of universities and colleges.W" -- Historian Robert L. Norton) Middlekauff

Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending "Yet another cautionary tale from the Civil WarWar―that the pain of war endures long after the stacking of arms or the signing of an armistice. A fact that those who clamor for U.S. military intervention in every conflict too often forget.” -- Frank Reeves, by Brian Matthew Jordan (Liveright/Norton)Pittsburgh Post-Gazette