Averill Earls, Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same-Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922-1972 (Temple University Press, 2025)
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Averill Earls, Sarah Handley-Cousins, Marissa Rhodes, and Elizabeth Garner Masarik, Spiritualism’s Place: Reformers, Seekers, and Seances in Lily Dale (Cornell University Press/Three Hills, 2024)
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Elizabeth Garner Masarik, The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State, (University of Georgia Press, 2024).
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Sarah Handley-Cousins, Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North (University of Georgia Press, 2019)
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