McGreevey explores the contested meaning and limits of citizenship for Puerto Ricans from the late nineteenth century to the late 1930s...

Perelman examines the consequences of Japan’s decision not to tackle the tuberculosis epidemic that ravaged the country during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth....

Felber examines efforts to build broad-based grassroots coalitions among liberals, radicals, and nationalist to oppose the carceral state and struggle for local Black self-determination...

Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, creative nonfiction and original art, the book provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte...

The idea of voting is simple, but the administration of elections in ways that ensure access and integrity is complex...

In 1883, a young woman named Anandi Joshi set out from her native India to the United States to study medicine..,

This book provides a wealth of information and analysis of the reasons why women (and men) choose to run for public office and what that path looks like in terms of training, support, obstacles, and advantages...

Perhaps nothing was as unexpected in this conflict as the sudden termination of the same in November 1918...

Commonly referred to as “Gay Mardi Gras,” the Southern Decadence festival began in 1972 as a spontaneous end-of-the-summer celebration...

On March 31, 1968, over 500 Black nationalists convened in Detroit to begin the process of securing independence from the United States...

Winslow offers a fresh, provocative, and insightful contribution to our most pressing social challenges by taking an orientation toward catastrophe....

Holland explores the development of the movement from the legalization of Roe v. Wade in 1973 to the present...

Lappas unearths the story of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in Indian country...

Gillion analyses the connection between protests and the influence this public activism has on the voting electorate....

Turek examines the growth and influence of Christian foreign policy lobbying groups in the United States beginning in the 1970s...

"Welfare for the Rich" is the first book to describe and analyze the many ways that federal and state governments provide handouts to millionaires, billionaires, and the companies they own and run...

A path-breaking work of religion and gender and sexuality, "Tabernacles of Clay" sets the agenda for a new generation of scholars interested in the recent Latter-day Saint past.

Hilary Moore and James Tracy recounts the stories of fearless organizers and activists who created an anti-racist social movement that fought against the normalization of white supremacy during the 1970s and 1980s...

Turkey was both a model case of elite-led modernization and a laboratory for development projects that could then be exported to other societies....

Dolmage links anti-immigration rhetoric to eugenics—the flawed “science” of controlling human population based on racist and ableist ideas about bodily values...

Wilkman offers a a widescreen view of how American “truth” has been discovered, defined, projected, televised, and streamed,,,

This memoir is about the power of home, and the transformative act of restoring one house in particular...

Seider and Graves address how schools can help Black and Latinx youth to understand these racial disparities, resist the negative effects of racial injustice and challenge its root causes...