Plotch discusses the problems of uneven funding, high costs, and political machinations that hobble the subway system-- and how, on Second Avenue, they were finally overcome...

Holland tells the story of one of the most successful political movements of the twentieth century in the United States: the grassroots campaign against legalized abortion...

Garcia-Colon offers the first in-depth look at the experiences of Puerto Rican migrant workers in continental U.S. agriculture in the twentieth century...

Though not as well known today as many of his contemporaries, few American mob bosses were as feared as Albert Anastasia....

This interview coincides with the 70th anniversary of the Korean War, a war that, as Baik reminds us, has not officially ended...

In the middle of the twentieth century, a newspaper photographer who went by the name of Weegee took memorable pictures of New York City’s street life...

What does the 1964 presidential election have to teach us about party dynamics, civil rights and polarization?

If gun violence kills so many Americans, why don’t we see more effective solutions?

Joseph unpacks the false binaries to reveal the many ways they influenced and persuaded one another. For Joseph, they shared a revolutionary path in search of black dignity, citizenship, and human rights...

Mia Fischer traces how media and state actors collude in the violent disciplining of trans women...

Gergel connects the stories of Isaac Woodard, Harry Truman, and J. Waties Waring to illustrate how one incident fits into the larger history of civil rights...

A movie that began as a cautionary tale inspired by atomic scientists aiming to warn the world against a nuclear arms race would be drained of all impact due to revisions and retakes ordered by President Truman and the military..,.

The book examines how TV impacts our expectations of leadership, organizational life, and pedagogy.

Shimer narrates in meticulous but page-turning detail a century of covert electoral interference, by both the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and continuing to this day...

Turner challenges assumptions regarding the intersection between black religion and politics in this “signal moment of political and cultural transformation in the African-American experience.”

Grace Elizabeth Hale tells the epic story of the Athens, Georgia music scene...

Maurantonio’s interdisciplinary book treats the state of Virginia as a confederate museum to be analyzed....

"Smithsonian American Women" is an inspiring and surprising celebration of U.S. women's history told through Smithsonian artifacts...

Colleges fiercely defend America’s higher education system, arguing that it rewards bright kids who have worked hard. But it doesn’t actually work this way...

Myers explores how black student activists—young men and women— helped shape and resist the rightward shift and neoliberal foundations of American politics....

For too long the Religious Right has masqueraded as a social movement preoccupied with a number of cultural issues, such as abortion and same-sex marriage....

Ferguson argues that there is more going on in cookbooks than just recipes...

The Jakarta Method joins a growing body of scholarly work on what some call a “political genocide” and what a 1968 CIA report deemed “one of the worst mass murders of the 20th century”.

What brought about an end to the Cold War has long been a subject of speculation and mythology...

Robinson provides a comprehensive look at the church’s improbable development against a backdrop of African American oppression...