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

Mathews, Mary Beth Swetnam, Contentious Unions: Black Baptist Schools and White Baptist Money in the Jim Crow South. (America's Baptists) 272 pp. 2024:10 (U. Tennessee Pr., US) <727-142>
ISBN 978-1-62190-925-5 hard ¥13,464.- (税込) US$ 60.00

In Contentious Unions: Black Baptist Schools and White Baptist Money in the Jim Crow South, Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews interweaves the stories of the founding and development of Richmond Theological Seminary (Virginia), Central City College (Macon, Georgia), and American Baptist Theological Seminary (Nashville, Tennessee)-colleges that saw challenges, complexities, and hard-won accomplishments in the Post-Reconstruction era. Her study begins just after the Civil War, when one of these institutions provided educational opportunities for newly freed slaves, and follows the fortunes of the schools through the 1960s. Mathews reveals the financial, curricular, and identity struggles of schools that came into being and survived under difficult circumstances. The institutions relied on funding from White Baptists, but also had to fight against control and exploitation from those who helped them financially. Though each school evolved with a different identity and educational mission, Mathews concludes that "they could be simultaneously symbols of racial independence as well as victims of white supremacy." As "oppositional spaces," these schools gave their communities access to the ground floor of the civil rights movement, and the author highlights their connections to some of the more famous activists such as John R. Lewis, Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, and Gordon P. Hancock. Ultimately, Mathews's book is a fascinating and complex account that uses the history of these three institutions to illuminate the origins of the long struggle for civil rights.

Cohen, Robert, Confronting Jim Crow: Race, Memory, and the University of Georgia in the Twentieth Century. 376 pp. 2024:8 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <727-1134>
ISBN 978-1-4696-8140-5 paper ¥7,841.- (税込) US$ 34.95

Since the onset of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd, America has grappled with its racial history, leading to the removal of statues and other markers commemorating pro-slavery sympathizers and segregationists from public spaces. Some of these white supremacist statues had stood on or near college and university campuses since the Jim Crow era, symbolizing the reluctance of American higher education to confront its racist past. In Confronting Jim Crow, Robert Cohen explores the University of Georgia's long history of racism and the struggle to overcome it, shedding light on white Georgia's historical amnesia concerning the university's role in sustaining the Jim Crow system. By extending the historical analysis beyond the desegregation crisis of 1961, Cohen unveils UGA's deep-rooted anti-Black stance preceding formal desegregation efforts. Through the lens of Black and white student, faculty, and administration perspectives, this book exposes the enduring impact of Jim Crow and its lingering effects on campus integration.

Core, Jennifer / Hasson, Janet S., Tennessee Samplers: Female Education and Domestic Arts, 1800-1900. 312 pp. 2025:2 (U. Tennessee Pr., US) <727-1185>
ISBN 978-1-62190-922-4 hard ¥10,098.- (税込) US$ 45.00

Jennifer Core and Janet Hasson's study of samplers-embroideries that are "first attempts at a new technique, color combination, or unusual material"-provides vivid descriptions of this nineteenth-century Tennessee art form in its many varieties. The authors not only catalogue and describe samplers from each of Tennessee's major regions-West, Middle, and East-but also incorporate research on the sampler makers and their families. This research provides fascinating insight into the stitchers, their teachers, and their academies. Including a chapter on female education on the Tennessee frontier and another on embroideries and needlework focused on mourning, the volume draws on oral histories of the embroiderers' descendants, family Bibles, diaries, scrapbooks, cemetery records, and other primary sources. Photos of the samplers are accompanied by detailed descriptions of styles, thread count, materials used, frames, and motifs. Ultimately, the study provides a snapshot of the lives of girls and young women in nineteenth-century Tennessee, including the role of this ornamental art in their education. Providing important historical context on Tennessee education, economy, and domestic life, Core and Hasson describe how embroidery came to be a crucial primary source in revealing the lives of girls and young women during a time when little was recorded about them. This book is an authoritative record of the material culture produced in the daily routine of school rooms. It is for all who see beauty in sometimes-overlooked handiwork and understand the importance of curating, preserving, and analyzing it.

Rose-Mockry, Katherine, Liberating Lawrence: Gay Activism in the 1970s at the University of Kansas. 360 pp. 2024:11 (U. Pr. Kansas, US) <727-1218>
ISBN 978-0-7006-3735-5 hard ¥8,963.- (税込) US$ 39.95

The early struggle for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and 1970s has typically been told from the perspective of the coasts-in places like New York, San Francisco, and Miami. But the Midwest town of Lawrence, Kansas, home of the University of Kansas (KU) and a thriving location for activist organizations in the 1960s, had an important role to play in the national story of LGBTQ activism in the United States.Liberating Lawrence tells the first-hand story of the Lawrence Gay Liberation Front (LGLF), a KU student organization that began in 1970. Having conducted sixty-seven interviews with people who were involved at the time, author Katherine Rose-Mockry focuses on the group's early formative years between the founding and 1979, during which time the members of LGLF had to fight for their right to exist on campus as an official student group. Inspired by a class project that led him to interview local members of the LGBTQ community, David Stout initiated the formation of the LGLF in the summer of 1970 to provide a safe space for gay students to meet each other and to establish a base of operations for student activism on campus. The group focused on educating the campus about the experience of being gay. They formed a speakers' bureau in their opening months and gave frequent presentations at KU and nearby campuses. In addition to raising awareness and providing counseling services, the group was also self-consciously political from the start and advocated for equal protections, employment rights, and the elimination of laws criminalizing same-sex sexual activity.The university administration, however, did not welcome the formation of the LGLF. Three times the chancellor rejected their request for recognition. This led the group to file a lawsuit against the university in 1971, and the famous cause lawyer William Kunstler, who had previously defended the Chicago Seven in 1969, agreed to represent them-a development that received national media attention. While the LGLF lost the legal battle, they ultimately won the war to change the campus culture.Katherine Rose-Mockry has written the definitive history of gay and lesbian activism at the public universities of Kansas. Liberating Lawrence is a major contribution to our understanding of the fight for gay pride and LGBTQ civil rights, both locally and nationally.

Grelak, Uwe / Pasternack, Peer, Im Auftrag: Sonderhochschulen und Ressortforschung in der DDR. 352 S. 2024:7 (Vandenhoeck, GW) <727-1239>
ISBN 978-3-525-31154-7 hard ¥17,017.- (税込) EUR 70.00

Waehrend und nach dem Ende der DDR standen die Akademie der Wissenschaften und die oeffentlichen Hochschulen im Mittelpunkt der Aufmerksamkeit, etwas abgestuft auch die Industrieforschung. Das DDR-Wissenschaftssystem setzte sich jedoch nicht nur aus diesen Segmenten zusammen. Zusaetzlich gab es Sonderhochschulen, die von Ministerien, Parteien, Massenorganisationen und Sicherheitsorganen unterhalten wurden, und ebenso zahlreiche Institute, die direkt im Auftrag der Ministerien forschten oder des SED-Zentralkomitees forschten. 1989 waren dies insgesamt 116 Einrichtungen mit 11.300 Lehrenden und Forschenden. Dieses Buch dokumentiert und beschreibt diese zumeist im verborgenen wirkenden Einrichtungen erstmals vollstaendig.

Keim, Michaela, Die Universitaet als Arena des Politischen: Sozialer Raum und akademische Kultur an der Universitaet zu Koeln von 1945 bis in die langen 1960er Jahre. (Koelner Historische Abhandlungen 59) 464 S. 2024:9 (Boehlau, GW) <727-1240>
ISBN 978-3-412-53107-2 hard ¥15,801.- (税込) EUR 65.00

Seit ihrer Wiedereroeffnung nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg gerierten sich die Universitaeten als traditionell unpolitische Institutionen. Diese Grundausrichtung sei durch den Nationalsozialismus unterbrochen worden. Mit dem Uebergang zu einer demokratischen Ordnung gelte es, diese Tradition wieder aufzunehmen, nicht zuletzt um die Studierenden als zukuenftige gesellschaftliche Elite zu muendigen Staatsbuergern zu bilden ? so die Forderung universitaerer Akteure. Vor diesem Hintergrund untersucht Michaela Keim die Universitaet zu Koeln als sozialen Raum und als Raum politischer Diskurse von ihrer Wiedereroeffnung 1945 bis in die langen 1960er Jahre. In der Analyse identifiziert sie die lokalen Spezifika und Voraussetzungen in Koeln, setzt diese aber immer wieder in Beziehung zu den allgemeinen Entwicklungen der Hochschullandschaft in der Bundesrepublik.

Meixner, Schulamit, Die Rueckkehr: Wiederaufbau juedischer Bildung und Erziehung in Wien seit 1945. (Poetik, Exegese und Narrative / Poetics, Exegesis and Narratives 20.3) 348 S. 2024:5 (V & R unipress, GW) <727-1242>
ISBN 978-3-8471-1703-2 hard ¥14,586.- (税込) EUR 60.00

Die systematische Ausloeschung juedischen Lebens in Wien durch die Nationalsozialisten zielte von Beginn an auch auf das vielfaeltige juedische Schul- und Bildungswesen. Es dauerte Jahrzehnte, bis sich wieder ein bluehendes Schulsystem etablieren konnte. Kann man von einer Wiederbelebung, von Kontinuitaet nach schweren Frakturen sprechen? War es ein kompletter Kaltstart, gefolgt von muehevollem Neuaufbau? Wie weit wurde die Gruendung juedischer Schulen von oeffentlicher Hand unterstuetzt? Um diese Fragen zu beantworten, hat Schulamit Meixner etliche oeffentliche und private Archive und viele verstreute Quellen eingesehen und ausgewertet sowie zahlreiche Interviews gefuehrt. Ihr Befund ist die erste umfassende Darstellung des juedischen Bildungswesens in Wien nach der Schoa.