American Society for Ethnohistory Virtual Exhibit

Welcome to the UNC Press Virtual Exhibit for the American Society for Ethnohistory.

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Titles on Display

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by Joshua Mentanko

The Power to Harm and Heal

Intercultural Medicine in Modern Mexico

Joshua Mentanko

by Erin B. Kramer

The Ancient House

Constructing Community in the Seventeenth-Century New York Borderlands

Erin B. Kramer

by Warren Eugene Milteer Jr.

Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom

Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era

Warren Eugene Milteer Jr.

by Alyssa A. Hunziker

Histories in Common

Native American Literatures, Extra Archives, and the Indigenous Transpacific

Alyssa A. Hunziker

by Joseph Weiss

Irreconcilable

Indigeneity and the Violence of Colonial Erasure in Contemporary Canada

Joseph Weiss

by Tisa Wenger

Spirits of Empire

How Settler Colonialism Made American Religion

Tisa Wenger

by Rana Barakat

Ongoing Return

Mapping Memory and Storytelling in Palestine

Rana Barakat

by Colleen O’Neill

Waging Sovereignty

Native Americans and the Transformation of Work in the Twentieth Century

Colleen O’Neill

by Julie L. Reed

Land, Language, and Women

A Cherokee and American Educational History

Julie L. Reed

by Fernando Armstrong-Fumero

Roads to Prosperity and Ruin

Infrastructure and the Making of Neoliberal Yucatán

Fernando Armstrong-Fumero

by Jessica M. Lepler

Canal Dreamers

The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions

Jessica M. Lepler

by Andrew C. Isenberg

The Age of the Borderlands

Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790–1850

Andrew C. Isenberg

by Maria John

Sovereign Bodies, Sovereign Spaces

Urban Indigenous Health Activism in the United States and Australia

Maria John

by Fay A. Yarbrough

Choctaw Confederates

The American Civil War in Indian Country

Fay A. Yarbrough

by Nicole Eustace, Fredrika J. Teute

Warring for America

Cultural Contests in the Era of 1812

Nicole Eustace, Fredrika J. Teute

by Sakina M. Hughes

Music, Muscle, and Masterful Arts

Black and Indigenous Performers of the Circus Age

Sakina M. Hughes

by Alicia Carroll

Indiscipline

Reading Collaboratively Written Native American Autobiography

Alicia Carroll

by Phillip H. Round

Inscribing Sovereignties

Writing Community in Native North America

Phillip H. Round

by Michael Steven Wilson, José Antonio Lucero

What Side Are You On?

A Tohono O'odham Life across Borders

Michael Steven Wilson, José Antonio Lucero

by Maureen Konkle

What Jane Knew

Anishinaabe Stories and American Imperialism, 1815–1845

Maureen Konkle

by Jean Dennison

Vital Relations

How the Osage Nation Moves Indigenous Nationhood into the Future

Jean Dennison

by Ryan Emanuel

On the Swamp

Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice

Ryan Emanuel

by Shelby Johnson

The Rich Earth between Us

The Intimate Grounds of Race and Sexuality in the Atlantic World, 1770–1840

Shelby Johnson

by Alex Benson

Sound-Blind

American Literature and the Politics of Transcription

Alex Benson

by John William Nelson

Muddy Ground

Native Peoples, Chicago's Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent

John William Nelson

by Wayne E. Lee

The Cutting-Off Way

Indigenous Warfare in Eastern North America, 1500–1800

Wayne E. Lee

by Michael John Witgen

Seeing Red

Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America

Michael John Witgen

by Kathryn Walkiewicz

Reading Territory

Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State

Kathryn Walkiewicz

by Stephen Kantrowitz

Citizens of a Stolen Land

A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States

Stephen Kantrowitz

by Pascal Lupien

Indigenous Civil Society in Latin America

Collective Action in the Digital Age

Pascal Lupien

by Samantha Seeley

Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain

Migration and the Making of the United States

Samantha Seeley

by Sarah Foss

On Our Own Terms

Development and Indigeneity in Cold War Guatemala

Sarah Foss

by Caroline Wigginton

Indigenuity

Native Craftwork and the Art of American Literatures

Caroline Wigginton

by Andrea Geiger

Converging Empires

Citizens and Subjects in the North Pacific Borderlands, 1867–1945

Andrea Geiger

by Christine Taitano DeLisle

Placental Politics

CHamoru Women, White Womanhood, and Indigeneity under U.S. Colonialism in Guam

Christine Taitano DeLisle

by Kevin Bruyneel

Settler Memory

The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States

Kevin Bruyneel

by Warren Eugene Milteer Jr.

Beyond Slavery's Shadow

Free People of Color in the South

Warren Eugene Milteer Jr.

by Malinda Maynor Lowery

The Lumbee Indians

An American Struggle

Malinda Maynor Lowery

by Cathleen D. Cahill

Recasting the Vote

How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement

Cathleen D. Cahill

by Helen C. Rountree, Wesley D. Taukchiray

Manteo's World

Native American Life in Carolina's Sound Country before and after the Lost Colony

Helen C. Rountree, Wesley D. Taukchiray

by Juliana Hu Pegues

Space-Time Colonialism

Alaska's Indigenous and Asian Entanglements

Juliana Hu Pegues

by Finis Dunaway

Defending the Arctic Refuge

A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice

Finis Dunaway

by Robert G. Parkinson

Thirteen Clocks

How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence

Robert G. Parkinson

by Jonathan Todd Hancock

Convulsed States

Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Remaking of Early America

Jonathan Todd Hancock

by Susan Burch

Committed

Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions

Susan Burch

by Katrina Phillips

Staging Indigeneity

Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History

Katrina Phillips

by Tisa Wenger

Religious Freedom

The Contested History of an American Ideal

Tisa Wenger

by Miguel La Serna

With Masses and Arms

Peru's Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement

Miguel La Serna

by Luis Hernández Navarro, Ramor Ryan

Self-Defense in Mexico

Indigenous Community Policing and the New Dirty Wars

Luis Hernández Navarro, Ramor Ryan

by Allison Margaret Bigelow

Mining Language

Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World

Allison Margaret Bigelow

by Ryan Hall

Beneath the Backbone of the World

Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720–1877

Ryan Hall

by Jeffrey Alan Erbig Jr.

Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met

Border Making in Eighteenth-Century South America

Jeffrey Alan Erbig Jr.

by Kelly Lytle Hernández

City of Inmates

Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965

Kelly Lytle Hernández

by John W. Troutman

Kika Kila

How the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Changed the Sound of Modern Music

John W. Troutman

by Susan Sleeper-Smith

Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest

Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792

Susan Sleeper-Smith

by Céline Carayon

Eloquence Embodied

Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas

Céline Carayon

by Maurice S. Crandall

These People Have Always Been a Republic

Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598–1912

Maurice S. Crandall

by Shannon Speed

Incarcerated Stories

Indigenous Women Migrants and Violence in the Settler-Capitalist State

Shannon Speed

by Brianna Theobald

Reproduction on the Reservation

Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century

Brianna Theobald

by Robert T. Chase

Caging Borders and Carceral States

Incarcerations, Immigration Detentions, and Resistance

Robert T. Chase

by Courtney Lewis

Sovereign Entrepreneurs

Cherokee Small-Business Owners and the Making of Economic Sovereignty

Courtney Lewis

by Douglas K. Miller

Indians on the Move

Native American Mobility and Urbanization in the Twentieth Century

Douglas K. Miller

by Lisa Blee, Jean M. O'Brien

Monumental Mobility

The Memory Work of Massasoit

Lisa Blee, Jean M. O'Brien

by Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote

Crafting an Indigenous Nation

Kiowa Expressive Culture in the Progressive Era

Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote

by Robert G. Parkinson

The Common Cause

Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution

Robert G. Parkinson

by Andrew Newman

Allegories of Encounter

Colonial Literacy and Indian Captivities

Andrew Newman

by Angela Calcaterra

Literary Indians

Aesthetics and Encounter in American Literature to 1920

Angela Calcaterra

by Gloria Elizabeth Chacón

Indigenous Cosmolectics

Kab'awil and the Making of Maya and Zapotec Literatures

Gloria Elizabeth Chacón

by Oscar de la Torre

The People of the River

Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia, 1835–1945

Oscar de la Torre

by Mark Rice

Making Machu Picchu

The Politics of Tourism in Twentieth-Century Peru

Mark Rice

by Sherwin K. Bryant

Rivers of Gold, Lives of Bondage

Governing through Slavery in Colonial Quito

Sherwin K. Bryant

by Jeffrey M. Schulze

Are We Not Foreigners Here?

Indigenous Nationalism in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Jeffrey M. Schulze

by Stephanie Nohelani Teves

Defiant Indigeneity

The Politics of Hawaiian Performance

Stephanie Nohelani Teves

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