Waitoller highlights the challenges faced by students of color who have special needs and their parents who evaluate their educational options...

Fraser-Rahim explores the oldest and perhaps the most important Muslim community in America, whose story has received little attention in the contemporary context...

What is money? No, really, what is money? It turns out the answer is not so simple.

"Laboring Women" was the first historical text to focus on Black women’s reproductive labor under New World slavery in the early modern period...

What would actually make America great? More people.

"Can't Be Faded" is a collaboration between musician and ethnomusicologist Kyle DeCoste and more than a dozen members of the Stooges Brass Band, past and present...

What is the political and intellectual legacy of Shirley Chisholm?

McCoy provides a blueprint for managing pandemics in the twenty-first century...

Kelly argues that the increasing concentration of economic power effects political power, thus allowing the gap between the rich and everyone else to become more acute and more rigid...

One of the most perplexing elements of Donald Trumps’s 2016 electoral victory was the overwhelming support he received from white Evangelicals...

Marszalek shares conversations with same-sex couples living in small-town and rural Mississippi...

Oliver H. Olney, an early convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, fled to Nauvoo, Illinois, following persecution in Missouri...

Nash examines the history of the "Big Six" and how they carved out their rightful place in history..

Mayeux explores the rise, both in the idea and practice, of the public defender throughout the 20th century...

Roosevelt could have bombed the camps and saved Jews. Why didn't he? It's a hard question....

By the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings and lay down universal basic entitlements. Exactly how and when did “rights” come to justify such measures?

In September 1941, a handful of isolationist senators set out to tarnish Hollywood for warmongering...

An incisive new look at the black diaspora, examining the true roots of antiblackness and its destructive effects on all of society.

Witch hunts. Not the metaphorical kind. Real witch hunts. Learn all about it here...

Trump is not the first Republican to rise to power by pushing incendiary policies and destroying opponents...

Lem draws upon diverse cultural representation from movies, films, books, and art, and juxtaposes these narratives of aging with surveys from over 200 seniors aged 65 and over from around the United States to explore questions of meaning in older life...

Over the past six decades, Henry Kissinger has been America's most consistently praised--and reviled--public figure...

Long explores the influence of concepts such karma, rebirth, meditation and yoga on the American consciousness, along with Hindu temples in America...

Maduro was greatly responsible for the Cuban League’s recognition by professional baseball (in the US)....

Klein considers eating and early American aesthetics together, reframing the philosophical work of food and its meaning for the people who prepare, serve, and consume it...