Gripping re-examination of the rendition of Anthony Burns On June 2, 1854, crowds lined the streets of Boston, hissin
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Bridging literary scholarship, archaeology, history, and art history, Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in
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Together with experts in a variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences--including botany, geology, ecology
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Traditionally, scholars of authorship in antebellum America have approached their subject through the lens of profession
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Ghosts. Railroads. Sing Sing. Sex machines. These are just a few of the phenomena that appear in John Lardas Modern’s pi
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In the fight for equality, early feminists often cited the infantilization of women and men of color as a method used to
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As runaway slaves fled from the South to escape bondage, slave catchers followed in their wake. The arrival of fugitives
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Edgar Allan Poe has long been viewed as an artist who was hopelessly out of step with his time. But as Terence Whalen sh
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Susan M. Ryan explores antebellum Americans' preoccupation with the language and practice of benevolence. Drawing o
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