Are we asleep at the (common)wheel?

Wakin offers an up-close exploration of the evolution that has taken place with unsheltered homelessness....

What is the connection between the movement for death penalty abolition and the anti-slavery movement?

Fahs has curated a comprehensive collection of feminist manifestos from the nineteenth century to today...

“What is Africa to me?”, African-American writer Countee Cullen asked in "Color."

Where is American music?

"Jewish New York" reveals the multifaceted world of one of the city’s most important ethnic and religious groups...

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

You mean big business is good, contributes to our general welfare, and is not generally guilty--with notable exceptions--of all of the charges made against it?

Nadell surveys varied experiences of Jewish women who made America their home. In elegant prose, she introduces readers to a fascinating cast of characters from the seventeenth century to the present day...

LIzotte helps us to understand the concept of the gender gap in American politics and how this gap looks across a host of different policy areas....

Suddler brings to light a much longer history of the policies and strategies that tethered the lives of black youths to the justice system indefinitely...

What is it like to sit in the Oval Office and discuss policy with the president?

According to Viet Thanh Nguyen, all wars are fought twice: first on the field of battle, and then in the struggles over memory...

Discenna paints a compelling picture of “the denial of academic labor” happening across public and private institutions...

Barcia offers a striking rendition of the diseases that swept through the illegal slave trade Atlantic World...

Cook shows that there is a deep religious strain within the American Left despite contrary common perceptions...

In recent decades, the number of Americans and Canadians who identify has nonreligious has risen considerably..

Mercieca describes the Trump campaign’s expert use of the common demagogic rhetorical techniques...

Lachmann argues that while imperial expansion can deliver more resources to their centers, they can also create dynamics of elite conflict...

Nathanson examines the life of Jim Bouton, a journeyman pitcher whose 1970 book, “Ball Four,” was a lightning rod for controversy and became one of the best sports books of all time....

Though the collection is diverse in genre – including academic essays alongside poetry, memoir, and illustration – the contents are united around challenging and complicating a notion of a single Appalachia....

Did Donald Trump win the U.S. presidency in 2016 because he was a master of character work – able to sum up opponents in pithy epithets that encourage the public to see them as weak or immoral?

Charles Lord Cornwallis’s campaign through the southern American colonies came to an ignominious close on October 19, 1781, on an open field outside Yorktown, Virginia...

How can we make sense of the elections of Barack Obama and Donald Trump?