Books written by Martha Hodes

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  Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History

  Boyle, Desegregated Heart, 64–65, 72, 73, 84, 126–27. Swanson later moved to Washington, D.C., where he worked in the Chief Counsel's Office of the Internal Revenue Service. He and Boyle corresponded on a few occasions, but were never ...

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  Mourning Lincoln

  Public responses to the assassination have been well chronicled, but this book is the first to delve into the personal and intimate responses of everyday people—northerners and southerners, soldiers and civilians, black people and white, ...

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  The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century

  This story of misfortune and defiance takes up grand themes of American history—opportunity and racism, war and freedom—and illuminates the lives of ordinary people in the past.

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  White Women, Black Men

  This book is the first to explore the history of a powerful category of illicit sex in America’s past: liaisons between Southern white women and black men.

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  My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering

  In this moving and thought-provoking memoir, a historian offers a personal look at the fallibilities of memory and the lingering impact of trauma as she goes back fifty years to tell the story of being a passenger on an airliner hijacked in ...

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  Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History

  Traversing the whole of American history, from liaisons among Indians, Europeans, and Africans to twentieth-century social scientists' fascination with sex between Asian Americans and whits, the essays cover a range of regions, and of ...