Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Jackson, Robert L. / McLaughlin, Sean J. / Owens, S. M., The Finest Place We Know: A Centennial History of Murray State University, 1922-2022. 192 pp. 2022:10 (U. Pr. Kentucky, US) <679-1456>
ISBN 978-0-8131-9629-9 hard ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

"The work of this institution has only begun I want to see this faculty continue to develop in not only teaching ability, but heart power-the ability to lead and inspire I want to see the fullest opportunities furnished to students I want to see young men and women who will become effective leaders I want to see all of these things and more" face=Calibri>- Dr. John W. Carr, First President of Murray State University, April 1, 1926When Murray State University was founded shortly after World War I, it was a modest, one-building teachers' college with a mandate to prepare better-trained educators for schools in the Jackson Purchase area of Western Kentucky. Now Murray State has grown to become a major university with nearly (or approximately) 10,000 students from all over the world. Over the past century, this institution has indelibly shaped the lives of generations of talented young people who went on to enjoy remarkable careers at NASA, the Kentucky Supreme Court, in Hollywood, the NBA, and elsewhere.In The Finest Place We Know, authors Robert L Jackson, Sarah Marie Owens, and Sean J. McLaughlin celebrate the 100-year story of Murray State University by looking back on the people, places, and events which have shaped the institution's history. This comprehensive, pictorial history features hundreds of images from the Progue Special Collections Library and is accompanied by stories that explore everything from the school's first student-produced weekly newspaper The College News that began publication on June 24, 1927, the hiring of Ernest T. Brooks, its first Black professor, in 1970, and the appointment of Dr. Kala Stroup, the first woman president of any Kentucky university. This work face=Calibri>- equal parts history and celebration - presents an in depth account of one of Kentucky's prosperous public universities.

Kenny, David J. / McKellar, Shelley, Transforming Dentistry: The Rise and Near Demise of Dentistry at Western University. 352 pp. 2022:11 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <679-1457>
ISBN 978-1-4875-2989-5 hard ¥10,769.- (税込) US$ 49.95

Hale, Jon N., A New Kind of Youth: Historically Black High Schools and Southern Student Activism, 1920-1975. 352 pp. 2022:12 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <679-1313>
ISBN 978-1-4696-7138-3 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4696-7139-0 paper ¥6,025.- (税込) US$ 27.95 *

The story of activist youth in America is usually framed around the Vietnam War, the counterculture, and college campuses, focusing primarily on college students in the 1960s and 1970s. But a remarkably effective tradition of Black high school student activism in the civil rights era has gone understudied. In 1951, students at R. R. Moton High School in rural Virginia led a student walkout and contacted the law firm of Hill, Martin, and Robinson in Richmond, Virginia, to file one of the five pivotal court cases that comprised the Brown v. Board decision. In 1960, twenty-four Burke High School students in Charleston, South Carolina, organized the first direct action, nonviolent protest in the city at the downtown S. H. Kress department store. Months later in the small town of McComb, Mississippi, an entire high school walked out in protest of the conviction of a student who sat-in on a local Woolworth lunch counter in 1961, guiding the agenda for the historic Freedom Summer campaign during the summer of 1964. A New Kind of Youth brings high school activism into greater focus, illustrating how Black youth supported liberatory social and political movements and inspired their elders across the South.

Willoughby, Christopher, Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools. 288 pp. 2022:11 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <679-1354>
ISBN 978-1-4696-7184-0 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4696-7212-0 paper ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Medical science in antebellum America was organized around a paradox: it presumed African Americans to be less than human yet still human enough to be viable as experimental subjects, as cadavers, and for use in the training of medical students. By taking a hard look at the racial ideas of both northern and southern medical schools, Christopher D. E. Willoughby reveals that racist ideas were not external to the medical profession but fundamental to medical knowledge.In this history of racial thinking and slavery in American medical schools, the founders and early faculty of these schools emerge as singularly influential proponents of white supremacist racial science. They pushed an understanding of race influenced by the theory of polygenesis-that each race was created separately and as different species-which they supported by training students to collect and measure human skulls from around the world. Medical students came to see themselves as masters of Black people's bodies through stealing Black people's corpses, experimenting on enslaved people, and practicing distinctive therapeutics on Black patients. In documenting these practices Masters of Health charts the rise of racist theories in U.S. medical schools, throwing new light on the extensive legacies of slavery in modern medicine.