Arata provides a compelling biography of Sarah Bickford and the larger story of black life in the rural West....

Smith discusses connection between our understanding of peoplehood and community, and the contemporary growth of populism around the world...

Blythe examines apocalypticism across the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, particularly as it took shape in the writings and visions of the laity...

In 1800, tens of millions of bison roamed the North American Great Plains...

In the first ever behind-the-scenes story of Goodfellas, film critic Glenn Kenny chronicles the making and afterlife of the film that introduced America to the real modern gangster—brutal, ruthless...

Goodwin offers a brilliant but shocking account of the criminalization of all aspects of reproduction, pregnancy, abortion, birth, and motherhood in the United States...

Rotramel explores women of color’s grassroots leadership in organizations that are not singularly identified with feminism....

Gene Ludwig cares. The former banker, government regulator, and serial entrepreneur cares deeply about the hollowing out of the American middle class over the past several decades, not least of all in his hometown of York, PA....

In 1927, the Hollywood stars (and spouses), Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr stood outside their California home, arms raised in fascist salute...

It has been nearly 70 years since William Patterson and Paul Roberson when before the UN and charged the US government with genocide...

Daddis explores how men's adventure magazines helped shape the attitudes of young, working-class Americans, the same men who fought and served in the long and bitter war in Vietnam...

An interview with Jennifer Cobbina

After his father died, James L. Nolan, Jr., took possession of a box of private family materials. To his surprise, the small secret archive contained a treasure trove of information about his grandfather’s role as a doctor in the Manhattan Project...

Gillum examines how public fears about Muslims in the United States compare with the reality of American Muslims’ attitudes on a range of relevant issues...

What happens when a woman seeking an abortion is turned away?

Why did America enter the First World War? The author presents a new theory...

Crandall demonstrates how Indigenous communities implemented, subverted, rejected, and indigenized colonial ideologies of democracy, both to accommodate and to oppose colonial power...

Every fall on move-in day, parents tearfully bid farewell to their beloved sons and daughters at college dormitories: it is an age-old ritual...

This is the story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease....

Kuhn cautions Americans to look back to the 1970s with an eye to class to better understand our political tribalism...

This book captures these complex varieties of Sufism in America...

It is 1969 and Jody A. Forrester is in her late teens, transitioning from a Sixties love child to pacifist anti-Vietnam War activist to an ardent revolutionary...

The relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia is a critical feature of the modern international system...

It's a good question....

Goddu a richly illustrated history of the American Anti-Slavery Society and its print, material, and visual artifacts...