The American Experiment: A Reading List
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Becoming La Raza
Negotiating Race in the Chican@ Movement(s)
José G. Izaguirre III
The Pink Scar
How Nazi Persecution Shaped the Struggle for LGBTQ+ Rights
Thomas R. Dunn
African American Artists and the New Deal Art Programs
Opportunity, Access, and Community
Mary Ann Calo, and Epilogue by Jacqueline Francis
Sound Tactics
Auditory Power in Political Protests
Justin Eckstein
Collective Courage
A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
Jessica Gordon Nembhard
Struggle for the City
Citizenship and Resistance in the Black Freedom Movement
Derek G. Handley
Combating Hate
A Framework for Direct Action
Billie Murray
A Black Philadelphia Reader
African American Writings About the City of Brotherly Love
Edited by Louis J. Parascandola
An Uncommon Woman
The Life of Lydia Hamilton Smith
Mark Kelley
Temperance and Cosmopolitanism
African American Reformers in the Atlantic World
Carole Lynn Stewart
Out in Central Pennsylvania
The History of an LGBTQ Community
William Burton with Barry Loveland
The War Against Tuberculosis
Samuel G. Dixon and the Rise of Modern Public Health in Pennsylvania
James E. Higgins
Pennhurst and the Struggle for Disability Rights
Edited by Dennis B. Downey, James W. Conroy, Foreword by Dick Thornburgh, and Ginny Thornburgh
The Schenley Experiment
A Social History of Pittsburgh’s First Public High School
Jake Oresick
The Other American Moderns
Matsura, Ishigaki, Noda, Hayakawa
ShiPu Wang
Pier Groups
Art and Sex Along the New York Waterfront
Jonathan Weinberg
Practicing Citizenship
Women’s Rhetoric at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair
Kristy Maddux
A Matter of Simple Justice
The Untold Story of Barbara Hackman Franklin and a Few Good Women
Lee Stout
Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond
Gwendolyn Bennett’s Selected Writings
Edited by Belinda Wheeler and Louis J. Parascandola
Plowshares
Protest, Performance, and Religious Identity in the Nuclear Age
Kristen Tobey
Nothing but Love in God's Water
Volume 1: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement
Robert Darden
Nothing but Love in God’s Water
Volume 2: Black Sacred Music from Sit-Ins to Resurrection City
Robert Darden
Posters for Peace
Visual Rhetoric and Civic Action
Thomas W. Benson
At Work in Penn's Woods
The Civilian Conservation Corps in Pennsylvania
Joseph M. Speakman
Riot and Revelry in Early America
Edited by William A. Pencak, Simon Newman, and Matthew Dennis
David Walker’s Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World
Edited by Peter P. Hinks
Civil Rights and Social Wrongs
Black-White Relations Since World War II
Edited by John Higham
Don’t Burn it Here
Grassroots Challenges to Trash Incinerators
Ed Walsh, Rex Warland, and Douglas Clayton Smith
To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren
David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance
Peter P. Hinks
Integrating the Sixties
The Origins, Structures, and Legitimacy of Public Policy in a Turbulent Decade
Edited by Brian Balogh
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