Betancourt explores what makes Judy Garland’s landmark album great, and why it holds such a central place in queer culture...

In the 1970s and 1980s, a group of Chicago police officers routinely tortured criminal suspects in their custody, while fellow cops, state attorneys and elected officials looked the other way...

"The Osiris Papers" Is intended to be the first of many treatises written to examine the life, theories, and contributions of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing...

Dunbar-Hester investigates how open-technology communities are considering the question of diversity and inclusion.

Undocumented youth activists are at the forefront of the present-day immigrant rights movement....

By interrogating the Boasian intervention into the idea of biological race, Anderson shows how, despite their progressive and anti-racist intentions, Boas and ‘the Boasians’ naturalised the idea of the United States as a white nation...

The book tracks how anti-Blackness in America has long had everything to do with imperialism, working as much by removal as by predation...

For decades, the shortage of STEM talents has been a national concern in the United States...

Sex scandals are ubiquitous in American politics...

This second interview focuses more on a genocide studies reading of Dr. Estes’ book, raising questions about the history of genocide against Indigenous peoples, as well as Indigenous resistance and survival...

Harrison critiques many of the current methods of communicating and explores the growing divide within political discourse...

Fitzgerald’s story has become a key to American culture and American life itself...

Plotch discusses the problems of uneven funding, high costs, and political machinations that hobble the subway system-- and how, on Second Avenue, they were finally overcome...

Holland tells the story of one of the most successful political movements of the twentieth century in the United States: the grassroots campaign against legalized abortion...

What does the 1964 presidential election have to teach us about party dynamics, civil rights and polarization?

Garcia-Colon offers the first in-depth look at the experiences of Puerto Rican migrant workers in continental U.S. agriculture in the twentieth century...

In the middle of the twentieth century, a newspaper photographer who went by the name of Weegee took memorable pictures of New York City’s street life...

If gun violence kills so many Americans, why don’t we see more effective solutions?

Though not as well known today as many of his contemporaries, few American mob bosses were as feared as Albert Anastasia....

This interview coincides with the 70th anniversary of the Korean War, a war that, as Baik reminds us, has not officially ended...

Joseph unpacks the false binaries to reveal the many ways they influenced and persuaded one another. For Joseph, they shared a revolutionary path in search of black dignity, citizenship, and human rights...

Gergel connects the stories of Isaac Woodard, Harry Truman, and J. Waties Waring to illustrate how one incident fits into the larger history of civil rights...

Mia Fischer traces how media and state actors collude in the violent disciplining of trans women...