According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

Fischbach examines the way that a host of groups on the American found themselves divided over which country they ought to support and how to fit that support into campaigns against imperialism or U.S. foreign policy...

Wilkerson discusses the recent history of feminist social justice activism in Appalachia...

Stein analyses the longstanding failure of America’s theatre industry to address issues of diversity...

Curtis argues that the place of Muslim Americans in the narrative and praxis of American law, politics, rights discourse, and much are, must be questioned...

Focusing on the Nestucca river valley, Taylor shows how nature, culture, markets, and technology affected the "callings," or identities, of residents from pre-colonial times to the very recent past....

Hughes creatively combines the literature on cities with a comparative case study of three American cities to explore how New York, Los Angeles, and Toronto moved from making commitments to fulfilling them...

Troy examines some of the juiciest, nastiest, and most consequential internecine administration struggles in modern American history...

Hoerl explores the construction of “the sixties” in Hollywood media, from Family Ties and The Wonder Years to Law and Order, arguing that these texts have proved dismissive, if not adversarial, to the role of dissent in fostering progressive social change...

What do prisoner laborers, graduate students, welfare workers, and college athletes have in common?

Cook investigates how and why women have developed the roles they have, and interrogates US counterterrorism practices in key countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yemen...

Dienstag considers the interaction between our experiences in watching films and our positions as citizens in a representative democracy...

Americans since the beginning of their history, have constantly made moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through and assessed...

Wheeler uses a fictional place called HandiLand as a yardstick for measuring how far American society has progressed toward social justice and how much remains to be done...

Weber discusses migrant agricultural labor, immigration policy, and the long-term impacts of the labor relations model that developed in South Texas during the early twentieth century...

Dew treats his readers to a riveting and often counterintuitive account of the interaction of law, race, and citizenship in the discourses of the Moorish Science Temple and other movements inspired by Noble Drew Ali...

Nevius tells the interrelated histories of petit marronage, an informal slave's economy, and the construction of internal improvements in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina...

This book is about movement, water, the interchange of ideas, peoples, and cultures. At its centre is the Anglo-Dutch relationship and, at its many peripheries, Scott reveals the transformative effects of this unique republican pulse...

Jones Allen investigates how housing and transport policy have played their role in creating these "Transit Deserts," and what impact race has upon those likely to be affected...

In his latest book, journalist Jay Weiner details the extraordinary life of Professor Hy Berman...

Fontelieu seeks to examine a collection of social and political traumas, both personal and collective...

Sinkoff offers s the first comprehensive biography of Dawidowicz (1915-1990), a pioneer historian in the field that is now called "Holocaust Studies"..

Ellison tells the story of an African-American man who insists on his visibility, agency, and humanity in a country dead-set on not seeing him...

Jenkins engages readers in readers in a ethnography where she spent years observing and interviewing American, international, and osteopathic medical residents in two hospitals...

According to Hennessey and Wittes, the "traditional" presidency is being replaced by the "expressive" presidency.