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"Ask someone their thoughts about ""democracy"" and you'll get many different responses. Some may presume it a thing once established yet now under threat. Others may believe that democracy has always been compromised by the empowered few. In the contemporary United States, marked by constituencies across the political spectrum believing that their voices have gone unheard, ""democracy"" gets wielded in so many divergent directions as to be rendered nearly incoherent. Democracies in America reminds us that this reality is nothing new. Focusing on the various meanings of ""democracy"" that circulated in the nineteenth century, the book collects twenty-five essays, each taking up a keyword in the language we use to talk about democracy. The essays consider the relationship between ""America"" and ""democracy"" from multiple disciplinary angles and from different moments in a major historical period-amidst the vitality of the revolutionary epoch, in the contentious lead-up to the Civil War, and through the triumphs and failures of Reconstruction and the early reforms of the Progressive Era-while making both forward and backward glances in time. This volume cultivates, for students and teachers in classrooms, as well as citizens in libraries and caf�s, a language to deliberate about the possibilities and problems of democracy in America."

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Gregory Laski is the author of Untimely Democracy, which won the American Literature Association's 2019 Pauline E. Hopkins Society Scholarship Award. He is currently a civilian associate professor of English at the United States Air Force Academy. He holds a PhD in English from Northwestern University. Gregory Laski is the author of Untimely Democracy, which won the American Literature Association's 2019 Pauline E. Hopkins Society Scholarship Award. He is currently a civilian associate professor of English at the United States Air Force Academy. He holds a PhD in English from Northwestern University. Gregory Laski is the author of Untimely Democracy, which won the American Literature Association's 2019 Pauline E. Hopkins Society Scholarship Award. He is currently a civilian associate professor of English at the United States Air Force Academy. He holds a PhD in English from Northwestern University. D. Berton Emerson is Associate Professor of English and hirector of the honors program at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. His writing has appeared in American Literature, ESQ, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. D. Berton Emerson is Associate Professor of English and hirector of the honors program at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. His writing has appeared in American Literature, ESQ, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. D. Berton Emerson is Associate Professor of English and hirector of the honors program at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. His writing has appeared in American Literature, ESQ, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Kyla Garcia is a film, stage, and television actress based in Los Angeles, California. She has earned an Audie Award nomination and seven AudioFile Earphones Awards for her work as an audiobook narrator. Her favorite storytelling moments include being a company member of Native Voices at the Autry, starring in the World Premiere of Sovereignty at Arena Stage, and creating the critically acclaimed one-woman show The Mermaid Who Learned How to Fly. Kyla's most recent project is the original feminist spoken-word digital series Herstory 101 featured in BUST Magazine. Amir Abdullah (he/him/his) is an actor, playwright, and audiobook narrator residing in Los Angeles. He has been seen on stage at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, The Geffen Playhouse, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, California Shakespeare Theatre, A Noise Within Theatre, and other theaters around the US. On screen, Amir most recently appeared on Chicago Med and on the last season of Empire and has been seen on other network shows and films. As a narrator, he is a four-time Golden Earphone Award winner and an ALSC Notable Children's Recording recipient. Most known for narrating the YA series Tristan Strong, he has lent his voice to dozens of other prolific authors' works such as Ibram X. Kendi, Kwame Mbalia, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Dubois, Eric Jerome Dickey, and more. You can hear him as the voice of Yasir in the videogame Abo Kashem and in the HP Lovecraft Society Radio Plays and as a regular on the Open Door Playhouse. He can be seen and heard in commercials for Ford, Adidas, Kaiser Permanente, and Facebook, as well as many others. As an actor Amir won Best Actor at the Movieville International Film Festival for his work in the film The Untimely Concurrence. Amir's playwriting debut, Pray to Ball, had its world premiere at Skylight Theatre Company in Los Angeles and won the Ovation Award for Best Set. He graduated with an MFA in acting from Pennsylvania State University and a BFA in acting from the University of Miami. Mia Ellis is a member of the Resident Acting Company at Trinity Repertory Company. Based in Providence and New York, she is also a teaching artist and writer. Some of her film and television credits include Elementary, Person of Interest, What Would You Do?, and Louder Than Words. Mia is a graduate of the Brown/Trinity Rep MFA Acting Program. VyVy Nguyen is a Vietnamese American actress based in Los Angeles. She graduated from USC's School of Dramatic Arts and specializes in narrating books by authors of the Vietnamese diaspora. After earning a degree in musical theater and spending several years hustling on the business side of the film industry, Lisa Larsen has found her way back to her first love: performing. Lisa narrates from her home studio in the foothills of Los Angeles. When she's not embodying the characters of strong heroines, feisty teenagers, cranky old men, or alluring vampires, she's devoting time to her daughters, mucking up her kitchen baking healthy treats, riding her bike, or enjoying a DIY project with her husband. James Babson has accumulated nearly twenty years of professional experience since graduating from the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama with a BFA in acting. In recent years, James has made appearances in dozens of acclaimed television shows, including Brooklyn Nine Nine, Silicon Valley, I Think You Should Leave, Timeless, Chance, For the People, Room 104, Criminal Minds, 9-11, and NCIS. Notable film roles include Dan Zuckerberg in The Words starring Bradley Cooper and Zoe Saldana, Fat Jim in Last Knights, starring Clive Owen and Morgan Freeman, Rudolf Hess in the critically acclaimed CBS miniseries Hitler: The Rise of Evil, opposite Robert Carlyle, and Agent Moss in Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy. In voice-over, Mr. Babson developed a devoted fan base for voicing the iconic character Sun Jiang for the popular Dynasty Warriors video game franchise. He also added his talents to the Bio Shock universe voicing Louie in Bio Shock 2. For Netflix, James has provided the English language dubbing for over thirty shows, including the role of Angel in the wildly popular global sensation Money Heist. James has also recorded hundreds of audiobooks under his own name as well as various aliases. Most recently, James narrated Danielle Steel's New York Times bestseller Palazzo as well of Bruce Borgo's acclaimed The Bitter Past. James currently works and resides in Los Angeles.

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