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...

How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas?

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

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....

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

Sainsbury uncovers the significant but previously unknown contributions of the electioneers who advocated for Joseph Smith’s 1844 presidential campaign....

Redmond explores the ways in which Paul Robeson, silenced by state repression in his lifetime, still speaks to us today....

Gosin reveals how differing notions of “worthy citizenship” encouraged interethnic conflict...

Mason offers a sweeping history of Black theatre from the early nineteenth century through 1959...

Laderman tells us “surfing is not a mindless entertainment, but a cultural force born of empire (at least in its modern phase), reliant on Western power, and invested in neoliberal capitalism.”

How does social media impact presidential campaigns?

Bergman examines the public memorialization of women in the US over the past century, with a particular focus on the late twentieth century and early twenty first...

Chatelain examines the relationship between the fast-food industry, Black business owners, and the communities where they set up franchises after the Holy Week Uprisings of 1968...

How are we going to address inequality and put the economy on a sounder footing?

Stephens shows how Dr. James Dobson reached millions of American evangelical households and shaped the cultural sensibilities and political attitudes of the U.S. culture wars...

Arjomand provides a startling account of the many intersections between theatre and trials in Germany and the United States from the 1930s to the 1960s...

Recent calls for the defunding or abolition of police raise important questions about the legitimacy of state violence and the functions that police are supposed to serve...

In this book, well-known historians describe their journeys of writing books that have influenced our understanding of the Mormon past...

A politics-lovers guide to the 2020 presidential nomination process...

"Black Political Thought" is nuanced and long-needed anthology interrogates the “never ending issue” of the unequal positioning of black Americans...

The stories in "Slavery’s Descendants" deal with harrowing topics—rape, lynching, cruelty, shame—but they also describe acts of generosity,..

Baumgartner offers an intellectual and cultural history of the educational activism of African American women and girls in the long nineteenth century...

Glotzer examines the history surrounding how modern housing segregation was purposefully planned out beginning at the turn of the 20th Century...