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A Century of Suffrage . . . and Struggle

A Century of the Black History Movement

A Vietnamese African American: Robert S. Browne and the Antiwar Movement

African American Social Movements

“A Day without Sunshine”: History and Mythmaking in the 1978 Orange Juice Boycott

B

Beyond the Sex Wars: Histories of Antipornography Feminism

Black Nationalism and the Black Power Movement

Bridging Scholarship and Activism and Forging an Agenda for Social Justice

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Dangerous Pregnancies: How an Epidemic Pushed Forward Women's Reproductive Rights

Democratic Promise: Why We Can Still Find Hope in American Populist Traditions

Did the Abolitionists Cause the Civil War?

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Ecstatic Utopians: The Radical Women's Liberation Movement, 1960-1980

Every Body: A History of Disability in the United States

Everyday Utopia: Pop Culture, Social Movements, and the Politics of the Possible

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Free the Beaches: Fighting to Preserve Public Space in an Age of Privatization

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Grass-Roots Organizing and Progressive Social Change: Lessons from History

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"How Powerful is the Ideal, Sweeping across Space and Time": Emma Goldman and Anarchist Precedents to the Global Occupy Movements

History of the Black Panther Party

History of the Black Power Movement

History of the Black Power Movement (focused on Oakland and California)

How the Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, and Black Lives Matter Shaped the 2016 Presidential Election

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Interracial Activism in the Los Angeles Community Service Organization: Linking the World War II and Civil Rights Eras

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Jane Addams: Queer or Gay?

Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of the Civil Rights Movement

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Legacies and Reinterpretations of the 1960s' Social Movements

Lost in the U.S.A.: A New Age Search for Order

Lost in the U.S.A.: The 1990s Marches as a Referendum on America

Love Canal and the American Dream: Grassroots Activism at America's Most Notorious Environmental Place

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#MeToo, Carry Nation, and Why It’s Time to Revisit the History of the Temperance Movement

Material Interests and Economic Realities in the Wars over Feminism in the U.S. in the 1970s

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No Permanent Waves: Reimagining Histories of U.S. Feminism

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Orchestrating Change: Women Activists and Political Mobilizations, 1830s–1920s

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People Power: What Americans Did, Didn't, and Still Could Learn from One of the Twentieth Century's Great Nonviolent Revolutions

Power and Protest in the 1960s

Progressivism and the American Eugenics Movement

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Re-Democratizing the Progressive Era: Why How We Look at The Politics of Reform A Century Ago Still Matters

Recy Taylor and the Roots of the #MeToo Movement

Remembering Our KKK Past

Remembering the 1968 Women's Liberation Miss America Protest, Fifty Years Later

Rethinking Nina Simone as an Icon in an Age of Black Lives Matter Activism

Rethinking the "New Negro" Movement, 1917-1930

Rethinking the Chicano Movement: Mexican Americans, Latinos, and the Meaning of Citizenship

Revolution in Babylon: Stokely Carmichael and America in the 1960s

Rights, Capabilities, and Solidarities: Bridging Civil Rights and Labor Organizing for Economic Democracy

Rioting in American History

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Starvation Politics: Hunger, Race, and Activism in 1960s–1970s America

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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"The Rising Tide of Color": The New Negro Renaissance as a Global Movement

Telling Disability Stories: Legacies, Imaginations, Coalitions

The Abolitionist International: Anatomy of a Radical Social Movement

The American Disability Rights Movement

The Antiwar Movement in the United States during World War I

The Black Radical Tradition

The Civil Rights Movement Reconsidered: A Battle against the "Plantation Mentality"

The Civil Rights Movement: America's Best Idea

The Counterculture and the Environmental Movement

The Divided Homefront: African American Politics and Protest during World War I and World War II

The ERA’s Unfinished History

The Forward Together / Moral Monday Movement

The G.I. Antiwar Movement in Vietnam

The Great Force of History: Collective Memory, White Innocence, and Making Black Lives Matter

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle: The Million Mom March for Gun Control

The Harlem Renaissance

The Legacy of Progressivism in the Trump Era

The Much Misunderstood Women's Liberation Movement

The New Economy Movement

The Resistant Body: Female Hunger Strikers in the Twentieth Century

The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria

The Supreme Court, Social Change, and Political Backlash

The Theatrical Roots of Modern Feminism

Thinking About Thoreau in a Time of Resistance

Trigger Warnings, Racist Symbols, and Free Speech: American Campuses Today

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Understanding American Evangelicalism in the Age of Trump

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"We Took Our Struggle to the Streets": The Sacred and the Profane in the History of Gospel Music

Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America

Why Women's Movements Matter

Women and Feminism in the Trump Era

Women's Rights, Civil Rights, and Human Rights from Eleanor Roosevelt to the Women's Marchers

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45 Years of Arguing about Reproduction Control