Twitty looks at numerous freedom suits filed in the St. Louis circuit court in order to examine the legal history of slavery and freedom...

When the British explored the Atlantic coast of America in the 1580s, their relations with indigenous peoples were structured by food...

Pardew describes the role of the U.S. involvement in ending the wars and genocide in the Balkans...

"Rethinking Rufus" is the first book-length study of sexual violence against enslaved men...

Small is beautiful, right? Isn't that what we've all been taught?

When we imagine Anna Freud, how does she appear to us?

Welch explores the history of free and enslaved black Americans use of local courts in the Cotton South...

Borchard calls for a better understanding of journalism's past, at a time of acute concern about its future...

Elaine Hampton tell the story of how a Mexican American community in El Paso have fought back against environmental injustice...

The editors have formulated a landmark anthology illustrating Chicana feminism and activism that spread in the Southwest, Midwest, and Pacific Northwest during the Chicana/o movement era...

Powers explores the rich and, at times, unexpected intersections of love, sex, race, gender, sexuality, and American popular music...

Bourbon whiskey has been around since nearly the beginning of the United States...

jayy dodd offers her own brilliant reflections on so many things: the contemporary moment, dystopia, her transition, and more...

Watt precisely narrates a rich case study of the sweeping lands and waters surrounding Point Reyes, an hour north of San Francisco in Marin County,..

During the civil rights era, Memphis gained a reputation for having one of the South’s strongest NAACP branches...

Katie Batza demonstrates in this path-breaking book, there was already a well-developed network of gay-health clinics in American cities when the epidemic struck, and these clinics served as the first responders to the disease...

Keyser explores the ways that modern fiction writers responded to the theories and anxieties about race in the early twentieth century through related anxieties about modern industrial food...

There is no denying that the public remains fascinated with monarchy...

Over the past forty years, U.S. prisons and jails have used various psychotropic drugs...

Allison Davis (1902-1983) was a pioneering anthropologist who did ground-breaking fieldwork in the Jim Crow south,  challenged the racial bias of IQ tests, and became the first African American to be tenured at the University of Chicago...

Stein shows how a diverse set of influential journalists, judges, and scholars translated the Court's language about marital and reproductive rights into bold statements about sexual freedom and equality...

In the late ’90s and early 2000s, the Portland Trail Blazers were one of the hottest teams in the NBA...

The increasing presence of interracial relationships is often read as an antidote to racism or as an indicator of the decreasing significance of race...

Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce—the book trade and the slave trade...

Kim explores questions of loss, memory, and redress in post WWII Asian diasporic decolonial politics...