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

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...

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

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

The history of black food traditions can be most accurately conceptualized as a web of ongoing conversations, debates, and reinventions...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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,

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

What happened to the Democratic Party after the 1960s?