Art Spiegelman's Maus is the story of an American cartoonist's efforts to uncover and record his father's story of survival of the Holocaust...

Grass’s aim is nothing less than to demythologize the American Midwest.

Burns pulls together distinct threads in analyzing the theoretical framing of presidential power in the American constitutional system and then tracing that power through forty-five presidents...

Nugent provides a detailed analysis of each Western state’s modern political history...

Wolff traces how Wilson's emerging definition of national self-determination and his practical application of the principle changed over time as negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference unfolded...

Gaddis aims to spark a progressive movement that will transform food in American schools, and with it the lives of thousands of low-paid cafeteria workers and the millions of children they feed...

Should we understand the rise of Trump or the success of Brexit in terms of populism? Culture? Xenophobia? Do the same political forces produce Sanders and Trump?

Nystrom argues that the discourse about New Orleans has been narrowed to a single story and controlled by something vaguely defined as “Creole” which has “long robbed the city of the potential for a richer cultural self-image.”

Though the story of emancipation is well known in American history, the roles of many of the key figures involved in it are often overlooked. Among them is James Mitchell Ashley...

From humble beginnings as the son of immigrant parents growing up in Brooklyn, Holzman paved a path of excellence at every level...

While armies have seized enemy records and rare texts as booty throughout history, it was only during World War II that an unlikely band of librarians, archivists, and scholars traveled abroad to collect books and documents to aid the military cause...

Povitz demonstrates how grassroots activism continued to thrive, even as it was transformed by unrelenting erosion of the country's already fragile social safety net...

Engstrom analyzes the various ways the series presented feminism as a positive force, such as the satirical portrayal of patriarchy...

Christian imagery, symbols, and motifs have long been used and incorporated in fashion.,,

Ryan offers the first sustained historical examination of the secondary fronts in the war on terror...

Rechtenwald argues that Big Digital technologies and their principals represent not only economic powerhouses but also new forms of governmental power...

Griffen Spears discusses the decades long struggle for environmental and civil rights justice in Anniston, Alabama...

Since the 1940s, America’s relations with the rest of the world have been guided by the idea of promoting the free flow of information...

Hodges emphasizes the history of slavery, religion, the rise of the Black middle class, and the quest for social equality through the Jim Crow era...

Twarog examines how working- and middle-class American housewives used their identity as housewives to protest the high cost of food. In doing so, housewives' relationships with the state evolved over the course of the century...

Dark's essays take on self-improvement, self-acceptance, sexual attraction, language, aging, queer visibility, fashion, family, femininity, feminism, yoga culture, airplane seats, and the vilifying of fatness in the name of good health, among other compelling topics...

"It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.”

How does the world of book reviews work?

What does the future hold for the Midwest?

Skinner constructs a comprehensive understanding of the politics of defining medical necessity...