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What A Difference A Death Makes: JFK, LBJ, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (2015)
Journal Article
Ling, P. (2015). What A Difference A Death Makes: JFK, LBJ, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Sixties, 8(2), 121-137. https://doi.org/10.1080/17541328.2015.1099835

When the Kennedy assassination occurred in November 1963, it was not clear that his civil rights bill would pass without major modifications, and most Americans told pollsters that they were unsure of his policy. Fifty years later, the passage of the... Read More about What A Difference A Death Makes: JFK, LBJ, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American (2015)
Book
Stauffer, J., Trodd, Z., & Bernier, C.-M. (2015). Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American. Liveright Publishing Corporation

Commemorating the bicentennial of Frederick Douglass’s birthday and featuring images discovered since its original publication in 2015, this “tour de force” (Library Journal, starred review) reintroduced Frederick Douglass to a twenty-first-century a... Read More about Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American.

The rise of the 'we' narrator in modern American fiction (2015)
Journal Article
Maxey, R. (2015). The rise of the 'we' narrator in modern American fiction. European Journal of American Studies, 10(2), Article 11068. https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.11068

Historically, the first-person plural narrator has been rare in US fiction, and it is both enigmatic and technically demanding. Yet an increasing number of American novelists and short story writers have turned to this formal device over the past 20... Read More about The rise of the 'we' narrator in modern American fiction.

Radicals in America: The U.S. Left since the Second World War (2015)
Book
Brick, H., & Phelps, C. (2015). Radicals in America: The U.S. Left since the Second World War. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139027700

© Howard Brick and Christopher Phelps 2015. All rights reserved. Radicals in America is a masterful history of controversial dissenters who pursued greater equality, freedom and democracy - and transformed the nation. Written with clarity and verve,... Read More about Radicals in America: The U.S. Left since the Second World War.

Discrepant Parallels (2015)
Book
Roberts, G. (2015). Discrepant Parallels. McGill-Queen's University Press

John Brown's spirit: the abolitionist aesthetic of emancipatory martyrdom in early antilynching protest literature (2015)
Journal Article
Trodd, Z. (2015). John Brown's spirit: the abolitionist aesthetic of emancipatory martyrdom in early antilynching protest literature. Journal of American Studies, 49(2), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875815000055

Before his execution in 1859, the radical abolitionist John Brown wrote a series of prison letters that – along with his death itself – helped to cement the abolitionist aesthetic of emancipatory martyrdom. This article charts the adaptation of that... Read More about John Brown's spirit: the abolitionist aesthetic of emancipatory martyrdom in early antilynching protest literature.