Cerretti argue that a project of militarizing sexuality succeeded in the 1990s United States...

Cadava illuminates the history of the millions of Hispanic Republicans who, since the 1960s, have had a significant impact on national politics...

Clemmons offers a touching coming of age story that reveals what it felt like to be young, gifted, black, and gay during a time of intense racism and homophobia....

In the summer of 1960, the Republic of the Congo won its independence from Belgium...

When, in 1883, Congress charged the US Army with managing Yellowstone National Park, soldiers encountered a new sort of hostility...

Jabour's rediscovers this groundbreaking American figure...

Chase narrates the struggle to change prison from within...

Roberts tells the story of the city through bricks, glass, wood, and mortar, revealing why and how it evolved into the nation's biggest and most influential....

Garrett brings his signature brand of theologically motivated cultural criticism to bear on this history...

How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas?

Goldfield charts the rise of labor activism in each and then examines how and why labor organizers struggled so mightily in the region...

Sainsbury uncovers the significant but previously unknown contributions of the electioneers who advocated for Joseph Smith’s 1844 presidential campaign....

Redmond explores the ways in which Paul Robeson, silenced by state repression in his lifetime, still speaks to us today....

Gosin reveals how differing notions of “worthy citizenship” encouraged interethnic conflict...

Mason offers a sweeping history of Black theatre from the early nineteenth century through 1959...

How does social media impact presidential campaigns?

Laderman tells us “surfing is not a mindless entertainment, but a cultural force born of empire (at least in its modern phase), reliant on Western power, and invested in neoliberal capitalism.”

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...

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

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...

Arjomand provides a startling account of the many intersections between theatre and trials in Germany and the United States from the 1930s to the 1960s...

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...

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

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...

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