Herbert examines how the informal reclamation of abandoned property has been shaping Detroit for decades...

Boyarin explores the yeshiva's relationship with the neighborhood, the city, and Jewish and American culture more broadly, and brings vividly to life its routines, rituals, and rhythms...

Rafalow provides an ethnographic study of students and teachers at three Los Angeles schools utilizing instructional technology...

The FBI has made possible a reassembling of the history of Malcolm X that goes beyond any previous research. From the opening of his file in March of 1953 to his assassination in 1965, the story of Malcolm X’s political life is a gripping one....

When did Black Americans move from stalwart party of Lincoln Republicans to dedicated New Deal Democrats?

Adjmi’s memoir also traces his evolving relationship with his family and his community, from whom he desires to escape even as he finds himself drawn continually back to them...

Randles shares the stories of more than 60 marginalized men as they sought to become more engaged parents through a government-supported “responsible” fatherhood program...

Young looks at two distinct genres of communication—irony and outrage—and their respective appeals to liberals and conservatives...

Downs rewrites the history of gay life in the 1970s, arguing that the decade was about much more than sex and marching in the streets...

Araton's book reads like a mix between Tuesdays with Morrie and a sequel to his book When the Garden was Eden (which chronicled the New York Knicks’ early-70s title teams). It’s a book about friendship, aging and of course, basketball....

Ruby follows the legal debates and public discussions that surrounded the proposed shari‘ah tribunals in Canada from 2003 to 2006...

Vogan traces the cultural impact of ABC Sports rise in the 1950s until its demise in the 1990s....

Gage shows how sustained communication between reservations enabled a diversity of peoples to share knowledge of common experiences under U.S. settler colonialism, culminating with the rise and rapid spread of the Ghost Dance...

Lamont offers an in-depth analysis of how gender shapes dating practices...

Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that “all men are created equal”?

Behind the braided wigs, buckskins, and excess bronzer that typified the mid-century "filmic Indian" lies a far richer, deeper history of Indigenous labor, survival, and agency...

In this rhetorical history, Johnson contextualizes and analyzes some of Turner’s key speeches and writings delivered between 1896 and 1915 amid the rise of Jim Crow segregation and the first Great Migration...

Rather than smashing societal structures willy-nilly and wielding presidential power like a bludgeon, Schaff’s Lincoln was far more deferential to Congress than many of us realized...

The Yellow Kid was a ubiquitous figure at the end of the nineteenth century...

Benjamin Armstrong sets out to take irregular naval warfare out of the shadow of the blue-water battles that dominate naval history...

Few have ever enjoyed the degree of foreign-policy influence and versatility that Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., the grand-son of Woodrow Wilson’s senatorial antagonist, did...,

Vanessa Díaz examines the raced and gendered hierarchies and inequalities that are imbricated within the work of producing celebrity in Los Angeles...

Slater takes stock of the conflict from its origins to the present day and argues that US policies in the region are largely a product of mythologies that are often flatly wrong...

Ambar offers the first in-depth analysis of this important speech, illuminating its context and consequences.

For many of its participants, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) offered them an opportunity to change their lives, yet few were as transformed as that of Isabel “Lefty” Alvarez...