The 1949-50 CCNY Beavers basketball team were one of the unlikeliest of champions in sports history...

Huffard offers a fascinating history of capitalism in the South, which tells the story of how railroads revitalized the region following the Civil War...

Kahlil Gibran’s 1923 The Prophet is book that’s changed people’s lives...

In the late nineteenth century, a small group of Cubans and Puerto Ricans of African descent settled in the segregated tenements of New York City...

In the books, SpearIt brings the subject of incarcerated Muslims into focus...

Catherine Newell talks about the religious roots of the final frontier, focusing on the collaboration of artist Chesley Bonestell, science writer Willy Ley, and the NASA rocket engineer Wernher von Braun...

Remes challenges prevailing assumptions about how ordinary people, governments, and institutions act in the wake of natural disasters...

Boyles provides vivid ethnographic work and in-depth interviews from the Ferguson protests...

Stewart examines the history behind the collection of more than 2,300 narratives from formerly enslaved people, as part of the New Deal’s Federal Writers’ Project...

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

Downs argues that we can see the Civil War anew by understanding it as a revolution...

Phillips crafts a compelling narrative sure to delight baseball fans and historians of the human sciences alike...

In April 2014, a cohort of twenty-five hip hop artists assembled in Washington, D.C. for the first orientation meeting of a new cultural diplomacy program sponsored by the United States State Department,,,

Smith shows that from his upbringing in Houston’s Fifth Ward to his role as a spokesman for the Foreman Grill, Foreman always fought to redefine himself along with the times...

Jackson argues that a new type of news consumption leads to feelings of anger and helplessness...

Holt explores how Americans read, saw, and understood the federal structure of the country in its early years...

In the mid-twentieth century, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) returned to Nauvoo, Illinois, home to the thriving religious community led by Joseph Smith before his murder in 1844...

The profound forces of all-American nativism have, in fact, been pushing politics so far to the right over the last forty years that, for many people,..

Petty discusses the black and white farmers in the South who were part of the "small farming class," and their evolving strategies for holding onto their land through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...

Neil Maher talks about the social forces that shaped NASA in the 1960s and 70s, connecting the space race with the radical upheavals of the counterculture...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, when asked at a press conference about the roots of his political philosophy, responded simply, “I am a Christian and a Democrat.”

Wray’s book goes in search of an America shaped by government, plans and bureaucrats, not by businesses, bankers and shareholders. He demonstrates that government plans did not damage American wealth. On the contrary, they built it, and in the most profound ways...

DeLay traces five zones of White Evangelical opposition: future, knowledge, sexuality, reality, and society...

What standard should be used to assess presidential misconduct during the Trump presidency?