For much of the last century, ballet class has been a rite of passage for millions of little girls in the United States.

Chakravarti a thoughtful analysis of the role of the jury in American democracy, with specific attention to the way that the jury experience can provide the structure for more substantive civic engagement....

Manus argues that Trump and other similar figures and movements represent a new form of conservatism, one with a long history of development, and formed as a response to various social dynamics...

Van Engen examines early American literature, the history of emotions, Puritanism, collective memory, and American Exceptionalism...

According to Robert Sirvent and Danny Haiphong, Americans have been exposed to fake news throughout our history...

During the early 1970s, a movement of rank-and-file coal miners rose up in Appalachia to challenge mine bosses and stodgy union officials...

What would you do if you questioned your religious faith, but revealing that would cause you to lose your family and the only way of life you had ever known?

Why was mass democratization – abolishing property and tax qualifications – accompanied by the mass disenfranchisement of black, male citizens?

Bickford addresses the ways in which the music industry seized only childishness as a key element in legitimizing children's participation in public culture...

As a novelist, short story author, screenwriter, and Nobel laureate, William Faulkner looms large in modern American literature.,.

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...