Myers explores how black student activists—young men and women— helped shape and resist the rightward shift and neoliberal foundations of American politics....

Colleges fiercely defend America’s higher education system, arguing that it rewards bright kids who have worked hard. But it doesn’t actually work this way...

What brought about an end to the Cold War has long been a subject of speculation and mythology...

Ferguson argues that there is more going on in cookbooks than just recipes...

Robinson provides a comprehensive look at the church’s improbable development against a backdrop of African American oppression...

The Jakarta Method joins a growing body of scholarly work on what some call a “political genocide” and what a 1968 CIA report deemed “one of the worst mass murders of the 20th century”.

For too long the Religious Right has masqueraded as a social movement preoccupied with a number of cultural issues, such as abortion and same-sex marriage....

Lundberg finds within his seemingly contradictory positions a consistent belief in the power of print to forge American nationalism...

Glass evaluates the widely held assumption that divisions between urban areas are reflections of varying amounts of crime, deprivation, and other social, cultural, and economic problems....

Maxwell shows exactly how and why progressives can lean into identity politics, empowering marginalized groups, and uniting under a common vision that will benefit us all...

MacLean tracks the development of a secretive political establishment—the capitalist radical right or “property supremacists”—working to alter the rules of democratic governance...

Goodman offers an expansive history of deportation from the United States that threads the late-nineteenth century through to the present...

Tcherneva challenges us to imagine a world where the phantom of unemployment is banished and anyone who seeks decent, living-wage work can find it - guaranteed....

Should we understand the conservative elites of #Never Trump as homogeneous and united? Failed renegades? Moral guardians of republicanism and values?

Cadava illuminates the history of the millions of Hispanic Republicans who, since the 1960s, have had a significant impact on national politics...

In the summer of 1960, the Republic of the Congo won its independence from Belgium...

Cerretti argue that a project of militarizing sexuality succeeded in the 1990s United States...

Clemmons offers a touching coming of age story that reveals what it felt like to be young, gifted, black, and gay during a time of intense racism and homophobia....

When, in 1883, Congress charged the US Army with managing Yellowstone National Park, soldiers encountered a new sort of hostility...

Jabour's rediscovers this groundbreaking American figure...

Goldfield charts the rise of labor activism in each and then examines how and why labor organizers struggled so mightily in the region...

Roberts tells the story of the city through bricks, glass, wood, and mortar, revealing why and how it evolved into the nation's biggest and most influential....

How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas?

Chase narrates the struggle to change prison from within...

Garrett brings his signature brand of theologically motivated cultural criticism to bear on this history...