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Give Me Liberty! PLUS provides high-quality, curated sources that are easy to assign right from your campus learning management system. Join our Norton’s history editors as they reveal everything Give Me Liberty! PLUS has to offer.
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Continue celebrating Black History Month with W.W. Norton year-round with our history titles: bit.ly/40gkeKF

And, check out award-winners, The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne and Tamara Payne, On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed, and Black Folk by Blair LM Kelley!

#BlackHistoryMonth, #BlackHistory

For instructors who want to equip students with the historian’s toolkit, join Norton’s history editors for a tour of the scaffolded support available in Give Me Liberty. Learn how Norton's courseware gives students the enduring skills they need.

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Savings and Trust by Justene Hill Edwards, Before the Movement by Dylan C Penningroth, and America on Fire by Elizabeth Hinton highlight key narratives from the final decades of slavery in the U.S. through the present.

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For today’s Black History Month selections, we’re spotlighting The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed and Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman.

These powerful works unveil untold stories across America's history. #UntoldStories, #BlackHistoryMonth

Please join W. W. Norton History this week as we share some excellent reading selections for Black History Month!

Today, we're highlighting Born in Blackness and The Second Emancipation by Howard French. Check them out: bit.ly/40gkeKF

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Did you miss historian Matthew Pinsker's exclusive webinar? You can request a recording and learn to reinvent how you frame and teach Lincoln's political story and the importance of partisanship in the Civil War era and beyond.

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Acclaimed author of The Color of Money and How the Other Half Banks, Mehrsa Baradaran's new book illustrates the history behind America's systemic economic issues and the forces driving apart the economic fortunes of white and Black families across the country. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Join Professor Mehrsa Baradaran for a conversation about her new Norton Shorts title "The Racial Wealth Gap," offering a concise history of America's systemic economic issues and the differences between the economic fortunes of white and Black families. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Professor of history at Saint Louis University, Douglas Boin shares a thrilling new history of the late Roman Republic, told through one woman’s quest for justice. Request the recording now! seagull.wwnorton.com/ClodiaofRome...

Historian Douglas Boin turns the familiar story of Julius Caesar’s rise and the fall of the Roman Republic inside-out, showing how one woman’s quest for justice at a murder trial in April 56 B.C can inspire new ways of thinking about why the Roman republic collapsed.

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Norton's looking for Spring interns!
📚 hands-on experience in publishing
🤝 opportunities to network
🔎 insight into the publishing industry
The internship is a 12-week paid program with options to work in the NYC office or remotely.

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Kathleen DuVal, author of the Pulitzer-Prize winning Native Nations and co-author of the bestselling Give Me Liberty!, discusses why Native Americans fought on both sides of the Revolutionary War and how they protected their peoples' best interests in a time of war. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Lisa McGirr, co-author of the acclaimed Give Me Liberty!: An American History, discusses women’s participation in conservative and rightwing movements across the 20th century. Request a recording and explore the dynamics that motivated women’s participation. seagull.wwnorton.com/WomenandCons...

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In the JSH: “Emancipation, Incarceration, and the Boundaries of Coercion” (February 2022): muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...

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Join Lisa McGirr to discuss women’s participation in conservative and rightwing movements. Learn about their deployment of gendered and family ideals and explore the dynamics that motivated women’s participation in these movements.
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At the Southern Historical Association conference in St Pete Beach, FL? Check out sessions with our authors @profmsinha.bsky.social, Matthew Lockwood, Michael Honey, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, and Deborah Gray White. And stop by our booth #19 to pick up beach reading! @thesouthernsha.bsky.social #2025SHA

The Black Women Who Knew That Civil Rights Were Human Rights Black women's work linking U.S. and international rights is often overlooked.

"Women like McKinley were not only involved in efforts to expand civil rights at home but they were active in the fight to extend human rights [worldwide]."

Read WITHOUT FEAR author Keisha N. Blain's essay for TIME on Aretha B. McKinley:
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Opinion | These editor’s notes are poison. I learned from every drop. Working with Starling Lawrence, who died last month, was a bracing course in a vanishing art.

A fitting tribute to the tall man who used to haunt our halls. Thank you, @ignatiuspost.bsky.social. wapo.st/4gwjuZ8

During the Great Depression, This Black Educator Looked to Conflicts Abroad for Lessons on Fighting Racism at Home The Second Italo-Ethiopian War and the Spanish Civil War offered Melva L. Price and her fellow female activists an opportunity to examine the links between racism and fascism

Read @smithsonianmag.bsky.social's excerpt of Keisha N. Blain's WITHOUT FEAR, on sale tomorrow.
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The American Philosophical Society is hosting my book talk in person and remote Oct. 7. Register here:
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UNUM on the Road continued last week in North Carolina with historian @kathleenduval.bsky.social

A featured voice in THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION and recent winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Professor DuVal explores how disputes over Native land helped ignite the Revolutionary War.

Why is Christopher Columbus prompting political controversy in the United States more than 500 years after his 1506 death? The U.S. Capitol Historical Society hosted Columbus scholar Matthew Restall to provide answers.
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Life in the Firestorm The 21st century American city was forged in the embers of the 1970s arson wave.

The 21st century American city was forged in the embers of the 1970s arson wave. www.hnn.us/article/life...

Remembering Starling Lawrence (1943 - 2025), legendary editor of David Ignatius, Sebastian Junger, and Michael Lewis.
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