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...

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...

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...

What did the American Civil War look like from Diné Bikéyah and Apacheria?

Ambar has written a masterful examination and analysis of American political thought in this new book which does, in fact, reconsider our thinking about this particular branch of political theory...

The disappearance of the Franklin Expedition in 1845 turned the Arctic into an object of fascination...

Kirshner tells the story of the people of Detroit before, during, and after its bankruptcy, offering lessons about urban governance, post-industrial economics, development, and the usefulness of bankruptcy itself as a tool to aid U.S. cities...

On March 16th, 1968, several units of American soldiers descended upon a collection of small villages in Central Vietnam, now collectively known as My Lai. In the space of a few short hours, they committed one of America’s most infamous war crimes...

Roberts talks about intersections of race, identity, and memory in the South in a wide-ranging discussion that starts in the segregated beauty parlors of the Jim Crow era...

"Beyond the Rapists" asks how and to what end scholars of communication and the public at large might look “beyond the rapist”--beyond the individuals who perpetuate violence and toward the organizations through whom violence is authorized and distributed