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Black History Month 2024

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Rediscover the Civil War through the voices that refused to be silenced

"Unforgettable Sacrifice is a monumental book. Why? Because historians of Civil War memory have yet to offer a full examination of what the Civil War meant to African Americans. That is, until now. Hilary N. Green brings the reader into the post-Civil War lives of Black men and women who actively commemorated the history of that war, and honored the heroism of the men who volunteered to become soldiers in the United States Army to help defeat the Confederacy and make possible the freedom of four million lives. She arrives at this history by tapping into sources outside of the traditional archive—songs, poems, and the memories shared on porches both North and South, including those of her family. Unforgettable Sacrifice is more than a story of war and memory, however. It’s about the meaning of citizenship, and the sacrifices Black Americans made and continue to make to be full participants in our democracy."—Karen L. Cox, author of No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice

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A gripping account of how the automobile has failed NYC and how mass transit and a revitalized streetscape are vital to its post-pandemic recovery

"Movement tells the story of New York through the mastery of its streets. Mayor by mayor, year by year and sometimes street by street, Gelinas assembles the historical facts, the political forces, the powerful personalities and the street fights that have transformed and continue to shape America’s greatest city."

—Janette Sadik-Khan, Bloomberg Associates, former Commissioner, NYC Dept. of Transportation

Critics have long viewed translating Arabic literature into English as an ethically fraught process of mediating between two wholly incommensurable languages, cultures, and literary traditions. Today, Arabic literature is no longer “embargoed” from Anglophone cultural spaces, as Edward Said once famously claimed that it was. As Arabic literary works are translated into English in ever-greater numbers, what alternative model of translation ethics can account for this literature’s newfound readability in the hegemonic language of the world literary system?

Viking Mediologies is a study of pre-modern multimedia rooted in the embodied poetic practice of Viking Age skalds. Prior study of the skaldic tradition has focused on authorship—distinctions of poetic style, historical contexts, and attention to the oeuvres of the skalds whose names are preserved in the written tradition. Kate Heslop reconsiders these not as texts but as pieces in a pre-modern media landscape, focusing on poetry’s medial capacity to embody memory, visuality, and sound.

Moroccan Other-Archives investigates how histories of exclusion and silencing are written and rewritten in a postcolonial context that lacks organized and accessible archives. The book draws on cultural production concerning the “years of lead”—a period of authoritarianism and political violence between Morocco’s independence in 1956 and the death of King Hassan II in 1999—to examine the transformative roles memory and trauma play in reconstructing stories of three historically marginalized groups in Moroccan history: Berbers/Imazighen, Jews, and political prisoners.