Hild and Merritt discuss the nexus of race, class and power in the history of labor in the South, and how a new generation of southern labor scholars are changing our understanding of labor's past, present and future in the region...

American colleges and universities boasts an impressive legacy, but the price of admission for many is now endless debt....

Handley-Cousins shows how disability was a necessary by-product of the U.S. Civil War...

The next evolution in improving homeland security is to analyze and evaluate various theories of bureaucratic change against the national-level catastrophic threats,,,

Earl Campbell was a force in American football...

Braun documents the history and present-day use of an everyday medical instrument, the spirometer, which measures a person’s lung capacity...

Inspired by brave fugitives who escaped slavery and the cultural craze that was "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," the North rose up to battle slavery, ultimately waging the bloody Civil War.

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

The decades following the end of World War II witnessed the establishment of a large and diverse German-American scholarly community studying modern German history...

Driscoll charts the development of the writer’s ethnocentric attitudes about Indians and savagery in relation to the various geographic and social milieus of communities he inhabited at key periods in his life...

It may only be a slight exaggeration to say that one of David Dillon's career accomplishments was to put the words "Dallas" and "architecture" in the same sentence again...

Hahamovitch discusses her research connecting the global histories of 19th-century indentured servants and today's guestworkers...

Taaffe describes the roles Washington's commanders played and their contributions to the war effort...

If we want children from poor families and communities to succeed in school, then we must pay attention to more than merely what happens in school..

When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged...

Alou started playing organized baseball late in life (early teens), endured poverty and hardship in his native Dominican Republic, and then helped to break down barriers of language and perception throughout his long career on the field and in the dugout...

Theobald delivers a long-overdue, comprehensive history of Native women’s reproductive health, rights, and practices...

To this generation that includes writers as disparate as Gary Shteyngart and Irina Reyn comes Olga Zilberbourg...

Offner shows how strategies such as self-help housing, for-profit privatized state-functions, and austere social programs were well-trodded decades earlier in the mid-century “mixed economy"...

Haberland discusses the dynamics of gender, class, race and globalization in the southern apparel industry from the 1930s to today...

Hämäläinen provides a comprehensive history of Lakota migration, expansion, resistance, survival, and resilience...

With a name associated with the famous university in Palo Alto, Leland Stanford is among the best-known of the famous “robber barons” of the 19th century...

Using a wealth of memoirs and recently declassified secret police files, Plokhy captures the intimate detail of a culture clash that chilled relations before Nazism was even defeated...

What are the true sources of inequality?

Lucy Kilgore has her bags packed for her escape from her rural Tennessee upbringing...