Syracuse University Press: 176 books
The Soul of Central New York
Syracuse Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
A group of strangers risk death along the New York State Thruway to save a soldier from a burning truck. The true story, as told by football legend Jim Brown, of how the number 44 rose to prominence at Syracuse University. The beautiful yet tragic connection between Vice President Joseph Biden and...
Leveling the Playing Field
The Story of the Syracuse Eight
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Leveling the Playing Field tells the story of the African American members of the 1969–70 Syracuse University football team who petitioned for racial equality on their team. The petition had four demands: access to the same academic tutoring made available to their white teammates; better medical...
The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman
A Narrative of Real Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
The Rev. Jermain Wesley Loguen was a pioneering figure in early nineteenth-century abolitionism and African American literature. A highly respected leader in the AME Zion Church, Rev. Loguen was popularly known as the "Underground Railroad King" in Syracuse, where he helped over 1,500 fugitives...
A Taste of Upstate New York
The People and the Stories Behind 40 Food Favorites
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Upstate New York is the birthplace of many of America's favorite food treats. The chicken wing was born in a bar in Buffalo, the potato chip was born in the kitchen of a ritzy hotel in Saratoga Springs, the salt potato got its start along the marshy shores of a Syracuse Lake and Thousand Island Dressing...
Steel's
A Forgotten Stock Market Scandal from the 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
In a casual quest to find his long-lost great uncle Clayton Pickard, Dyer stumbled upon a little-known story of unbounded success and devastating failure in the history of Steel’s Stores. In 1919 L.R. Steel founded a five-and-dime store in Buffalo which would eventually grow to a chain of 225 stores...
Invisible Seasons
Title IX and the Fight for Equity in College Sports
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
In 1979, a group of women athletes at Michigan State University, their civil rights attorney, the institution’s Title IX coordinator, and a close circle of college students used the law to confront a powerful institution—their own university. By the mid-1970s, opposition from the NCAA had made...
The Arkansas Delta Oral History Project
Culture, Place, and Authenticity
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
In rural America, perhaps more than other areas, high school students have the ability to contribute to the revitalization and sustainability of their home communities by engaging in oral history projects designed to highlight the values that are revered and worth saving in their region. The Arkansas...
Wins and Losses
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
In Makuck’s fourth collection of short stories he once again explores the fertile territory of small, rural American towns. With tenderness and clarity, he excavates the mundane surface of everyday lives to reveal compassionate characters who are unexpectedly vulnerable. The stories in Wins and...
by Liza Wieland
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
New Mexico, 1985. Brigid Long Night, a young half-Navajo painter, goes to
work as an assistant for the elderly Georgia O’Keeffe. Haunted by the decision
to give up her newborn daughter for adoption, Brigid struggles with the direction
and inertia of her life. With O’Keeffe’s encouragement, Brigid...
The Implacable Urge to Defame
Cartoon Jews in the American Press, 1877-1935
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
From the 1870s to the 1930s, American cartoonists devoted much of their ink to outlandish caricatures of immigrants and minority groups, making explicit the derogatory stereotypes that circulated at the time. Members of ethnic groups were depicted as fools, connivers, thieves, and individuals hardly...
The 1929 Bunion Derby
Johnny Salo and the Great Footrace across America
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
On March 31, 1929, seventy-seven men began an epic 3,554-mile footrace
across America that pushed their bodies to the breaking point. Nicknamed
the "Bunion Derby" by the press, this was the second and last of
two trans-America footraces held in the late 1920s. The men averaged
forty-six gut-busting...
Finding the Trapdoor
Essays, Portraits, Travels
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
For some 30 years, Adam Hochschild’s voice has been one of the most distinctive in American journalism. With grace and wit, he has brought to a startling variety of subjects a combination of adventurous reporting and personal honesty. Hochschild’s readers can count on an unobtrusive erudition,...
In the Shadow of Kinzua
The Seneca Nation of Indians since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
2014 Award of Merit winner from the American Association for State and Local History
The Kinzua Dam has cast a long shadow on Seneca life since World War II. The project, formally dedicated in 1966, broke the Treaty of Canandaigua of 1794, flooded approximately 10,000 acres of Seneca lands in New...
An Oneida Indian in Foreign Waters
The Life of Chief Chapman Scanandoah, 1870-1953
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Chief Chapman Scanandoah (1870–1953) was a decorated Navy veteran who served in the Spanish-American War, a skilled mechanic, and a prize-winning agronomist who helped develop the Iroquois Village at the New York State Fair. He was also a historian, linguist, philosopher, and early leader of the...