Eidsheim contents that vocal timbre is an even stronger marker for race and gender than physical appearance...

Rosa examines the emergence of linguistic and ethnoracial categories in the context of Latinidad..

Robert S. McNamara confessed: 'We've made mistakes in Vietnam … I've made mistakes. But the mistakes I made are not the ones they say I made'...

When millions of people took to the streets for the 2017 Women’s Marches, there was an unmistakable air of uprising...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

Eileen Boris illuminates the ILO's transformation in the context of the long fight for social justice...

Driskell traces the roots of black protest politics to early 20th century Atlanta and the fight for equal education...

In July 1958, U.S. Marines stormed the beach in Beirut, Lebanon, ready for combat....

Nuevo South explores the history of an ever diversifying U.S. South...

In 1866, a sixteen year old cowboy—the name was literal in his case—named J.M. Daugherty bought 1,000 cattle, hired five cowboys, and headed north for Missouri...

Pietruska assesses how different varieties of forecasting created an often-contradictory “culture of prediction” during the rise of modern bureaucracies...

Buccola uses the iconic debate between Baldwin and Buckley which took place at the Cambridge Union in February 1965 as an entry point into their own lives and their place within the post black freedom struggle...

Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848..

Hajnal finds that race more than class or any other demographic factor shapes not only how Americans vote but also who wins and who loses...

Do immersion trips really transform those who participate and how so?

"Black Freedom" features the work of writers, artists, and activists, as they imagine gender justice through the framework of Wakanda...

Goldman has written a powerfully impressive new book on the long history of the political theology that he describes as “Christian Zionism"...

We say on this show all the time that democracy is hard work. But what does that really mean?

Silverman reveals the complex history surrounding the 1621 feast that every November many Americans associate with silver-buckled Pilgrim costumes, Squanto and Massasoit, and miraculous feats of friendship...

Greta de Jong discusses rural organizing, social justice movements, and the connected histories of the Civil Rights Movement and the War on Poverty in the US South...

Shortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area’s indigenous peoples as slaves...

Kronman contends that this is a failure by faculty and administrators to provide students with the intellectual and moral challenges they need in order become a fully-formed human being...

Dollinger challenges widely held beliefs about the black-Jewish alliance in American politics...

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

Cornell and Leonard focus on the decline of the Founding generation's elitist vision of the Constitution and the rise of a more 'democratic' vision...