Milam talks about the scientific search for human nature, a project that captured the attention of paleontologists, anthropologists, and primatologists in the years after World War II...

Bennett discusses the development and demise of family tobacco farms, tobacco farming culture, and the New Deal's Federal Tobacco Program...

For a book to exist, there must be a lot more than a writer...

Lake Superior has experienced substantial environmental change—including today’s impressive but incomplete ecological recovery—in its existence, especially over the last 150 year...

Sidman offers a systematic explanation for how political polarization relates to the electoral influence of federal spending...

An expert witness in four legal challenges, Brown scrutinized unpublished trial records, informant interviews, and legal precedents, as well as insider documents, some revealing promoters of “Vedic victory” or “stealth Buddhism” for public-school children...

Sarna chronicles the 350-year history of the Jewish religion in America...

Mauriello attempts to recreate the emotional and traumatic reactions these men had when confronted with the worst of Nazi Germany...

Alexander frames the book with the theoretical conundrum of representation...

Threatening Property examines the campaigns for residential segregation in early-20th century North Carolina...

Skidmore weaves in a vibrant discussion on how trans men created community and crafted their lives in rural America at the turn of the twentieth century...

Reese examines the ways in which residents of the Deanwood neighborhood navigate the surrounding area to acquire food...

Frantzman spent months traveling throughout the Middle East to get a first-hand view of the region, its people and politics in war’s aftermath...

How have memes changed politics?

In the summer of 1928, William Alexander Scott began a small four-page weekly with the help of his brother Cornelius...

Heerman examines how slavery and emancipation developed in the Illinois Country from the 18th Century through the 19th Century...

The history of black food traditions can be most accurately conceptualized as a web of ongoing conversations, debates, and reinventions...

Household Gods is a family biography that explores the Christian republicanism of John and Abigail Adams...

The authors argue that there are dimensions to the broadening of the US federal government into new areas of public life largely overlooked by previous scholars...

With around two million children currently enrolled in home schools in the USA, no-one can doubt that the subject of Milton Gaither’s new book is timely...

Laderman exposes the way that imperial ambitions suffused the ideas and practices of turn-of-century humanitarian intervention...

Not everyone was convinced by the arguments of patriots during the American revolution...

"Migrant Longing" is a history of migration, courtship, and identity across the U.S.-Mexican border...

Colins demonstrates that many more constitutional provisions and practices played a crucial role in the bloody conflict that claimed the lives of over 750,000 Americans...

The story of the creation of the Book of Mormon has been told many times, and often ridiculed...