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...

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?

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...

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...

García evaluates how the end of the Cold War brought new and unanticipated challenges to upholding this commitment from 1989 to the present...

Vinsel argues that automobiles have been shaped by government regulation through and through...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

The authors offer a timely and wise analysis of globalization and how it has fundamentally transformed governance....

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...

Dorrell covers approaches, strategies, and topics important for the study of Islam today...

These essays trace important developments in performance art both in the Los Angeles and New York scenes, discuss artists including Laurie Anderson, Spalding Gray, Meredith Monk, and Lin Hixson...

Domby has written a rigorous analysis of American political memory as it connects to the Civil War and long shadow of the Confederacy,,,

From moral panics about immigration and gun control to anxiety about terrorism and natural disasters, Americans live in a culture of fear...

Elmer's anthology provides access into a world of religious practice that is otherwise lost – many puritans refusing on principle to put their prayers to paper...

The authors present Agnew as a progenitor of the conservative populism associated today with America’s 45th president...

In 1831, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites, mostly women and children. After more than two months in hiding, Turner was captured, and quickly convicted and executed...

Dhingra offers up-close evaluation of the competitive nature of the United States education system and the extra-curricular and co-curricular activities associated with them...