Storhoff explores the channels of musical exchange between Cuba and the United States during the eight-year presidency of Barack Obama...

“My aim is to explain how and why a certain notion of the self has come to dominate the culture of the West,..."

Weigel and Tarnoff take an unprecedented dive into the tech industry, conducting unfiltered, in-depth, anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels,,,

Throughout American history, views on the proper relationship between the state and religion have been deeply divided...

Yang explores how antiblack racism lived on through the figure of the Chinese worker in US literature after emancipation...

When we think of early American political thought, we tend to overlook the powerful influence of the natural environment on the formation of settlement in both theory and practice...

Campbell explores how a therapy that can stop an accidental drug overdose, called Naloxone, emerged in the American mainstream in the early years of the new millennium...

Brenes argues that after the beginning of the Cold War, defense spending became an important part of the federal social safety net...

Mulder and Marti offer a compelling look at the rise and fall of one of the most popular and influential Christian evangelists of the twentieth century,..

By 1935 William Faulkner was well established as an author of critically praised novels, yet the low volume of his sales forced him to seek work in Hollywood....

Focusing on the period between 1948 and 1968, Eddie Cole shows how college presidents, during a time of violence and unrest, strategically, yet often silently, initiated and shaped racial policies and practices inside and outside of the educational sphere...

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

Vats offers an intricate and meticulously researched text on intellectual property history, race, and citizenship from the 1790s to the present...

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...

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

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....

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...

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

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....

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...

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