Viator describes how rap leapt across the continent from its New York roots in the mid-1980s and took hold in Los Angeles..

Born around 1820, Augusta Browne was a pianist, organist, composer, music pedagogue, entrepreneur, music critic, and writer...

Shister contends that Burning Man is a significant player in the avant-garde, forging new social paradigms as liberal democracy unravels. Burning Man’s contribution to this new order is postmodern, a fusion of sixties humanism with state-of-the-art Silicon Valley wizardry...

Sex, drugs, religion, and love are potent combinations in la zona, a regulated prostitution zone in the city of Reynosa, across the border from Hidalgo, Texas...

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,,,

The EU-US partnership has its frustrations and failings, writes Tony Gardner...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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?

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...

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...

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

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...

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?