Quammen situates the Bundy standoff within the long and convoluted history of Mormon migration into the American West—and provides an exciting new take on religion in modern American politics...

Yang recounts the personalities and debates that brought about the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which forms the foundation for modern U.S. immigration policy...

Mattina offers the first full biography of Reichard, and examines her pathbreaking work in the ethnography of ritual and mythology; Wiyot, Coeur d’Alene, and Navajo linguistics; folk art, gender, and language; and her exceptional career of teaching, editing, publishing, and mentoring...

How do young men use drill music and social media to gain power?

Stevenson explores the ubiquity of what she terms the “woman-slave analogy” in nineteenth-century US feminist discourse...

Want to know under what pretexts a local government can seize your house?

For much of the last century, ballet class has been a rite of passage for millions of little girls in the United States.

Grant analyses the impact of the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to northern cities, and how this changed the political dynamics in many of the places where African Americans settled and built new lives...

Chakravarti a thoughtful analysis of the role of the jury in American democracy, with specific attention to the way that the jury experience can provide the structure for more substantive civic engagement....

Manus argues that Trump and other similar figures and movements represent a new form of conservatism, one with a long history of development, and formed as a response to various social dynamics...

Van Engen examines early American literature, the history of emotions, Puritanism, collective memory, and American Exceptionalism...

According to Robert Sirvent and Danny Haiphong, Americans have been exposed to fake news throughout our history...

During the early 1970s, a movement of rank-and-file coal miners rose up in Appalachia to challenge mine bosses and stodgy union officials...

Why was mass democratization – abolishing property and tax qualifications – accompanied by the mass disenfranchisement of black, male citizens?

What would you do if you questioned your religious faith, but revealing that would cause you to lose your family and the only way of life you had ever known?

Bickford addresses the ways in which the music industry seized only childishness as a key element in legitimizing children's participation in public culture...

As a novelist, short story author, screenwriter, and Nobel laureate, William Faulkner looms large in modern American literature.,.

Horowitz argues that the radical (in)difference between kings and queens provides a window into the perennial rift between lesbians and gay men...

Renfro narrates how the bereaved parents of missing and slain children turned their grief into a mass movement and, alongside journalists and policymakers from both major political parties, propelled a moral panic...

Incivility in our public discourse is limiting our ability to get things done as a nation and preventing us from expressing ourselves in workplaces and classrooms for fear of offending those with real or imagined historical grievances or even merely strongly held views...

Vinsel argues that automobiles have been shaped by government regulation through and through...

García evaluates how the end of the Cold War brought new and unanticipated challenges to upholding this commitment from 1989 to the present...

How we design our cities over the next four decades will be critical for our planet...

Shapiro turns his attention to the reception of Shakespeare in the US from the colonial period to the present...