Wayland-Smith follows the career of adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub who in the mid-twentieth century created the advertising campaigns selling consumer products to the average American housewife. More than products,,,

On November 3, 1969 Richard M. Nixon addressed the nation in what would come to be known as “The Silent Majority Speech”...

The authors offer an engaging and interdisciplinary exploration of contemporary black popular culture and how to think about this broad and diverse landscape, especially in relation to power, capitalism, gender identity, and presidential politics...

Maria shares her intimate experience growing up Mexican American on the South Side of Chicago...

Heather Lende was one of the thousands of women inspired to take a more active role in politics during the past few years...

In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communities...

Nurhussein explores late nineteenth and twentieth century African American cultural engagement with and literary depictions of imperial Ethiopia...

As the 2020 presidential campaign begins to take shape, there is widespread distrust of the fairness and accuracy of American elections....

What is "Left" foreign policy? Michael Walzer explains...

Few mainstream filmmakers have as pronounced a disregard for the supposed rules of filmmaking as Martin Scorsese...

What if outer space is not outside the human environment but, rather, defines it?

America is in a Cold Civil War, between people who see each other as threats to the country — but themselves as patriots. How can that be? They are patriots of two nations...

The essays in this volume explore commemorative practices as they developed in the nineteenth century...

Why are Americans, and American politicians more specifically, obsessed with sex? Why, in the words of Janet Jakobsen, are gender and sexuality such riveting public policy concerns the United States?

Drawing from the experiences of diasporic South Asian Muslim community in America, namely Bangladeshis, Pakistanis, and Indians, Shams introduces an innovative conceptual notion of “elsewhere” which informs her new multicentered approach to the study of globalized immigrant identities...

Finley examines the history of American slavery and capitalism by foregrounding women’s labor in the Antebellum slave trade...

Zychowicz tells the unique story of a generation of artists, feminists, and queer activists who emerged in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union...

Howe offers a novel and provocative perspective on how we came to be living in an age of political immaturity and social turmoil...

Black Americans are by far the most unified racial group in American electoral politics, with 80 to 90 percent identifying as Democrats—a surprising figure given that nearly a third now also identify as ideologically conservative, up from less than 10 percent in the 1970s.

What happened to the Democratic Party after 2016?

Who truly controls immigration law in the United States?

Greedy elites are purposefully stoking racial division and laughing all the way to the bank.

Rhodri Jeffreys Jones tells the dramatic story of the Nazi spy ring in America. In the mid-1930s just as the United States was embarking on a policy of neutrality,..

In Gilded Age America, people and animals lived cheek-by-jowl in environments that were dirty and dangerous to man and animal alike...

Farzaneh discusses the history of popular music in Iran, the correlation between notions of morality and music in general, and women's voices in particular,