How has the expansion of the Black American middle class and the increase in the number of Black immigrants among them since the Civil Rights period transformed the cultural landscape of New York City?

Amy Shira Teitel talks about Apollo and the community of people who are deeply attached to space history.

Simon discusses the tragic consequences of the ethos of "cheap" for workers, communities, and the nation...

Rolsky makes the case for understanding Norman Lear as a key protagonist in the culture wars of the late 20th century...

Suitts examines the parallels between de facto segregationist practices and the modern school choice movement...

Pomson and Schnoor examine the impact of the family on Jewish identity.

Musicologists have long tried to understand how cosmopolitanism and nationalism affected classical music...

Miller explains in great detail how Grant ultimately succeeded in taking the city and turning the tide of the war in favor of the Union...

Dockworker Power is a refreshing mixture of two methodological approaches that situates the study of black internationalism among workers...

Michel examines the complicated relationship between the United States and Rhodesia...

Young provides a lyrical exploration of cultural encounters in the Pacific Northwest...

Larsen examines the American mythology of race, and its real-world effects,..

Lomazoff has written a kind of detective novel about the national bank controversy during the early years of the new republic

Drutman dives into both the problems with the current political dynamic and the possible solutions...

Day explores how the historical alignment of Asian bodies and labor with capital's abstract and negative dimensions became one of settler colonialism's foundational and defining features....

How do Muslim Americans respond to domestic violence?

Lewis documents the forging of Garvey’s remarkable vision of pan-Africanism and highlights his organizational skills in framing a response to the radical global popular upsurge following the First World War (1914–1918)...

In the United States, the number of megachurches increased from 350 in 1990 to over 1,600 in 2011 with that number continuing to grow exponentially in subsequent years...

Sandoval-Strausz ties together a magnificent story of Latinos migrating to Chicago and Dallas, and the positive effect immigration and cultural heritage has on urban America...

From talking heads on cable news to hot takes online, there seems to be more opinion than ever in journalism these days...

Gilles recovers the history of women’s cycle racing in the 1890s...

Less and less Christian demographically, America is now home to an ever-larger number of people who say they identify with no religion at all...

Thoreau, set out for a simpler, more mindful, and more deeply lived life on Walden Pond on July 4th, 1845...

García traces Olivares’ humble beginnings as a poor boy growing up in San Antonio’s west side barrio to his improbable rise as the “Gucci priest” of the Claretian order...