Engstrom analyzes the various ways the series presented feminism as a positive force, such as the satirical portrayal of patriarchy...

Christian imagery, symbols, and motifs have long been used and incorporated in fashion.,,

Povitz demonstrates how grassroots activism continued to thrive, even as it was transformed by unrelenting erosion of the country's already fragile social safety net...

Rechtenwald argues that Big Digital technologies and their principals represent not only economic powerhouses but also new forms of governmental power...

Ryan offers the first sustained historical examination of the secondary fronts in the war on terror...

Since the 1940s, America’s relations with the rest of the world have been guided by the idea of promoting the free flow of information...

Griffen Spears discusses the decades long struggle for environmental and civil rights justice in Anniston, Alabama...

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...

Dark's essays take on self-improvement, self-acceptance, sexual attraction, language, aging, queer visibility, fashion, family, femininity, feminism, yoga culture, airplane seats, and the vilifying of fatness in the name of good health, among other compelling topics...

How does the world of book reviews work?

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

What does the future hold for the Midwest?

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

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?

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.

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

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

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...

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...

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...