A combination of Charles Kuralt and Lawrence Ritter, Balukjian’s work examines 14 baseball players pulled from a pack of 1986 Topps baseball cards...

This is a map that proclaims empire: from the prominent royal arms, to the ships riding at anchor out in what is labelled the ‘North Sea’...

Huffard offers a fascinating history of capitalism in the South, which tells the story of how railroads revitalized the region following the Civil War...

The 1949-50 CCNY Beavers basketball team were one of the unlikeliest of champions in sports history...

It seems unthinkable that citizens of one of the most powerful nations in the world must risk their lives and livelihoods in the search for access to necessary health care...

Bobelian reminds us of the intense political battle over Lyndon Johnson’s legacy nomination of then-associate justice Abe Fortas to the chief justiceship.,,

Kahlil Gibran’s 1923 The Prophet is book that’s changed people’s lives...

In the late nineteenth century, a small group of Cubans and Puerto Ricans of African descent settled in the segregated tenements of New York City...

Catherine Newell talks about the religious roots of the final frontier, focusing on the collaboration of artist Chesley Bonestell, science writer Willy Ley, and the NASA rocket engineer Wernher von Braun...

Remes challenges prevailing assumptions about how ordinary people, governments, and institutions act in the wake of natural disasters...

In the books, SpearIt brings the subject of incarcerated Muslims into focus...

Stewart examines the history behind the collection of more than 2,300 narratives from formerly enslaved people, as part of the New Deal’s Federal Writers’ Project...

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

Boyles provides vivid ethnographic work and in-depth interviews from the Ferguson protests...

Phillips crafts a compelling narrative sure to delight baseball fans and historians of the human sciences alike...

Downs argues that we can see the Civil War anew by understanding it as a revolution...

Smith shows that from his upbringing in Houston’s Fifth Ward to his role as a spokesman for the Foreman Grill, Foreman always fought to redefine himself along with the times...

In April 2014, a cohort of twenty-five hip hop artists assembled in Washington, D.C. for the first orientation meeting of a new cultural diplomacy program sponsored by the United States State Department,,,

In the mid-twentieth century, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) returned to Nauvoo, Illinois, home to the thriving religious community led by Joseph Smith before his murder in 1844...

Jackson argues that a new type of news consumption leads to feelings of anger and helplessness...

The profound forces of all-American nativism have, in fact, been pushing politics so far to the right over the last forty years that, for many people,..

Holt explores how Americans read, saw, and understood the federal structure of the country in its early years...

Neil Maher talks about the social forces that shaped NASA in the 1960s and 70s, connecting the space race with the radical upheavals of the counterculture...

Petty discusses the black and white farmers in the South who were part of the "small farming class," and their evolving strategies for holding onto their land through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...