Contagions of Empire: Scientific Racism, Sexuality, and Black Military Workers Abroad, 1898-1948 Rachel Kauder Nalebuff an elderly woman looks back

an elderly woman looks back on her years in the thrall of fascism and Nazism

The Caldecott medal-winning d'Aulaires once again captivate their young audience with this beautifully illustrated introduction to Norse legends

'I work in an office

But as the one-year anniversary of her husband's death approaches

Contagions of Empire: Scientific Racism, Sexuality, and Black Military Workers Abroad, 1898-1948 Rachel Kauder Nalebuff an elderly woman looks backFrom 1898 onward, the expansion of American militarism and empire abroad increasingly relied on black labor, even as policy remained inflected both by scientific racism and by fears of contagion. Black men and women were mobilized for service in the Spanish Cuban American War under the War Department's belief that southern blacks carried an immunity against tropical diseases. Later, in World Wars I and II, black troops were stigmatized as members of a