Nyu Press: 1737 books
The Tolerance Trap
How God, Genes, and Good Intentions are Sabotaging Gay Equality
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
From Glee to gay marriage, from lesbian senators to out gay Marines, we have undoubtedly experienced a seismic shift in attitudes about gays in American politics and culture. Our reigning national story is that a new era of rainbow acceptance is at hand. But dig a bit deeper, and this seemingly...
License to Wed
What Legal Marriage Means to Same-Sex Couples
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
A critical reader of the history of marriage understands that it is an institution that has always been in flux. It is also a decidedly complicated one, existing simultaneously in the realms of religion, law, and emotion. And yet recent years have seen dramatic and heavily waged battles over the proposition...
Feminist Legal History
Essays on Women and Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Attuned to the social contexts within which laws are created, feminist lawyers, historians, and activists have long recognized the discontinuities and contradictions that lie at the heart of efforts to transform the law in ways that fully serve women’s interests. At its core, the nascent field of...
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood
Celebrity Gossip and American Conservatism
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
Before Liz Smith and Perez Hilton became household names in the world of celebrity gossip, before Rush Limbaugh became the voice of conservatism, there was Hedda Hopper. In 1938, this 52-year-old struggling actress rose to fame and influence writing an incendiary gossip column, “Hedda Hopper’s...
Trotskyists on Trial
Free Speech and Political Persecution Since the Age of FDR
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Passed in June 1940, the Smith Act was a peacetime anti-sedition law that marked a dramatic shift in the legal definition of free speech protection in America by criminalizing the advocacy of disloyalty to the government by force. It also criminalized the acts of printing, publishing, or distributing...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1998
First published in 1797, The Columbian Orator helped shape the American mind for the next half century, going through some 23 editions and totaling 200,000 copies in sales. The book was read by virtually every American schoolboy in the first half of the 19th century. As a slave youth, Frederick Douglass...
The Counter-Revolution of 1776
Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans then residing in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with London. In this trailblazing book, Gerald Horne complements his earlier celebrated Negro...
Hollywood’s Spies
The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Finalist, Celebrate 350 Award in American Jewish Studies
Tells the remarkable story of the Jewish moguls in Hollywood who established the first anti-Nazi Jewish resistance organization in the country in the 1930s
In April 1939, Warner Brothers studios released the first Hollywood film...
Fever of War
The Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2005
The influenza epidemic of 1918 killed more people in one year than the Great War killed in four, sickening at least one quarter of the world's population. In Fever of War, Carol R. Byerly uncovers the startling impact of the 1918 influenza epidemic on the American army, its medical officers, and their...
Medical Malpractice in Nineteenth-Century America
Origins and Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1992
Highly readable . . . . interdisciplinary history of a high order.
-- The Historian
Well-written and superbly documented . . . . Both physicians and lawyers will find this book useful and fascinating.
-- Journal of the American Medical Association
This is the first book-length historical study of...
Artificial Parts, Practical Lives
Modern Histories of Prosthetics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
From the wooden teeth of George Washington to the Bly prosthesis, popular in the 1860s and boasting easy uniform motions of the limb, to today's lifelike approximations, prosthetic devices reveal the extent to which the evolution and design of technologies of the body are intertwined with both the...
Making Men Moral
Social Engineering During the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
On May 29, 1917, Mrs. E. M. Craise, citizen of Denver, Colorado, penned a letter to President Woodrow Wilson, which concluded, We have surrendered to your absolute control our hearts' dearest treasures--our sons. If their precious bodies that have cost us so dear should be torn to shreds by German...
Female Intelligence
Women and Espionage in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
When the Germans invaded her small Belgian village in 1914, Marthe Cnockaert’s home was burned and her family separated. After getting a job at a German hospital, and winning the Iron Cross for her service to the Reich, she was approached by a neighbor and invited to become an intelligence agent...
General Richard Montgomery and the American Revolution
From Redcoat to Rebel
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
Brave, humane, and generous . . . still he was only a brave, humane, and generous rebel; curse on his virtues, they've undone this country.
--Member of British Parliament Lord North, upon hearing of General Richard Montgomery's death in battle against the British
At 3 a.m. on December 31, 1775, a...