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...

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

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

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...

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...

Dufton visits the podcast to talk about the ups and downs and highs and lows of cannabis in the United State...

Newman analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives...

Lena charts the history of American arts and cultural policy, interrogating the institutions, practices, and technologies underpinning the development of American Art...

In American While Black, Carter argues that immigration, both historically and in the contemporary moment,

The editors bring together a diverse collective of Women of Color Mother-Scholars to end the silence experienced by Mothers of Color in academia....

Hoffnung-Garskof seamlessly ties together various scholarly subfields into a truly transnational history of anticolonial politics and the Afro-Latino diaspora in the United States...

Krutzsch argues that gay activists memorialized people like Shepard as part of a political strategy to present gays as similar to the country's dominant class of white, straight Christians...

Thompson examines the Melville's magazine work in its original publication...

Long before the rise of New World slavery, West Africans were adept swimmers, divers, canoe makers, and canoeists...

Wrobel describes a sixty year period of remarkable change for the vast region...

Adelman argues that printers—artisans who mingled with the elite but labored in a manual trade—used their commercial and political connections to directly shape Revolutionary political ideology and mass mobilization...

Banks explores the rise of the African American museum and its patrons and philanthropists...

Balto argues that local police department policies and procedures left black Chicagoans “overpoliced and underprotected” far before mass incarceration began...

Initiated in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, have the reforms of the US intelligence enterprise served their purpose?

Scholars of US history have treated trade policy in less than enthusiastic ways...

Reflecting on his fifty-year effort to steer the Grand Old Party toward black voters, Memphis power broker George W. Lee declared, "Somebody had to stay in the Republican Party and fight."