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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
D
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?
E
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
F
Free the Beaches: Fighting to Preserve Public Space in an Age of Privatization
G
Grass-Roots Organizing and Progressive Social Change: Lessons from History
H
"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
I
Interracial Activism in the Los Angeles Community Service Organization: Linking the World War II and Civil Rights Eras
J
Jane Addams: Queer or Gay?
Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of the Civil Rights Movement
L
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
M
#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
N
No Permanent Waves: Reimagining Histories of U.S. Feminism
O
Orchestrating Change: Women Activists and Political Mobilizations, 1830s–1920s
P
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
R
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
S
Starvation Politics: Hunger, Race, and Activism in 1960s–1970s America
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
T
"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
U
Understanding American Evangelicalism in the Age of Trump
Upending the Women's Liberation Movement Narrative: The Example of Seattle 1965-1975
W
"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
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