Jobs are less secure today not because the market demanded it but because, starting as early as the 1950s, executives, consultants, and policy makers decided to make them that way...

Knott guides the reader through more than 200 years of presidents and the changes that these individuals have brought to the office itself...

The thriving metropolis of Chicago was the land of opportunity for a wide variety of ethnic groups...

Rowley examines the outsized influence that Vladimir Putin, both the man and the myth, have had on US political discourse in the last decade....

Carayon answers the long-standing question of how, and how well, Indigenous Americans and the Europeans who arrived on their shores communicated with each other...

Vaughan offers a new history of the movies from an environmental perspective...

A lot of politicians like to say that there are “two Americas,” but do any of them know what life is really like for the marginalized poor?

Simon compares the political thought of three Creole revolutionary leaders: Alexander Hamilton, Simón Bolívar and Lucas Alamán...

Aronson gives us the life of a women’s rights activist, labor lawyer, radical pacifist, writer and co-founder of what became the Civil Liberties Union...

"Made Modern" explores the complex interconnections between science, technology, and modernity in Canada...

Moses dissects the corpus of Jefferson’s writings and examines the span of his activities...

What does Friends mean to us now?

Ruis narrates the development of school lunch programs from the late 19th century to the present,..

From Pizzagate to Jeffrey Epstein, conspiracies seem to be more prominent than ever in American political discourse...

What happens to families and communities after immigration raids?

"Social Media and the Public Interest" approaches this complex and multi-layered issue from a host of perspectives, leading the reader into the broader discussion through a history of social media,..

Smith discusses the US Navy’s role in exploring and charting the ocean world...

Hild and Merritt discuss the nexus of race, class and power in the history of labor in the South, and how a new generation of southern labor scholars are changing our understanding of labor's past, present and future in the region...

Handley-Cousins shows how disability was a necessary by-product of the U.S. Civil War...

American colleges and universities boasts an impressive legacy, but the price of admission for many is now endless debt....

The next evolution in improving homeland security is to analyze and evaluate various theories of bureaucratic change against the national-level catastrophic threats,,,

Earl Campbell was a force in American football...

Braun documents the history and present-day use of an everyday medical instrument, the spirometer, which measures a person’s lung capacity...

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

Inspired by brave fugitives who escaped slavery and the cultural craze that was "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," the North rose up to battle slavery, ultimately waging the bloody Civil War.