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A Battle for the Children: Comparing Indigenous Child Removal in the American West and Australia, 1880–1940

A Tale of Two Hamiltons: North American and Caribbean Connections

Abraham Lincoln, Citizen of the World

American Slave Systems in Comparative Perspective

Are We in a New Age? The Techno-Global Meets the Ethno-Fundamental

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Caribbean and North American Linkages in the Early Modern Era

Carter G. Woodson's Great Cause: The History of the Black History Movement

Civil Rights and Antiapartheid

Colonizing the Senses: New Sensory Regimes in Institutions for Indigenous Children, 1880–1900

Comparative Latinx Histories

Considering Transoceanic Connections: Atlantic and Pacific Networks in Early American History

Creating the Global Color Line: How Reconstruction in the United States Influenced the Development of European Empires in Africa

Crossing Borders: Globalizing U.S. History through Migration

Cuban Miami and the Rise of the New Right: The Uses of Transnational History

D

Democracy in Theory and Practice since the Ancient World

Disability and Eugenics in Global Context

Downton Abbey's American Kin: Upper-Class Marriage and Transnational Celebrity

E

Emancipation in the 1860s: Russia and the U. S. South

F

Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement

France and America in the Age of Revolutions

Free Speech in a Dangerous World: Teaching History in China and the United States

G

Globalizing the Declaration of Independence

Globetrotters, Border Crossers, and the Tangled Tales of the Borderlands and the World

H

His Lover and Friend Too, in Which a Hawaiian Chief Takes an English Captain as a Lover, Explores the Pacific, Cultivates His Power, Is Killed in Battle, and Changes the Way We Think about the "Age of Exploration"

Historians and the History of American State Building

I

If Everyone Cared: Transnational Indigenous Women’s Activism and Indigenous Child Welfare, 1960–1980

Indigenous Children's Rights and Settler Colonial Wrongs: Truth and Reconciliation in Canada, Australia, and the United States

International Currents in the American Civil War

M

Marriage through the Mail: Correspondence Marriage across Borders

Martin Luther King Jr. and Global Liberation

Modern Indian Protests in the United States and Canada

N

"New York is like Johannesburg": The Global Dimensions of the African American Freedom Movement

Nation of Outposts: The Deep History of the American Military Base Empire

S

Seeing Beyond the Oceans: The Instructional Challenges of History in Global Context

T

The American Civil Rights Movement in Global Perspective

The American Revolution in a Global Context

The American Revolution in Global Perspective

The Black Experience in Britain

The Gender of Poverty: How Women Overseas Became the Deserving Poor

The Greatest Generation and its Global Legacy

The International Turn in Intellectual History

The Many Panics of 1837: People, Politics, and the Creation of a Transatlantic Financial Crisis

The Other Emancipation of the 1860s: A Comparative Perspective on Freeing Russia's Serfs

The Problem of Water Scarcity in the American West in a Comparative Perspective

The Townshend Moment: How Two Brothers Initiated an Age of the Atlantic Revolution

The United States and Russia, 1917–2017: From Lenin to Trump

Toward a Comparative and Relational Chicana/o Studies

Transatlantic Cowboys: The Mythic West in Europe from Old Shatterhand to Tex Willer

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U. S. Emancipation in Historical and Comparative Perspective

U.S. Feminisms in a Global Context

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Welcome to Fairyland: Miami and the Retelling of U.S. LGBTQ History

When the United States Spoke French: The Early American Republic in the Age of the French Revolution

White Slavery, National Freedoms: Race, Labor, and Sex in the Making of a Transnational Moral Panic

Women's Labors as the World's Work: The Transnational Reach of U.S. Labor Feminism

Women, Intimacy, and Mixed Race Families, Across the Mexico-U.S. Borderlands