National Council on Public History 2022
A collection of books curated for attendees and those interested in the National Council on Public History's 2022 annual meeting.
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This Contested Land The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America’s National Monuments McKenzie Long 2024 Spring
- One woman’s enlightening trek through the natural histories, cultural stories, and present perils of thirteen national monuments, from Maine to Hawaii—now available in paperback
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The Common Camp Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel–Palestine Irit Katz 2022 Spring
- Seeing the camp as a persistent political instrument in Israel–Palestine and beyond
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Exceptionally Queer Mormon Peculiarity and U.S. Nationalism K. Mohrman 2022 Spring
- How perceptions of Mormonism from 1830 to the present reveal the exclusionary, racialized practices of the U.S. nation-state
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The Dylan Tapes Friends, Players, and Lovers Talkin’ Early Bob Dylan Anthony Scaduto 2021 Fall
- The raw material and interviews behind Anthony Scaduto’s iconic biography of Bob Dylan draw an intimate and multifaceted portrait of the singer-songwriter who defined his era
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A Natural Curiosity The Story of the Bell Museum Lansing Shepard, Don Luce, Barbara Coffin and Gwen Schagrin 2021 Fall
- A richly illustrated tour of Minnesota’s premier natural history museum after 150 years
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Earthworks Rising Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts Chadwick Allen 2022 Spring
- A necessary reexamination of Indigenous mounds, demonstrating their sustained vitality and vibrant futurity by centering Native voices
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Allotment Stories Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O’Brien, Editors 2021 Fall
- More than two dozen essays of Indigenous resistance to the privatization and allotment of Indigenous lands
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A Monetary and Fiscal History of Latin America, 1960-2017 Timothy J. Kehoe and Juan Pablo Nicolini, Editors 2021 Spring
- A major, new, and comprehensive look at six decades of macroeconomic policies across the region
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Black Pulp Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow Brooks E. Hefner 2021 Fall
- A deep dive into mid-century African American newspapers, exploring how Black pulp fiction reassembled genre formulas in the service of racial justice
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Winter’s Children A Celebration of Nordic Skiing Ryan Rodgers 2021 Fall
- The story of Nordic skiing in the Midwest—its origins and history, its star athletes and races, and its place in the region’s social fabric and the nation’s winter recreation
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Settler Colonial City Racism and Inequity in Postwar Minneapolis David Hugill 2021 Fall
- Revealing the enduring link between settler colonization and the making of modern Minneapolis
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Gichigami Hearts Stories and Histories from Misaabekong Linda LeGarde Grover 2021 Fall
- Award-winning author Linda LeGarde Grover interweaves family and Ojibwe history with stories from Misaabekong (the place of the giants) on Lake Superior
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Reconstructing the Garrick Adler & Sullivan’s Lost Masterpiece John Vinci, Editor 2021 Fall
- A beautifully designed and lavishly illustrated biography of one of Chicago’s greatest lost buildings
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Louis Sullivan’s Idea Tim Samuelson 2021 Fall
- A visual compendium revealing the philosophy and life of America’s renowned architect
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The Editor Function Literary Publishing in Postwar America Abram Foley 2021 Fall
- Offering the everyday tasks of literary editors as inspired sources of postwar literary history
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Swedish-American Borderlands New Histories of Transatlantic Relations Dag Blanck and Adam Hjorthén, Editors 2021 Spring
- Reframing Swedish–American relations by focusing on contacts, crossings, and convergences beyond migration
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The Speculative City Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles Susanna Phillips Newbury 2021 Spring
- A forensic examination of the mutual relationship between art and real estate in a transforming Los Angeles
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Why We Lost the Sex Wars Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era Lorna N. Bracewell 2021 Spring
- Reexamining feminist sexual politics since the 1970s—the rivalries and the remarkable alliances
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The Radical Bookstore Counterspace for Social Movements Kimberley Kinder 2021 Spring
- Examines how radical bookstores and similar spaces serve as launching pads for social movements
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Nuclear Suburbs Cold War Technoscience and the Pittsburgh Renaissance Patrick Vitale 2021 Spring
- From submarines to the suburbs—the remaking of Pittsburgh during the Cold War
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The Children of Lincoln White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota, 1860–1876 William D. Green 2021 Spring
- How white advocates of emancipation abandoned African American causes in the dark days of Reconstruction, told through the stories of four Minnesotans
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Breathing Race into the Machine The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics Lundy Braun 2021 Spring
- How race became embedded in a medical instrument
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Nellie Francis Fighting for Racial Justice and Women’s Equality in Minnesota William D. Green 2020 Fall
- The life and work of an African American suffragist and activist devoted to equality and freedom
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As We Have Always Done Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 2021 Spring
- How to build Indigenous resistance movements that refuse the destructive thinking of settler colonialism
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How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900–1940 Thomas C. Hubka 2020 Spring
- The transformation of average Americans’ domestic lives, revealed through the mechanical innovations and physical improvements of their homes
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Black Food Matters Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice Hanna Garth and Ashanté M. Reese, Editors 2020 Fall
- An in-depth look at Black food and the challenges it faces today
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Cruelty as Citizenship How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy 2020 Fall
- Why are immigrants from Mexico and Latin America such an affectively charged population for political conservatives?
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The Wedding Heard ’Round the World America’s First Gay Marriage Michael McConnell 2020 Fall
- Forty-four years after two men married in a legal ceremony in Minnesota, the Supreme Court has decided the question first raised by these gay pioneers
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The Invention of Public Space Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay’s New York Mariana Mogilevich 2020 Spring
- The interplay of psychology, design, and politics in experiments with urban open space
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Modern Housing Catherine Bauer 2020 Spring
- The original guide on modern housing from the premier expert and activist in the public housing movement
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Elizabeth Scheu Close A Life in Modern Architecture Jane King Hession 2020 Spring
- An in-depth account of the life and career of Minnesota’s first modern architect
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Digitize and Punish Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age Brian Jefferson 2020 Spring
- Tracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on criminalized communities of color
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Grocery Activism The Radical History of Food Cooperatives in Minnesota Craig B. Upright 2020 Spring
- A key period in the history of food cooperatives that continues to influence how we purchase organic food today
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Class Action Desegregation and Diversity in San Francisco Schools Rand Quinn 2019 Fall
- A compelling history of school desegregation and activism in San Francisco
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Fair Trade Rebels Coffee Production and Struggles for Autonomy in Chiapas Lindsay Naylor 2019 Fall
- Reassessing interpretations of development with a new approach to fair trade
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Walking the Old Road A People’s History of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Anishinaabe Staci Lola Drouillard 2019 Fall
- The story of a once vibrant, now vanished off-reservation Ojibwe village—and a vital chapter of the history of the North Shore
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Avant-Garde in the Cornfields Architecture, Landscape, and Preservation in New Harmony Ben Nicholson and Michelangelo Sabatino, Editors 2019 Spring
- A close examination of an iconic small town that gives boundless insights into architecture, landscape, preservation, and philanthropy
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Standing with Standing Rock Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon, Editors 2019 Spring
- Dispatches of radical political engagement from people taking a stand against the Dakota Access Pipeline
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The Decorated Tenement How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age Zachary J. Violette 2019 Spring
- A reexamination of working-class architecture in late nineteenth-century urban America
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Living on Campus An Architectural History of the American Dormitory Carla Yanni 2019 Spring
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Prison Land Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America Brett Story 2019 Spring
- From broken-window policing in Detroit to prison-building in Appalachia, exploring the expansion of the carceral state and its oppressive social relations into everyday life
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Fighting for NOW Diversity and Discord in the National Organization for Women Kelsy Kretschmer 2019 Spring
- An unparalleled exploration of NOW’s trajectory, from its founding to the present—and its future
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Pictures of Longing Photography and the Norwegian–American Migration Sigrid Lien 2018 Fall
- Haunting and revealing photographs sent home by Norwegian immigrants in America as visual document and collective expression of the emigrant experience
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Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais Early Accounts of the Anishinaabeg and the North Shore Fur Trade Timothy Cochrane 2018 Fall
- The journals of two clerks of the American Fur Company recall a lost moment in the history of the fur trade and the Anishinaabeg along Lake Superior’s North Shore
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Conversations in Maine A New Edition Grace Lee Boggs, James Boggs, Freddy Paine and Lyman Paine 2018 Fall
- Meditations on activism following the turbulent 1960s—back in print
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Herlands Exploring the Women’s Land Movement in the United States Keridwen N. Luis 2018 Fall
- How women-only communities provide spaces for new forms of culture, sociality, gender, and sexuality
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Food Justice Now! Deepening the Roots of Social Struggle Joshua Sbicca 2018 Fall
- A rallying cry to link the food justice movement to broader social justice debates
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The Crusade for Forgotten Souls Reforming Minnesota’s Mental Institutions, 1946-1954 Susan Bartlett Foote 2018 Spring
- The stirring story of the reform movement that laid the groundwork for a modern mental health system in Minnesota
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Flames of Discontent The 1916 Minnesota Iron Ore Strike Gary Kaunonen 2017 Fall
- A working-class history of a 1916 miners’ strike in northern Minnesota, one of the most important events in organized labor of the early twentieth century
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Historic Capital Preservation, Race, and Real Estate in Washington, D.C. Cameron Logan 2017 Fall
- A chronicle of historic preservation’s profound impact on Washington, D.C., highlighting the major changes urban revitalization has made on American cities
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Black on Both Sides A Racial History of Trans Identity C. Riley Snorton 2017 Fall
- Uncovering the overlapping histories of blackness and trans identity from the nineteenth century to the present day
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Building Access Universal Design and the Politics of Disability Aimi Hamraie 2017 Fall
- Rich with archival images, the first critical history of the Universal Design movement
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When the Hills Are Gone Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community Thomas W. Pearson 2017 Fall
- An overlooked part of fracking’s environmental impact becomes a window into the activists and industrial interests fighting for the future of energy production—and the fate of rural communities
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A Shadow over Palestine The Imperial Life of Race in America Keith P. Feldman 2017 Fall
- How Israel and Palestine shaped the post–World War II politics of race in the United States
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F. Scott Fitzgerald in Minnesota The Writer and His Friends at Home Dave Page 2017 Spring
- A look at the life of the Great American Novelist in St. Paul
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Curated Decay Heritage beyond Saving Caitlin DeSilvey 2017 Spring
- A bold new approach to heritage conservation that embraces change and accommodates decay
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The Ford Century in Minnesota Brian McMahon 2016 Fall
- How the Ford Motor Company transformed Minnesota over the past 100 years
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California Mission Landscapes Race, Memory, and the Politics of Heritage Elizabeth Kryder-Reid 2016 Fall
- How iconic American places cultivate and conceal contested pasts
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Urban Policy in the Time of Obama James DeFilippis, Editor 2016 Fall
- How presidential policies have served—or failed to serve—America’s cities
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Heart of St. Paul A History of the Pioneer and Endicott Buildings Larry Millett 2016 Fall
- A history of two icons of commercial architecture at the heart of the Midwest
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The Interface IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945–1976 John Harwood 2016 Fall
- How a cast of superstars at IBM altered the face of corporate culture and design in America
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Living for Change An Autobiography Grace Lee Boggs 2016 Fall
- A remarkable life on the American Left.
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So Much to Be Done The Writings of Breast Cancer Activist Barbara Brenner Barbara Brenner Barbara Sjoholm, Editor 2016 Spring
- Political and inspiring, personal and influential—the writings of Barbara Brenner, who transformed the way we look at breast cancer
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Blood Sugar Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America Anthony Ryan Hatch 2016 Spring
- How contemporary biomedicine has shaped race and racism as America’s health disparities increase
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Freegans Diving into the Wealth of Food Waste in America Alex V. Barnard 2016 Spring
- Freegans, who try to live on what we throw away, reveal the limits of capitalism but also the limits of consumer activism in changing it
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Last Project Standing Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago Catherine Fennell 2015 Fall
- How the aftermath of public housing became an education in the rights and duties of belonging to the city
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The Beginning and End of Rape Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America Sarah Deer 2015 Fall
- How to address widespread violence against Native women—practically, theoretically, and legally—from the foremost advocate for understanding and change
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Border Walls Gone Green Nature and Anti-immigrant Politics in America John Hultgren 2015 Fall
- Why anti-immigration environmentalists need to reconsider their motives
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Myths of the Rune Stone Viking Martyrs and the Birthplace of America David M. Krueger 2015 Fall
- Why the Kensington Rune Stone myth matters to American culture
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Taconite Dreams The Struggle to Sustain Mining on Minnesota’s Iron Range, 1915-2000 Jeffrey T. Manuel 2015 Fall
- The first history of the fight to maintain an industry and a way of life on Minnesota’s Iron Range
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Elusive Jannah The Somali Diaspora and a Borderless Muslim Identity Cawo M. Abdi 2015 Fall
- The contrasting lives of Somali refugees and migrants on three continents
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Wastelanding Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country Traci Brynne Voyles 2015 Spring
- What is “wasteland,” and who gets to decide?
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Making Suburbia New Histories of Everyday America John Archer, Paul J. P. Sandul and Katherine Solomonson, Editors 2015 Spring
- Illustrates the astonishing complexity of American suburbia
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A Peculiar Imbalance The Fall and Rise of Racial Equality in Minnesota, 1837–1869 William D. Green 2015 Spring
- The untold story of what it meant to be a black member of early Minnesota society
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The Folklore of the Freeway Race and Revolt in the Modernist City Eric Avila 2014 Spring
- How urban minority communities devastated by the construction of the interstate highway reclaimed their place through cultural expression
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City Choreographer Lawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America Alison Bick Hirsch 2014 Spring
- How Lawrence Halprin’s choreographic design method mitigated the alienating effects of urban renewal and enriched contemporary urban design
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Little White Houses How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America Dianne Harris 2012 Fall
- How the ordinary American house contributed to definitions of middle-class whiteness and an exclusionary housing market in the postwar era
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194X Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Home Front Andrew M. Shanken 2009 Spring
- Rediscovering the visionary designs and idealistic rhetoric of American architecture during World War II
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Revolutionaries to Race Leaders Black Power and the Making of African American Politics Cedric Johnson 2007 Fall
- What happened to the revolutionary goals of the Black Power movement?
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Building a Century of Progress The Architecture of Chicago’s 1933–34 World’s Fair Lisa D. Schrenk 2007 Spring
- The first in-depth look at the architecture of the second Chicago World’s Fair