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AMERICAN HISTORY

Lanza’s Mob She-Devil in
The Mafia and the City of Angels
San Francisco Gender, Violence, and

CHRISTINA ANN-MARIE DIEDOARDO the Hattie Woolsteen
“ Written in a wry, Murder Case in Victorian
Era Los Angeles
witty, highly absorbing
voice, the book is rock- CARA ANZILOTTI
solid in terms of its Beyond its explorations
” of the nineteenth-century
scholarship. “
June 2016, 204pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 —Cosa Nostra News, June 2016, 180pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 justice system, Anzilotti’s
Print: 978-1-4408-4216-0 October 25, 2016 Print: 978-1-4408-4097-5 book is also a rollicking
$37.00, £29.00, €34.00 $37.00, £29.00, €34.00 tale, sure to please a wide
eBook: 978-1-4408-4217-7 Presenting sociological as well as eBook: 978-1-4408-4098-2 range of readers.
historical perspectives, this book ”
supplies readers with a fascinating, unprecedented look at the —Katherine A.S. Sibley,
most successful organized-crime family they’ve probably never Professor of History, Saint
heard of. Joseph’s University, April 12, 2016
This compelling study of the American public’s response to the
CHRISTINA ANN-MARIE DIEDOARDO, Esq., is a criminal fate of accused murderer Hattie Woolsteen uses this legal case
defense lawyer in San Francisco, CA. to examine the complexities of gender history and societal fears
about the changing roles of women during the Victorian era.

Zebulon Pike
CARA ANZILOTTI, PhD, is associate professor of history at
Thomas Jefferson’s Loyola Marymount University.
Agent for Empire

GEORGE R. MATTHEWS Solomon
“ This groundbreaking Northup’s Kindred
study argues convincingly
that Pike had a map. This The Kidnapping of
proves he knew where Free Citizens before
he was and reveals what the Civil War
he was up to—spying
February 2016, 184pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 DAVID FISKE
Print: 978-1-4408-4431-7 for President Thomas
”
$37.00, £29.00, €34.00 Jefferson. “ David Fiske reminds
eBook: 978-1-4408-4432-4 readers of similar cases
—Rick Hendricks, PhD, New
Mexico State Historian, and of discrimination
November 30, 2015 January 2016, 170pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 against blacks in New
Print: 978-1-4408-3664-0 York, where they were
Through careful examination of primary documents, this $37.00, £29.00, €34.00 excluded from jury and
book reveals that the true purpose of Zebulon Pike’s western eBook: 978-1-4408-3665-7 militia duty and were
expedition in 1806–1807 was not innocent exploration of the required to own property
West but an espionage mission in preparation for an American in order to vote.
invasion of New Mexico. ”
—New York Times, March 8, 2016
Kidnapping was a lucrative crime in antebellum America, and
GEORGE R. MATTHEWS is a historian who has received the
Charles Redd Center for Western Studies Research Grant and many American citizens—especially free blacks—were abducted
twice been awarded the Historical Society of New Mexico and for profit. This book reveals the untold stories of the captured.
Office of the State Historian Research Fellowship.
DAVID FISKE, MLS, is a librarian and researcher with extensive
experience in African American history. His published works
include Solomon Northup: His Life Before and After.

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