Olson talks about why the idea of outer space as a “frontier” is giving way to one that frames it as a cosmic ecosystem...

In "We Average Unbeautiful Watchers," Cohan investigates “the behavior of American sports fans to understand (its) cultural relevance beyond mere consumerism.”

Cox discusses what one murder case in 1930s Mississippi reveals about race relations, criminal justice, and life in the Jim Crow South...

Baker focuses his gaze on the rural counties that underwent significant social, cultural, political, and environmental change as southern cities expanded after World War II...

Intriguingly, White shows that the white public's racial policy opinions largely DID NOT liberalize during the war against Nazi Germany

Thomas challenges the commonsensical notion that the Japanese empire granted its subjects no religious freedom...

We discuss why Midwesterners are diffident about their history, and why they both hope that Warren Buffet is listening to this podcast...

Roberts anchors 20 biographical chapters to a decadal series of events, whose mathematical significance could not often have been anticipated...

What makes a good missionary makes a good spy...

"Stolen" tells the true story of how five young Black boys were kidnapped from Philadelphia in 1825...

Saguisag addresses a gap in scholarship, examining the ways childhood was depicted and theorized in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century comic strips...

Over fifty years ago, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) scolded the agricultural industry for its profligate spread of “poison” and pesticides “indiscriminately from the skies"...

Neoliberalism is one of those fuzzy words that can mean something different to everyone...

Bunyasi and Smith compile social science research and data to explain the current situation for white citizens, African-American citizens, Latinx citizens, and citizens of other races in the United States...

Richert investigates the myths, meanings, and boundaries of recreational drugs, palliative care drugs, and pharmaceuticals, as well as struggles over product innovation, consumer protection, and freedom of choice in the medical marketplace...

Zafar discusses the earliest formally-published African-American-authored hospitality books from the 1820s to Edna Lewis’s Taste of Country Cooking from the 1970s...

This is a conversation about a Philadelphian and his store, told by guest Nicole C. Kirk...

Hitt demonstrates that over time, institutional changes have substantially reduced unreasoned judgments in the Court’s output,..

"Why Don′t Women Rule the World?" is a comprehensive and useful addition to the established literature on women and politics...

This groundbreaking study of the post-surrender occupation makes clear that its purpose was to crush slavery and to create meaningful civil and political rights for freed people in the face of rebels’ bold resistance...

Vidal offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of the French colonists who established racial slavery in New Orleans...

Musselwhite challenges the conventional view of the Chesapeake as a rural society of tobacco and slavery that prevented the development of towns and cities...

In a 2001 poll, Turks ranked the United States highest when asked: "Which country is Turkey's best friend in international relations?"

Aftershocks of Disaster offers poetry, theater, discussions about technology, photography, and other mediums as ways through which to produce and access knowledge about the multiple disasters before and after Hurricane María...

O'Rourke brings together Ford’s major professional writings and speeches for the first time.,,