Twarog examines how working- and middle-class American housewives used their identity as housewives to protest the high cost of food. In doing so, housewives' relationships with the state evolved over the course of the century...

Hodges emphasizes the history of slavery, religion, the rise of the Black middle class, and the quest for social equality through the Jim Crow era...

How does the world of book reviews work?

"It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.”

How has the expansion of the Black American middle class and the increase in the number of Black immigrants among them since the Civil Rights period transformed the cultural landscape of New York City?

Skinner constructs a comprehensive understanding of the politics of defining medical necessity...

What does the future hold for the Midwest?

Suitts examines the parallels between de facto segregationist practices and the modern school choice movement...

Rolsky makes the case for understanding Norman Lear as a key protagonist in the culture wars of the late 20th century...

Simon discusses the tragic consequences of the ethos of "cheap" for workers, communities, and the nation...

Amy Shira Teitel talks about Apollo and the community of people who are deeply attached to space history.

Pomson and Schnoor examine the impact of the family on Jewish identity.

Musicologists have long tried to understand how cosmopolitanism and nationalism affected classical music...

Michel examines the complicated relationship between the United States and Rhodesia...

Miller explains in great detail how Grant ultimately succeeded in taking the city and turning the tide of the war in favor of the Union...

Dockworker Power is a refreshing mixture of two methodological approaches that situates the study of black internationalism among workers...

Young provides a lyrical exploration of cultural encounters in the Pacific Northwest...

Larsen examines the American mythology of race, and its real-world effects,..

Lomazoff has written a kind of detective novel about the national bank controversy during the early years of the new republic

Drutman dives into both the problems with the current political dynamic and the possible solutions...

Day explores how the historical alignment of Asian bodies and labor with capital's abstract and negative dimensions became one of settler colonialism's foundational and defining features....

How do Muslim Americans respond to domestic violence?

In the United States, the number of megachurches increased from 350 in 1990 to over 1,600 in 2011 with that number continuing to grow exponentially in subsequent years...

Lewis documents the forging of Garvey’s remarkable vision of pan-Africanism and highlights his organizational skills in framing a response to the radical global popular upsurge following the First World War (1914–1918)...