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

Not everyone was convinced by the arguments of patriots during the American revolution...

"Migrant Longing" is a history of migration, courtship, and identity across the U.S.-Mexican border...

Ruck addresses the paradox of Samoan accomplishment in American football.

The story of the creation of the Book of Mormon has been told many times, and often ridiculed...

Mahalia Jackson, the great mid-twentieth century gospel singer, thought of herself as an embodiment of the history of African Americans in the United States...

Colins demonstrates that many more constitutional provisions and practices played a crucial role in the bloody conflict that claimed the lives of over 750,000 Americans...

“Free enterprise” is an everyday phrase that connotes an American common sense...

Vigil’s analysis is particularly interesting and informative in how we think about the role of public women in our country, especially in relation to the White House and their unelected roles within the political sphere...

Winne shares there is a synergistic interaction between food and community...

On a spring day in 2015, Dr. Travis Rieder’s life changed. A motorcycle accident, a shattered foot...

Ostler’s book documents the resilience of Native people, showing how they survived genocide in the face of serious and diverse threats to their existence...

"Habeas Corpus in Wartime" is a comprehensive history of the writ of habeas corpus in Anglo-America...

Environmental racism is visible not only as cancer clusters or the location of grocery stores...

Memory Lands provides a much needed new account of King Philip’s War which centers the Natives of the Northeast,

The New Deal left a host of political, institutional, and economic legacies...

Hendrik Hartog uses a forgotten 1840 case to explore the regime of gradual emancipation that took place in New Jersey over the first half of the nineteenth century...

Crow studies how Jefferson’s association with legal history was born out of America’s long history as part of an early modern empire and the political thought which preceded him...

What happened to the Democratic Party after the 1960s?

DiGirolamo looks at the legion of children and teenagers who sold newspapers on city streets, moving trains, and even Civil War battlefields in the 19th and early 20th centuries...

Levin investigates the claims that numerous African Americans willingly fought for the Confederacy....

From Moscow, the world looks different...

A popular myth in the American nationalist imaginary is that the country has been on a continued path of progress...

Doddington demonstrates the significance of internal divisions, comparison, and conflict in shaping gender and status in slave communities of the American South...

Loomis examines the relationship between workers and their environments in this century-long history of timber workers in the Pacific Northwest...