HOCTUS 2021

HOTCUS 2021 Plenary Speaker – Professor Connie Y. Chiang

Connie Y. Chiang is Professor of History and Environmental Studies at Bowdoin College. Professor Chiang has published extensively in the field of environmental history and the history of the United States.

Her published works include Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast (University of Washington Press, 2008)


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A Constitution for the Living
Imagining How Five Generations of Americans Would Rewrite the Nation’s Fundamental Law
Beau Breslin
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

An Illustrated Business History of the United States
Richard Vague
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

Shaping the Shoreline
Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast
Connie Y. Chiang
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS


New in American History

1962

Baseball and America in the Time of JFK

David Krell

After Nationalism

Being American in an Age of Division

Samuel Goldman

An Illustrated Business History of the United States

Richard Vague

Antiquity in Gotham

The Ancient Architecture of New York City

Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis

At Home in the World

California Women and the Postwar Environmental Movement

Kathleen A. Cairns

Atmospheric Noise

The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles

Marina Peterson

Backcountry Ghosts

California Homesteaders and the Making of a Dubious Dream

Josh Sides

Battle Green Vietnam

The 1971 March on Concord, Lexington, and Boston

Elise Lemire

Blue-Collar Conservatism

Frank Rizzo's Philadelphia and Populist Politics

Timothy J. Lombardo

A Constitution for the Living

Imagining How Five Generations of Americans Would Rewrite the Nation's Fundamental Law

Beau Breslin

The Contest

The 1968 Election and the War for America's Soul

Michael Schumacher

Divorce, American Style

Fighting for Women's Economic Citizenship in the Neoliberal Era

Suzanne Kahn

Eunice Hunton Carter

A Lifelong Fight for Social Justice

Marilyn Greenwald, Yun Li

Fight the Power

African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City

Clarence Taylor

From a Taller Tower

The Rise of the American Mass Shooter

Seamus McGraw

Fruit, Fiber, and Fire

A History of Modern Agriculture in New Mexico

William R. Carleton

Gilded Age Cocktails

History, Lore, and Recipes from America's Golden Age

Cecelia Tichi

The Life and Times of Louis Lomax

The Art of Deliberate Disunity

Thomas Aiello

Madam C. J. Walker's Gospel of Giving

Black Women's Philanthropy during Jim Crow

Tyrone McKinley Freeman

Nuclear Suburbs

Cold War Technoscience and the Pittsburgh Renaissance

Patrick Vitale

Presumed Criminal

Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York

Carl Suddler

The Pride of Minnesota

The Twins in the Turbulent 1960s

Thom Henninger

Rebel Imaginaries

Labor, Culture, and Politics in Depression-Era California

Elizabeth E. Sine

Sugar, Cigars, and Revolution

The Making of Cuban New York

Lisandro Pérez

Forthcoming

The Black Intellectual Tradition

African American Thought in the Twentieth Century

Derrick P. Alridge, Cornelius L. Bynum, James B Stewart, Derrick P. Alridge, Keisha N. Blain, Cornelius L. Bynum, Jeffrey Lamar Coleman, Pero Gaglo Dagbovie, Stephanie Y. Evans, Aaron David Gresson, Claudrena N. Harold, Leonard Harris, Maurice J. Hobson, La TaSha B. Levy, Layli Maparyan, Zebulon V. Miletsky, R. Baxter Miller, Edward Onaci, Venetria K. Patton, James B Stewart, Nikki M. Taylor

Black Montana

Settler Colonialism and the Erosion of the Racial Frontier, 1877–1930

Anthony W. Wood

California and Hawai'i Bound

U.S. Settler Colonialism and the Pacific West, 1848-1959

Henry Knight Lozano

Dirty Works

Obscenity on Trial in America’s First Sexual Revolution

Brett Gary

The Ends of Modernization

Nicaragua and the United States in the Cold War Era

David Johnson Lee

Enemies among Us

The Relocation, Internment, and Repatriation of German, Italian, and Japanese Americans during the Second World War

John E. Schmitz

Far-Right Vanguard

The Radical Roots of Modern Conservatism

John S. Huntington

Follies in America

A History of Garden and Park Architecture

Kerry Dean Carso

Legacies of Dust

Land Use and Labor on the Colorado Plains

Douglas Sheflin

Love for Liberation

African Independence, Black Power, and a Diaspora Underground

Robin J. Hayes

Mexican Americans with Moxie

A Transgenerational History of El Movimiento Chicano in Ventura County, California, 1945–1975

Frank P. Barajas

Open Hearts, Closed Doors

Immigration Reform and the Waning of Mainline Protestantism

Nicholas T. Pruitt


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Atmospheric Noise

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Rebel Imaginaries

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The Life and Times of Louis Lomax

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