With the Wilderness Act (1964) unable to protect this area of outstanding beauty, conservationists set out to apply moral rather than legal strategies of resistance...

Gualtieri uncovers the dynamic and complex stories of Arabic-speaking migrant communities who came to call Southern California home...

Matzko details its emergence in the 1950s and the response to its rise by some of the leading political and religious institutions of the era...

Pérez explores how Cuba’s dependency on the sugar economy also made the island’s population dependent on food imports like rice.

John Hervey Wheeler (1908–1978) was one of the civil rights movement's most influential leaders...

Americans are living through a social crisis, contends Yuval Levin...

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...

From backstage moms to tiny divas to dinner theatres, Wolf demonstrates that this charming pastime of American culture that is anything but past...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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?

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