This book is a sweeping transatlantic history of Puritanism from its emergence out of the religious tumult of Elizabethan England to its founding role in the story of America...

We know from this book that anger is animating politics, but the ways that anger is expressed and translated into political participation, varies greatly by race, gender, and age...

There is a growing mismatch between the culture of many campuses, and the challenges young people will face in their careers, politics and personal live...

Long-term solitary confinement meets the legal definition of torture, and yet solitary confinement is used in every state in the United States...

Westermeyer explores the once-powerful Tea Party Movement and the changing nature of political culture in the contemporary United States...

White surveys the many developments in American law from the middle of the 20th century to the case of Bush v. Gore...

What happens when a religion is demonized to such an extent that it is no longer deemed a religion – but an ideology?

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...

Jewell discusses the evolution of political and economic conservatism in the twentieth-century South...

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

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...

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....

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...

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...

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

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

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

What does Friends mean to us now?

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

"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,..

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?

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