Poblete demonstrates how western-style economics, policy-making, and knowledge building imposed by the U.S. federal government have been infused into the daily lives of American Samoans...

In Chicago, "public safety" and "social justice" do not alway go hand in hand...

Among the tens of thousands of Americans who volunteered their services during the Civil War was Mary Walker, a daring young woman who was one of the handful of female doctors in the nation at that time...

Before Ronald Reagan appointed Sandra Day O’Connor to the Supreme Court in 1981, nine highly qualified women were on the shortlist. What do the stories of these women tell us about the judiciary? Gender? Feminism? Race?

Martinez-Matsuda exams the Farm Security Administration’s Migratory Labor Camp Program, and its role in the daily lives of a diverse number of farmworker families...

Bachynski examines American football from its origins from the perspective of a public health specialist and an historian...

Zien examines the ways politicians, activists, artists, and residents performed and interpreted sovereignty in the Canal Zone...

Road Sides pays homage to popular travel guides with its short chapters, one for each letter of the alphabet containing a brief contextualizing essay followed by a feature of a specific location, business, or product...

Gomer illustrates the myriad of ways that Hollywood relied on and helped solidify an emerging ideology of colorblindness in the wake of the civil rights movement...

Bishop details the remarkable cultural history and personal stories behind an iconic figure of Cold War masculinity—the fallout shelter father...

In the United States, each election cycle reminds us that younger voters vote at much lower rates than their older counterparts...

In the 1970s and 1980s, a group of Chicago police officers routinely tortured criminal suspects in their custody, while fellow cops, state attorneys and elected officials looked the other way...

Betancourt explores what makes Judy Garland’s landmark album great, and why it holds such a central place in queer culture...

"The Osiris Papers" Is intended to be the first of many treatises written to examine the life, theories, and contributions of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing...

Undocumented youth activists are at the forefront of the present-day immigrant rights movement....

Dunbar-Hester investigates how open-technology communities are considering the question of diversity and inclusion.

Sex scandals are ubiquitous in American politics...

By interrogating the Boasian intervention into the idea of biological race, Anderson shows how, despite their progressive and anti-racist intentions, Boas and ‘the Boasians’ naturalised the idea of the United States as a white nation...

For decades, the shortage of STEM talents has been a national concern in the United States...

The book tracks how anti-Blackness in America has long had everything to do with imperialism, working as much by removal as by predation...

Harrison critiques many of the current methods of communicating and explores the growing divide within political discourse...

This second interview focuses more on a genocide studies reading of Dr. Estes’ book, raising questions about the history of genocide against Indigenous peoples, as well as Indigenous resistance and survival...

Fitzgerald’s story has become a key to American culture and American life itself...