There are few better guides to the “long eighteenth century” that J. C. D. Clark...

Baron dives into the history of information and the role that access to information plays in supporting democracy...

In "Burger," Adams offers a history of the hamburger as a cultural object

Seventy years ago, there was no Apple Campus or Googleplex. Silicon Valley itself didn’t even exist!

Afghanistan and the United States have a complicated relationship. And poppies have often been at the center of the problem between the two countries...

O'Brassill-Kulfan focuses on the control over poor migrants’ mobility and how their movement shaped ideas of class, race, and status in the United States...

Kroik explores the relationship between work and gender in American culture...

When hate groups descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, triggering an eruption of racist violence, the tragic conflict reverberated throughout the world...

Kazi's book is a brilliant and powerful meditation on the intersection and interaction of Islamophobia, racism, and U.S. imperial state power...

Ghosh interrogates three arenas of debate over LGBT+ rights in the contemporary American landscape...

This is a big story, told through an ostensibly marginal event: the birth of a class of “merchant clerks” in the United States...

Fire on the Water looks at the history of abolition and slave violence by looking at the representation of shipboard mutiny and insurrection in late 18th and early 19th century literature...

Sidorsky combines qualitative and quantitative research to examine appointed and elected state positions...

The black avenger channeled fresh anxieties about slave uprisings and racial belonging occasioned by European colonization in the Americas...

In 1970s America, politicians began "getting tough" on drugs, crime, and welfare...

Is the era of American hegemony over? Is America finished as a superpower?

From the 1780s, when national land credit policy was established, to the postwar foundations of our current housing finance system, Quinn examines the evolution of securitization and federal credit programs...

Are we in the midst of a psychedelic renaissance?

Rieppel explains how the paleontological discoveries projected American exceptionalism and, at the height of the Gilded Age, became symbols of industrial capitalism....

Quintana examined how enslaved African Americans built the state of South Carolina, in the literal sense of the word...

It is hard to overestimate the influence of John Rawls on political philosophy and theory over the last half-century...

When Americans think of freedom, they often picture the open road. Yet nowhere are we more likely to encounter the long arm of the law than in our cars...

Was secession constitutional?

Focusing on New York City, Ray examines the lived experience, work, memories, and aspirations of immigrants working in the food industry.

Artman tells the story of Kuhlman’s life and, in the process, relates the larger story of charismatic Christianity, particularly how it moved from the fringes of American society to the mainstream...