Franke’s ambitious new book challenges Americans to face our collective responsibility for ongoing racial inequality...

Picken and Dischinger argue in the introduction that the relationship between the US South and alcohol has been overdetermined in popular imagination...

García makes a substantial contribution to the history of segregation in the US by examining its implementation and preservation in the city of Oxnard, California from 1903 to 1974...

The Trail of Tears, during which the United States violently expelled thousands of Indigenous peoples from their ancestral homelands in the southeast, was anything but inevitable...

Barnett describes how to redesign megaregional growth using mostly private investment,..

Lupick explains the concept of harm reduction as a crucial component of a city’s response to the drug crisis. It tells the story of a grassroots group of addicts in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside who waged a political street fight for two decades to transform how the city treats its most marginalized citizens...

White and Laird explore the political behavior of African American voters in the United States...

Brown expands our understanding of the relationship between European, African, and American history, as it speaks to our understanding of wars of terror today....

Of the many thousands who participated in the American and French revolutions in the late 18th century, only a handful played roles in both events...

"Sexual Citizens" is based on years of research interviewing and observing college life—with students of different races, genders, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic backgrounds...

Windham discusses why the 1970s should be seen as more than a moment of decline for the U.S. labor movement...

Whooley’s book is no anti-psychiatric screed; instead, he reveals a field that has muddled through periodic reinventions and conflicting agendas of curiosity, compassion, and professional striving.

Forret explores the career of prominent slave trader William H. Williams, whose operation was based in Washington DC...

Park examines a neglected part of the Mormon past -- the establishment of a thriving Latter-day Saint metropolis in Illinois. In Nauvoo,..

Hamlin offers a fascinating biography of a little-known suffrage leader...

Austin's book is not only a history of black youth in Washington D.C. in the 1930s but also a history of social science thought as illustrated in the work of scholars such as sociologists E. Franklin Frazier and William H. Jones...

Redwood gives us fresh insights into why the populist movements and parties have been winning elections...

Gems provides readers with an extensive overview of how the diverse stakeholders of the metropolis have "used" sport in their neighborhoods (as well as the broader community) to claim their share of athletic life in the Windy City...

Wolbrecht and Corder weave together a variety of methodological frameworks to guide the reader through an understanding of both women and men as voters during the past hundred years...

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

Fischbach examines the way that a host of groups on the American found themselves divided over which country they ought to support and how to fit that support into campaigns against imperialism or U.S. foreign policy...

Wilkerson discusses the recent history of feminist social justice activism in Appalachia...

Stein analyses the longstanding failure of America’s theatre industry to address issues of diversity...

Focusing on the Nestucca river valley, Taylor shows how nature, culture, markets, and technology affected the "callings," or identities, of residents from pre-colonial times to the very recent past....

Curtis argues that the place of Muslim Americans in the narrative and praxis of American law, politics, rights discourse, and much are, must be questioned...