Gomez illuminates the fascinating race-making, unmaking, and re-making of Latino identity that has spanned centuries, leaving a permanent imprint on how race operates in the United States today...

How does the United States use immigration to suppress free speech?

81% of white evangelical voters supported Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election....

The book focuses on the intersection of racecraft around Muslims and imperial projects of domination by gathering committed scholars and activists to reflect on how we’ve gotten here and how we can move forward...

Over the course of three decades of public service, Herbert Lehman dedicated himself tirelessly to advances the causes in which he believed...

Today’s podcast – recorded on Wednesday, August 12th (less than 24 hours after Democratic candidate Joe Biden announced Senator Kamala Harris as his Vice Presidential pick) – cuts through the hype of “veep stakes” by providing a deep dive....

Barnett also engages the early recording industry as entertainment media, considering the ways in which sound recording, radio, and film converge in the late 1920s...

What does democracy look like? And when should we cause trouble to pursue it?

What explains voting behavior in local elections? More specifically, what explains how ethnic and racial blocs vote in local elections, especially when the candidate may be of a different race or ethnicity?

Have we destroyed the public university? Christopher Newfield thinks so...

Fischer explores the hidden world of pharmaceutical testing on healthy volunteers...

In 1912, at age 24, Georgia O’Keeffe boarded a train in Virginia and headed west, to the prairies of the Texas Panhandle...

What happens when a new group of migrants enters not just the social and economic life of a city, but also its religious institutions?

Pawley examines a place and period of enormous agricultural vitality—antebellum New York State—and follows thousands of “improving agriculturists,..

Winling casts higher education as the beneficiary and catalyst of the century's monumental state building projects--receiving millions in New Deal construction funds, even more from WWII-era military research, and directing the bulldozer's path during urban renewal schemes around the country...

The American attitude towards outsiders has always been ambivalent....

Nall shows us that a blurry boundary between science and journalism was a key feature—not a bug—of the emergence of modern astronomy....

This sweeping new history recognizes that the Civil War was not just a military conflict but also a moment of profound transformation in Americans' relationship to the natural world....

The men and women of the US Army were among the first to confront the Japanese military onslaught, most notably in the Philippines...

Richards argues that the map of North America was not preordained...

Beginning in the 1950s, a group of academics, businesspeople, and politicians set out on an ambitious project to remake North Carolina’s low-wage economy...

Mormonism's founder, Joseph Smith, claimed to have translated ancient scriptures. He dictated an American Bible from metal plates reportedly buried by ancient Jews in a nearby hill,...

Lindsay explores a number of tourist attractions that play a crucial role in teaching Americans about their past...

Rectenwald returns with his characteristic sharp wit and incisive analysis and continues to fine tune his critique of modern leftism...

This book is Caridad Svich’s love letter to the 1998 musical that introduced the world to its favorite East German ex-pat genderqueer rock star, Hedwig...