Musselwhite challenges the conventional view of the Chesapeake as a rural society of tobacco and slavery that prevented the development of towns and cities...

Vidal offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of the French colonists who established racial slavery in New Orleans...

In a 2001 poll, Turks ranked the United States highest when asked: "Which country is Turkey's best friend in international relations?"

Aftershocks of Disaster offers poetry, theater, discussions about technology, photography, and other mediums as ways through which to produce and access knowledge about the multiple disasters before and after Hurricane María...

Bennett discusses the development and demise of family tobacco farms, tobacco farming culture, and the New Deal's Federal Tobacco Program...

O'Rourke brings together Ford’s major professional writings and speeches for the first time.,,

For a book to exist, there must be a lot more than a writer...

Milam talks about the scientific search for human nature, a project that captured the attention of paleontologists, anthropologists, and primatologists in the years after World War II...

Lake Superior has experienced substantial environmental change—including today’s impressive but incomplete ecological recovery—in its existence, especially over the last 150 year...

Sidman offers a systematic explanation for how political polarization relates to the electoral influence of federal spending...

An expert witness in four legal challenges, Brown scrutinized unpublished trial records, informant interviews, and legal precedents, as well as insider documents, some revealing promoters of “Vedic victory” or “stealth Buddhism” for public-school children...

Alexander frames the book with the theoretical conundrum of representation...

Mauriello attempts to recreate the emotional and traumatic reactions these men had when confronted with the worst of Nazi Germany...

Sarna chronicles the 350-year history of the Jewish religion in America...

Threatening Property examines the campaigns for residential segregation in early-20th century North Carolina...

Reese examines the ways in which residents of the Deanwood neighborhood navigate the surrounding area to acquire food...

Skidmore weaves in a vibrant discussion on how trans men created community and crafted their lives in rural America at the turn of the twentieth century...

How have memes changed politics?

Frantzman spent months traveling throughout the Middle East to get a first-hand view of the region, its people and politics in war’s aftermath...

In the summer of 1928, William Alexander Scott began a small four-page weekly with the help of his brother Cornelius...

Heerman examines how slavery and emancipation developed in the Illinois Country from the 18th Century through the 19th Century...

With around two million children currently enrolled in home schools in the USA, no-one can doubt that the subject of Milton Gaither’s new book is timely...

Household Gods is a family biography that explores the Christian republicanism of John and Abigail Adams...

The authors argue that there are dimensions to the broadening of the US federal government into new areas of public life largely overlooked by previous scholars...

Laderman exposes the way that imperial ambitions suffused the ideas and practices of turn-of-century humanitarian intervention...