wift argues that the left is dominated by what he terms hobbyists and performative radicals...

Jain offers a concise history of Hindus and Jains in the Americas over the last two centuries..

Written from the perspective of the district 17 (CPUSA) Reds who worked primarily in Alabama, the book acquaints a new generation with the impact of the Great Depression on postwar black and white, young and old, urban and rural Americans.

Block painstakingly recovers the origins of baseball games through a close reading of a wide variety of 18th-century sources including newspaper clippings, novels, and diaries...

Marinari examines how, from 1882 to 1965, Italian and Jewish reformers profoundly influenced the country’s immigration policy as they mobilized against the immigration laws that marked them as undesirable...

In early 2019, freshman representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Senator Ed Markey proposed a bold new piece of legislation, now very well known as the Green New Deal.,,

America’s most famous hymn was created in very unusual circumstances...

Abelson and I discuss the various types of masculinity she identified in her study, such as hypermasculine men, regular guys, and men who seek to embody what Abelson calls “Golidlocks masculinity.”

Blumenthal excavates the real, connected story behind the rise of Donald Trump, international jihad, Western ultra-nationalism and the many extremist forces that threaten peace across the globe: American imperialism...

In Hinkie's view, the best way to reach first was to embrace becoming the worst -- to sacrifice wins in the present in order to capture championships in the future. And to those dubious, Hinkie had a response: Trust The Process, and the results will follow...

During his twelve years in Ann Arbor, Beilein became the program's all-time winningest coach, reached two national championship games, won four Big Ten championships and produced eight NBA first-round draft picks...

Picken and Dischinger argue in the introduction that the relationship between the US South and alcohol has been overdetermined in popular imagination...

McKercher offers a strong rebuttal to the Canadian-history-is-boring thesis...

Franke’s ambitious new book challenges Americans to face our collective responsibility for ongoing racial inequality...

García makes a substantial contribution to the history of segregation in the US by examining its implementation and preservation in the city of Oxnard, California from 1903 to 1974...

Barnett describes how to redesign megaregional growth using mostly private investment,..

Lupick explains the concept of harm reduction as a crucial component of a city’s response to the drug crisis. It tells the story of a grassroots group of addicts in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside who waged a political street fight for two decades to transform how the city treats its most marginalized citizens...

The Trail of Tears, during which the United States violently expelled thousands of Indigenous peoples from their ancestral homelands in the southeast, was anything but inevitable...

White and Laird explore the political behavior of African American voters in the United States...

Brown expands our understanding of the relationship between European, African, and American history, as it speaks to our understanding of wars of terror today....

Of the many thousands who participated in the American and French revolutions in the late 18th century, only a handful played roles in both events...

"Sexual Citizens" is based on years of research interviewing and observing college life—with students of different races, genders, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic backgrounds...

Windham discusses why the 1970s should be seen as more than a moment of decline for the U.S. labor movement...

Whooley’s book is no anti-psychiatric screed; instead, he reveals a field that has muddled through periodic reinventions and conflicting agendas of curiosity, compassion, and professional striving.

Forret explores the career of prominent slave trader William H. Williams, whose operation was based in Washington DC...