In 1956 Albert Gore, Sr. received national attention as one of only three senators from the states of the former Confederacy who refused to sign the infamous “Southern Manifesto” opposing the racial integration of public spaces...

This book is a collective biography of the places that harbored beatniks, blabbermouths, hipsters, playboys, and partisans who altered the shape of postwar liberal politics and culture...

The phytotron was not only at the center of post-war plant science, but also connected to the Cold War, commercial agriculture, and long-duration space flight...

The historian Nick Estes traces two centuries of Indigenous-led resistance and anti-colonial struggle...

Kondo brings together critical race studies, affect theory, psychoanalysis and her critically keen awareness of the politics and potential of theatre production and reception to ask how theatre ‘makes, unmakes and remakes’ race...

Ornamentalism offers arguably the first sustained theory of the yellow woman...

Janzen examines the lives of two religious minority communities in Mexico, Mennonites and Mormons, as seen through Mexican culture...

Karol examines the history of environmental policy within American political parties...

Mayer finds women played a crucial role in the politics of the union...

Think running an insurance company or a bank is hard?  Try doing it as an African-American woman in the Jim Crow South...

Dean examines the cultural history of the idea of the “witness to genocide” in Western Europe and the United States...

Nickliss shows how Hearst came to exercise such power and the ways she uses it to advance the causes in which she believed...

Fahrenthold sheds a timely light on Syrian and Lebanese immigrants who established vibrant diaspora communities in the Americas during the late 19th and early 20th centuries...

Donnelly focuses on the 1985 New York baseball season, a season like no other since the Mets came to town in 1962...

LeBrón examines the rise of and resistance to punitive governance (tough on crime policing policies) in Puerto Rico from the 1990s to the present...

An examination of the lives of foreign policy thinkers can therefore help explain why U.S. foreign policy took particular paths...

Jones talks about the many different groups, from naturalists and conservationists to African American artists and intellectuals, who begin to recast Africa in the America imagination in the early 20th century...

Grainger argues that it was not the Transcendentalists but evangelical revivalists who transformed the everyday religious life of Americans and spiritualized the natural environment..

Rule-making may rarely make headlines, but the significance of this largely hidden process cannot be underestimated...

The modern progressive movement is rising in influence, intensity and numbers. Just where did it come from and where is it going?

Peterson discusses how this self-governing Atlantic trading center began as a refuge from Britain’s Stuart monarchs and how—through its bargain with slavery and ratification of the Constitution—it would tragically lose integrity and autonomy as it became incorporated into the greater United States...

Merriman's book new book explores what he calls uncooperative federalism. He finds a deliberate conservative strategy to use the courts and state executive power to resist federal influence in state affairs...

The television comedies of the 1960s set in the American South epitomize American innocence...

Rather than primarily trace historical events while touching on cultural matters as many of these books do, Bomberger follows the events in jazz and classical music during this crucial year while framing them within America’s entry into World War One....

The two authors, both masters in the field, take on the monumental task of offering a civil-military synthesis of the war against Japan that covers both the home front and the campaigns in exacting detail...