Horowitz argues that the radical (in)difference between kings and queens provides a window into the perennial rift between lesbians and gay men...

Incivility in our public discourse is limiting our ability to get things done as a nation and preventing us from expressing ourselves in workplaces and classrooms for fear of offending those with real or imagined historical grievances or even merely strongly held views...

Vinsel argues that automobiles have been shaped by government regulation through and through...

García evaluates how the end of the Cold War brought new and unanticipated challenges to upholding this commitment from 1989 to the present...

Renfro narrates how the bereaved parents of missing and slain children turned their grief into a mass movement and, alongside journalists and policymakers from both major political parties, propelled a moral panic...

How we design our cities over the next four decades will be critical for our planet...

Shapiro turns his attention to the reception of Shakespeare in the US from the colonial period to the present...

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

Iverson highlights the importance of manufacturing in our economy as well as the ways parents, mentors, and teachers can work together to foster the character traits and critical thinking skills required in the twentieth-century workforce...

After a life lived in obscurity, Emily Dickinson emerged after death as one of the greatest poets of her time...

Donaldson investigates how African American soldiers used their military service to challenge white notions of an African American second-class citizenry and forged a new identity as freedom fighters...

The authors offer a timely and wise analysis of globalization and how it has fundamentally transformed governance....

Dorrell covers approaches, strategies, and topics important for the study of Islam today...

La Chapelle traces interactions between country music and politics beginning with two late nineteenth-century politicians who fiddled to their supporters and ending with the 2016 election season...

Domby has written a rigorous analysis of American political memory as it connects to the Civil War and long shadow of the Confederacy,,,

These essays trace important developments in performance art both in the Los Angeles and New York scenes, discuss artists including Laurie Anderson, Spalding Gray, Meredith Monk, and Lin Hixson...

From moral panics about immigration and gun control to anxiety about terrorism and natural disasters, Americans live in a culture of fear...

Elmer's anthology provides access into a world of religious practice that is otherwise lost – many puritans refusing on principle to put their prayers to paper...

The authors present Agnew as a progenitor of the conservative populism associated today with America’s 45th president...

In 1831, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites, mostly women and children. After more than two months in hiding, Turner was captured, and quickly convicted and executed...

Dhingra offers up-close evaluation of the competitive nature of the United States education system and the extra-curricular and co-curricular activities associated with them...

wift argues that the left is dominated by what he terms hobbyists and performative radicals...

Written from the perspective of the district 17 (CPUSA) Reds who worked primarily in Alabama, the book acquaints a new generation with the impact of the Great Depression on postwar black and white, young and old, urban and rural Americans.

Jain offers a concise history of Hindus and Jains in the Americas over the last two centuries..

Block painstakingly recovers the origins of baseball games through a close reading of a wide variety of 18th-century sources including newspaper clippings, novels, and diaries...