This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women’s rights in the first decades of t...

This critical interpretation of the origins of modern fiction follows the transformation of the p...

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms...

The Berlin Wall is arguably the most prominent symbol of the Cold War era. Its construction in 19...

In this ethnography of Navajo (Diné) popular music culture, Kristina M. Jacobsen examines questio...

The Colorado River region looms large in the history of the American West, vitally important in t...

Viola Franziska Müller examines runaways who camouflaged themselves among the free Black populati...

For fifteen years, food writer Belinda Ellis traveled around the country for the White Lily® flou...

Magic City is the story of one of American music's essential unsung places: Birmingham, Alabama, ...

Spanning the 1720s through the end of the Civil War, this book explores how free and enslaved Bla...

Latin America has traditionally imposed the strictest limits on legal abortion in the democratic ...

'In 1867, Frances Anne Rollin, a Black writer and teacher from South Carolina, traveled to Boston...

Women’s history traveled a long and fascinating path before it became a respected and recognized ...

'Shifting the focus of AIDS history away from the coasts to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St...

Political rhetoric often portrays Mexico as an inherently violent nation. Available now for the f...

Los Angeles in the late nineteenth century was bustling with the rise of industrialization, but t...

'Los Angeles in the late nineteenth century was bustling with the rise of industrialization, but ...

The promise of Reconstruction sparked a transformative era in American history as free and newly ...

During the American Civil War, clothing became central to the ways people waged war and experienc...

There is a complicated history of racism and psychiatric healthcare in the Deep South states of G...

This sweeping history tells a story of fits and starts of Mexican Americans' interactions with la...

Women’s history traveled a long and fascinating path before it became a respected and recognized ...

Prior to the American Revolution, the urban centers of colonial North America had little direct e...

In this compelling narrative of discovery set in Japan’s remote Dewa Sanzan mountain range, Shayn...

'In the segregated American South, policing was war. Ungovernable police discretion came to the b...

Ethical and moral concerns about food and diet commonly feature in individuals' religious identit...

Delving into the intersection of television entertainment and American politics during the 1970s,...

In this compelling narrative of discovery set in Japan's remote Dewa Sanzan mountain range, Shayn...

This sweeping history tells a story of fits and starts of Mexican Americans' interactions with la...

Mid-twentieth-century student activism is a pivotal chapter in American history. While college ac...

In Palestine, a walk across the landscape is a journey of return that defies time, layered with s...

Chronicling the rise and fall of North Carolina’s fusion movement, this book illuminates an intri...

Historians largely understand Native American education through the Indian boarding schools and r...

The promise of Reconstruction sparked a transformative era in American history as free and newly ...

During the American Civil War, clothing became central to the ways people waged war and experienc...

There is a complicated history of racism and psychiatric healthcare in the Deep South states of G...

In 822, Black Charlestonians attempted to overthrow slavery. They were exposed before they could ...

The surprise Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979 shocked the international community. The two com...

While most historians of the Vietnam War focus on the origins of U.S. involvement and the America...

The first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century Ku Klux Klan since the 1970s, Ku-Kl...

Kottick presents technical information in an accessible, but entertaining, way: the forms and sty...

The devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He's not just the ...

Centering Pakistan in a story of transnational Islam stretching from South Asia to the Middle Eas...

Over the course of his long career, legendary bluesman William “Big Bill” Broonzy (1893–1958) hel...

The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been und...

Pilgrimage is one of the most significant ritual duties for Muslims, entailing the visitation and...

Over the last twenty years, type 2 diabetes skyrocketed to the forefront of global public health ...

Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as Americans increasingly came into cont...