Chatelain examines the relationship between the fast-food industry, Black business owners, and the communities where they set up franchises after the Holy Week Uprisings of 1968...

Stephens shows how Dr. James Dobson reached millions of American evangelical households and shaped the cultural sensibilities and political attitudes of the U.S. culture wars...

Bergman examines the public memorialization of women in the US over the past century, with a particular focus on the late twentieth century and early twenty first...

How are we going to address inequality and put the economy on a sounder footing?

Recent calls for the defunding or abolition of police raise important questions about the legitimacy of state violence and the functions that police are supposed to serve...

In this book, well-known historians describe their journeys of writing books that have influenced our understanding of the Mormon past...

The stories in "Slavery’s Descendants" deal with harrowing topics—rape, lynching, cruelty, shame—but they also describe acts of generosity,..

A politics-lovers guide to the 2020 presidential nomination process...

"Black Political Thought" is nuanced and long-needed anthology interrogates the “never ending issue” of the unequal positioning of black Americans...

Baumgartner offers an intellectual and cultural history of the educational activism of African American women and girls in the long nineteenth century...

Glotzer examines the history surrounding how modern housing segregation was purposefully planned out beginning at the turn of the 20th Century...

McGreevey explores the contested meaning and limits of citizenship for Puerto Ricans from the late nineteenth century to the late 1930s...

The idea of voting is simple, but the administration of elections in ways that ensure access and integrity is complex...

Perelman examines the consequences of Japan’s decision not to tackle the tuberculosis epidemic that ravaged the country during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth....

Felber examines efforts to build broad-based grassroots coalitions among liberals, radicals, and nationalist to oppose the carceral state and struggle for local Black self-determination...

Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, creative nonfiction and original art, the book provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte...

In 1883, a young woman named Anandi Joshi set out from her native India to the United States to study medicine..,

This book provides a wealth of information and analysis of the reasons why women (and men) choose to run for public office and what that path looks like in terms of training, support, obstacles, and advantages...

Commonly referred to as “Gay Mardi Gras,” the Southern Decadence festival began in 1972 as a spontaneous end-of-the-summer celebration...

Perhaps nothing was as unexpected in this conflict as the sudden termination of the same in November 1918...

On March 31, 1968, over 500 Black nationalists convened in Detroit to begin the process of securing independence from the United States...

Holland explores the development of the movement from the legalization of Roe v. Wade in 1973 to the present...

Lappas unearths the story of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in Indian country...

Winslow offers a fresh, provocative, and insightful contribution to our most pressing social challenges by taking an orientation toward catastrophe....