Alou started playing organized baseball late in life (early teens), endured poverty and hardship in his native Dominican Republic, and then helped to break down barriers of language and perception throughout his long career on the field and in the dugout...

When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged...

Theobald delivers a long-overdue, comprehensive history of Native women’s reproductive health, rights, and practices...

To this generation that includes writers as disparate as Gary Shteyngart and Irina Reyn comes Olga Zilberbourg...

Hämäläinen provides a comprehensive history of Lakota migration, expansion, resistance, survival, and resilience...

Haberland discusses the dynamics of gender, class, race and globalization in the southern apparel industry from the 1930s to today...

Offner shows how strategies such as self-help housing, for-profit privatized state-functions, and austere social programs were well-trodded decades earlier in the mid-century “mixed economy"...

With a name associated with the famous university in Palo Alto, Leland Stanford is among the best-known of the famous “robber barons” of the 19th century...

What are the true sources of inequality?

Using a wealth of memoirs and recently declassified secret police files, Plokhy captures the intimate detail of a culture clash that chilled relations before Nazism was even defeated...

Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination...

Lucy Kilgore has her bags packed for her escape from her rural Tennessee upbringing...

Romano and Curry examine whether judges tailor their language in order to avoid retribution during their retention elections...

The word “ghetto” has taken on different meanings since its coinage in the 16th century...

"Vietnam’s American War" is an iconoclastic revision of the history of the war...

The First Amendment and a strong Fourth Estate are essential to a healthy democracy...

Gonaver discusses the Eastern Lunatic Asylum in Virginia, and the roles that race, the institution of slavery, and slave labor played in the development of psychiatric diagnosis and care through the nineteenth century and beyond...

Tell analyses acts of remembering Emmett following his brutal murder in the 1960s until the present day...

Frederic Tudor was the “Ice King” of early nineteenth-century America..

"American Resistance" follows activists from the streets back to their congressional districts around the country...

Why don’t governments do more to prevent genocide?

Franks asks whether our country's faith and belief in the Constitution amounts to something like a cult,..

The history of anthropology remembers James Teit as a field assistant and man-on-the spot for Franz Boas...

What is the future of the museum?

"Integration Now" explores how studying the case Alexander v. Holmes (1969) enhances understandings of the history underlying school desegregation...