Mahalia Jackson, the great mid-twentieth century gospel singer, thought of herself as an embodiment of the history of African Americans in the United States...

Ruck addresses the paradox of Samoan accomplishment in American football.

“Free enterprise” is an everyday phrase that connotes an American common sense...

Vigil’s analysis is particularly interesting and informative in how we think about the role of public women in our country, especially in relation to the White House and their unelected roles within the political sphere...

Winne shares there is a synergistic interaction between food and community...

Ostler’s book documents the resilience of Native people, showing how they survived genocide in the face of serious and diverse threats to their existence...

On a spring day in 2015, Dr. Travis Rieder’s life changed. A motorcycle accident, a shattered foot...

"Habeas Corpus in Wartime" is a comprehensive history of the writ of habeas corpus in Anglo-America...

Memory Lands provides a much needed new account of King Philip’s War which centers the Natives of the Northeast,

Environmental racism is visible not only as cancer clusters or the location of grocery stores...

What happened to the Democratic Party after the 1960s?

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

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...

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...

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

Loomis examines the relationship between workers and their environments in this century-long history of timber workers in the Pacific Northwest...

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

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

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

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