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Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte is the first US scholarly examination of the politician and caco leader (guerrilla fighter) who fought against the US military occupation of Haiti. The occupation lasted close to two decades, from 1915-1934. Alexis argues for the importance of documenting resistance while exploring the occupation’s mechanics and its imperialism. She takes us to Haiti, exploring the sites of what she labels as resistance zones, including Péralte’s hometown of Hinche and the nation’s large port areas--Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haïtien. Alexis offers a new reading of US military archival sources that record Haitian protests as banditry. Haiti Fights Back illuminates how Péralte launched a political movement, and meticulously captures how Haitian women and men resisted occupation through silence, military battles, and writings. She locates and assembles rare, multilingual primary sources from traditional repositories, living archives (oral stories), and artistic representations in Haiti and the United States. The interdisciplinary work draws on legislation, cacos’ letters, newspapers, and murals, offering a unique examination of Péralte’s life (1885-1919) and the significance of his legacy through the 21st century. Haiti Fights Back offers a new approach to the study of the US invasion of the Americas by chronicling how Caribbean people fought back.

Winner of the Best Book Award in Comics History from the Grand Comics Database Honorable Mention, 2019-2020 Research Society for American Periodicals Book PrizeThe term \"graphic novel\" was first coined in 1964, but it wouldn't be broadly used until the 1980s, when graphic novels such as Watchmen and Maus achieved commercial success and critical acclaim. What happened in the intervening years, after the graphic novel was conceptualized yet before it was widely recognized? Dreaming the Graphic Novel examines how notions of the graphic novel began to coalesce in the 1970s, a time of great change for American comics, with declining sales of mainstream periodicals, the arrival of specialty comics stores, and (at least initially) a thriving underground comix scene. Surveying the eclectic array of long comics narratives that emerged from this fertile period, Paul Williams investigates many texts that have fallen out of graphic novel history. As he demonstrates, the question of what makes a text a 'graphic novel' was the subject of fierce debate among fans, creators, and publishers, inspiring arguments about the literariness of comics that are still taking place among scholars today. Unearthing a treasure trove of fanzines, adverts, and unpublished letters, Dreaming the Graphic Novel gives readers an exciting inside look at a pivotal moment in the art form's development. 

What does it mean to turn the public library or museum into a civic forum?Made in Newarkdescribes a turbulent industrial city at the dawn of the twentieth century and the ways it inspired the library's outspoken director, John Cotton Dana, to collaborate with industrialists, social workers, educators, and New Women.This is the story of experimental exhibitions in the library and the founding of the Newark Museum Associationùa project in which cultural literacy was intertwined with civics and consumption. Local artisans demonstrated crafts, connecting the cultural institution to the department store, school, and factory, all of which invoked the ideal of municipal patriotism. Today, as cultural institutions reappraise their relevance,Made in Newarkexplores precedents for contemporary debates over the ways the library and museum engage communities, define heritage in a multicultural era, and add value to the economy.

This interdisciplinary study explores how US Mexicana and Chicana authors and artists across different historical periods and regions use domestic space to actively claim their own histories. Through \"negotiation\"-a concept that accounts for artistic practices outside the duality of resistance/accommodation-and \"self-fashioning,\" Marci R. McMahon demonstrates how the very sites of domesticity are used to engage the many political and recurring debates about race, gender, and immigration affecting Mexicanas and Chicanas from the early twentieth century to today.Domestic Negotiationscovers a range of archival sources and cultural productions, including the self-fashioning of the \"chili queens\" of San Antonio, Texas, Jovita González's romance novelCaballero, the home economics career and cookbooks of Fabiola Cabeza de Baca, Sandra Cisneros's \"purple house controversy\" and her acclaimed textThe House on Mango Street, Patssi Valdez's self-fashioning and performance of domestic space in Asco and as a solo artist, Diane Rodríguez's performance of domesticity in Hollywood television and direction of domestic roles in theater, and Alma López's digital prints of domestic labor in Los Angeles. With intimate close readings, McMahon shows how Mexicanas and Chicanas shape domestic space to construct identities outside of gendered, racialized, and xenophobic rhetoric.

The \"hush\" of the title comes suddenly, when first Elizabeth Cady Stanton dies on October 26, 1902, and three years later Susan B. Anthony dies on March 13, 1906. It is sudden because Stanton, despite near blindness and immobility, wrote so intently right to the end that editors had supplies of her articles on hand to publish several months after her death. It is sudden because Anthony, at the age of eighty-five, set off for one more transcontinental trip, telling a friend on the Pacific Coast, \"it will be just as well if I come to the end on the cars, or anywhere, as to be at home.\" Volume VI of this extraordinary series of selected papers is inescapably about endings, death, and silence. But death happens here to women still in the fight.An Awful Hushis about reformers trained \"in the school of anti-slavery\" trying to practice their craft in the age of Jim Crow and a new American Empire. It recounts new challenges to \"an aristocracy of sex,\" whether among the bishops of the Episcopal church, the voters of California, or the trustees of the University of Rochester. And it sends last messages about woman suffrage. As Stanton wrote to Theodore Roosevelt on the day before she died, \"Surely there is no greater monopoly than that of all men, in denying to all women a voice in the laws they are compelled to obey.\" With the publication of Volume VI, this series is now complete.

The early Cold War (1947-1964) was a time of optimism in America. Flushed with confidence by the Second World War, many heralded the American Century and saw postwar affluence as proof that capitalism would solve want and poverty. Yet this period also filled people with anxiety. Beyond the specter of nuclear annihilation, the consumerism and affluence of capitalism's success were seen as turning the sons of pioneers into couch potatoes.InDiscipline and Indulgence, Jeffrey Montez de Oca demonstrates how popular culture, especially college football, addressed capitalism's contradictions by integrating men into the economy of the Cold War as workers, warriors, and consumers. In the dawning television age, college football provided a ritual and spectacle of the American way of life that anyone could participate in from the comfort of his own home. College football formed an ethical space of patriotic pageantry where men could produce themselves as citizens of the Cold War state. Based on a theoretically sophisticated analysis of Cold War media,Discipline and Indulgenceassesses the period's institutional linkage of sport, higher education, media, and militarism and finds the connections of contemporary sport media to today's War on Terror.

During the Apr 24 and 25 online conference, the theme \"Let Your Light So Shine\" was reflected beautifully in the inspiring speeches and well-deserved awards. As in recent years, the award presentations were a highlight. The Regina Medal was awarded to Ruta Sepetys, author of eight young adult books. She is known for giving voice to overlooked histories and those who lived them. Sepetys often begins her storytelling with the question: \"What's in your suitcase?\" Marc Tyler Nobleman received the Drexel Award for his compelling use of primary sources in crafting creative nonfiction. His presentation emphasized the impact one person can have on history, and his strong personal commitment to justice shone through. Dr. Mary Healy, professor of Hebrew Scripture at Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit, was honored with the Jerome Award. She is a general editor of the Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture series, one of the first three women to serve on the Pontifical Biblical Commission, and a consultor to a Roman dicastery. Her work in the charismatic renewal has also deeply shaped her vocation. The conference concluded with the installation of new officers and a memorial service honoring deceased members.

In 1968, Winthrop D. Jordan set out in encyclopedic detail the evolution of white Englishmen's and Anglo-Americans' perceptions of blacks, perceptions of difference used to justify race-based slavery, and liberty and justice for whites only. This second edition, with new forewords by historians Christopher Leslie Brown and Peter H. Wood, reminds us that Jordan's text is still the definitive work on the history of race in America in the colonial era. Every book published to this day on slavery and racism builds upon his work; all are judged in comparison to it; none has surpassed it.

With recent revelations about the levels of abuse and death in these institutions (see NoiseCat & Kassie, 2024) as well as ongoing efforts to repatriate the remains of those who died at the boarding schools back to the lands and tribes from which they were originally taken (see NARE, 2023), Stealing Little Moon is a timely and even urgent opportunity for middle grades readers to grapple with the intersections of land, people, time, and power, as well as how those can contribute to perpetual ignominy specific to places like the residential boarding schools. Along with the Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children and the Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children, the Orbis Pietus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children is one of NCTE's Children's Book and Poetry Awards (see NCTE, n.d.). Since 1989, the Orbis Pietus Award Committee-made up of a rotating group of professors, teachers, and children's literature enthusiasts who are also NCTE members-have read and discussed hundreds of nonfiction titles each year to award one winner, up to five honor books, and up to eight additional recommended titles. A selection of the recently announced 2025 Orbis Pietus Honor and Recommended books further showcases the rich variety of real places explored and considered in children's nonfiction, which is evident by their titles alone: □ Borderlands and the Mexican American Story (Romo, 2024) □ Life after Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall (Brunelle, 2024, J. Chin, Illus.) □ Space: The Final Pooping Frontier (Bondor-Stone & White, 2024, L. Kenseth, Illus.) □ Urban Coyotes (Carson, 2024, T. Uhlman, Photog.) Applications to join any of NCTE's Children's Book and Poetry Award committees, including the Orbis Pietus Award, are open to members through the NCTE website with new members selected by the current awards chairs, so if you have a passion for considering how real settings intersect with notions of place in nonfiction literature (along with all of the other facets of great nonfiction literature) consider putting your name in consideration to get involved.

(ILA, n.d.b) The ILA publishes well-known journals like The Reading Teacher, Reading Research Quarterly, and Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, including ideas, research, and evidence-based practice to support educators in supporting students. [...]their free advocacy toolkit Advocating for Children's Rights to Read (2024) is a timely resource as many communities globally are dealing with censorship challenges and book bans. The ILA Children's and Young Adult Book Awards (n.d.a) honour newly published authors in fiction and nonfiction and cover three age categories including primary (preschool to 8 years), intermediate (9-13 years), and young adult (14-17 years). Pork Belly Tacos with a Side of Anxiety: My Journey through Depression, Bulimia, and Addiction by Yvonne Castañeda (2022) shares her experiences as a child of Mexican and Cuban immigrants to the US and how her attempts to fit into the cultural norms of all sides led to severe physical and mental health problems.