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...

Young reframes the Cristero war as a transnational conflict...

Oropeza sheds new light on one of Chicano history’s most notorious figures...

Duina asks why impoverished Americans espouse such great and abiding love for their country even as they suffer and struggle to get by...

Think economics is the "dismal science" with abstract formulas that have no impact on life as it is actually lived? Think again...

Larry Diamond joins us this week to talk about the threat China’s model of authoritarian capitalism...

Baker focuses his gaze on the rural counties that underwent significant social, cultural, political, and environmental change as southern cities expanded after World War II...

Intriguingly, White shows that the white public's racial policy opinions largely DID NOT liberalize during the war against Nazi Germany

Cox discusses what one murder case in 1930s Mississippi reveals about race relations, criminal justice, and life in the Jim Crow South...

In "We Average Unbeautiful Watchers," Cohan investigates “the behavior of American sports fans to understand (its) cultural relevance beyond mere consumerism.”

Olson talks about why the idea of outer space as a “frontier” is giving way to one that frames it as a cosmic ecosystem...

We discuss why Midwesterners are diffident about their history, and why they both hope that Warren Buffet is listening to this podcast...

Roberts anchors 20 biographical chapters to a decadal series of events, whose mathematical significance could not often have been anticipated...

Thomas challenges the commonsensical notion that the Japanese empire granted its subjects no religious freedom...

What makes a good missionary makes a good spy...

Saguisag addresses a gap in scholarship, examining the ways childhood was depicted and theorized in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century comic strips...

"Stolen" tells the true story of how five young Black boys were kidnapped from Philadelphia in 1825...

Over fifty years ago, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) scolded the agricultural industry for its profligate spread of “poison” and pesticides “indiscriminately from the skies"...

Bunyasi and Smith compile social science research and data to explain the current situation for white citizens, African-American citizens, Latinx citizens, and citizens of other races in the United States...

Neoliberalism is one of those fuzzy words that can mean something different to everyone...

Richert investigates the myths, meanings, and boundaries of recreational drugs, palliative care drugs, and pharmaceuticals, as well as struggles over product innovation, consumer protection, and freedom of choice in the medical marketplace...

Zafar discusses the earliest formally-published African-American-authored hospitality books from the 1820s to Edna Lewis’s Taste of Country Cooking from the 1970s...

Hitt demonstrates that over time, institutional changes have substantially reduced unreasoned judgments in the Court’s output,..

This is a conversation about a Philadelphian and his store, told by guest Nicole C. Kirk...

This groundbreaking study of the post-surrender occupation makes clear that its purpose was to crush slavery and to create meaningful civil and political rights for freed people in the face of rebels’ bold resistance...