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Over the last two centuries and indeed up to the present day, Eastern Europe’s lands and peoples have conjured up a complex mixture of fascination, anxiety, promise, and peril for Germans looking eastwards. Liulevicius reveals that this crucial international relationship has in fact been integral to how Germans have defined themselves and their own national identity.

Recognizing Vejas Liulevicius, for the publication of his most recent book The German Myth of the East, 1800 to the Present.

Author: Lynn Sacco
This history of father-daughter incest in the United States explains how cultural mores and political needs distorted attitudes toward and medical knowledge of patriarchal sexual abuse at a time when the nation was committed to the familial power of white fathers and the idealized white family.

Recognizing Lynn Sacco for the publication of her latest book, Unspeakable: Father-Daughter Incest in American History.

Author: Robert J. Norrell
Since the 1960s, Martin Luther King, Jr., has personified black leadership with his use of direct action protests against white authority. A century ago, in the era of Jim Crow, Booker T. Washington pursued a different strategy to lift his people. In this compelling biography, Norrell reveals how conditions in the segregated South led Washington to call for a less contentious path to freedom and equality.