Have we destroyed the public university? Christopher Newfield thinks so...

Pawley examines a place and period of enormous agricultural vitality—antebellum New York State—and follows thousands of “improving agriculturists,..

What happens when a new group of migrants enters not just the social and economic life of a city, but also its religious institutions?

In 1912, at age 24, Georgia O’Keeffe boarded a train in Virginia and headed west, to the prairies of the Texas Panhandle...

Winling casts higher education as the beneficiary and catalyst of the century's monumental state building projects--receiving millions in New Deal construction funds, even more from WWII-era military research, and directing the bulldozer's path during urban renewal schemes around the country...

The American attitude towards outsiders has always been ambivalent....

The men and women of the US Army were among the first to confront the Japanese military onslaught, most notably in the Philippines...

Nall shows us that a blurry boundary between science and journalism was a key feature—not a bug—of the emergence of modern astronomy....

This sweeping new history recognizes that the Civil War was not just a military conflict but also a moment of profound transformation in Americans' relationship to the natural world....

Mormonism's founder, Joseph Smith, claimed to have translated ancient scriptures. He dictated an American Bible from metal plates reportedly buried by ancient Jews in a nearby hill,...

Richards argues that the map of North America was not preordained...

Beginning in the 1950s, a group of academics, businesspeople, and politicians set out on an ambitious project to remake North Carolina’s low-wage economy...

Rectenwald returns with his characteristic sharp wit and incisive analysis and continues to fine tune his critique of modern leftism...

Lindsay explores a number of tourist attractions that play a crucial role in teaching Americans about their past...

Wilde shows that support for contraception among some of America’s most prominent religious groups was tied to white supremacist views of race, immigration, and manifest destiny....

Buer explores the gendered inequalities that situate women’s encounters with substance abuse treatment as well as additional state interventions targeted at women who use drugs in one of the most impoverished regions in the US....

Olivas provides a much needed legal and political history of the DREAM Act that spans over two decades from its introduction in Congress (2001) to the Trump Administration challenge of legality in the Supreme Court (2017)....

This book is Caridad Svich’s love letter to the 1998 musical that introduced the world to its favorite East German ex-pat genderqueer rock star, Hedwig...

Gertrude Hoffman is one of many entertainers who were big stars in vaudeville before World War I, but whose celebrity faded as the American public was seduced by radio and film after the Great War.

Gruber explains how the women’s movement in America has shaped the law on domestic violence and sexual assault...

Gleason’s experiences with the House Un-American Activities Committee and Dr. Frederic Wertham and other Anti-Comic activists give a glimpse into important political and social activism of the 1940s and 50s in American history...

How do we move police forces from a warrior culture to connecting better with communities they serve?

Chervinsky traces the origins of the President’s cabinet in American government...

Dr. James Burt believed women’s bodies were broken, and only he could fix them....

White beautifully brings to life the lives and experiences of a number of enslaved women and men whose individual stories have heretofore never been told..,