Mirabal details New York Cuban diasporic history between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with keen attention to how political debates about the potential future, visibility, and belonging in Cuba played out along issues of race and gender...

Gregory D. Smithers effectively articulates the complex history of Native Southerners...

Amanda Littauer traces the origins of the "sexual revolution" of the 1960s...

A shoe molds to the foot and captures a facet of the physical characteristics of its wearer, as well as, by extension, an element of his or her personal history...

They introduce the concept of ‘dueling fact perceptions’ based on years of research, and for our interview, Morgan Marietta explains how they arrived at such conclusions and their implications for our country’s future...

Bailey uses a close reading of the music owned and performed by three prominent women in antebellum Charleston to demonstrate the varied experiences and perspectives of figures who also had much in common...

When Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos first launch Original Plumbing in 2009, they created a magazine the world desperately needed: a creative and celebratory biannual publication about trans men, by trans men...

Lippert explores the significance of the pictorial revolution in one of its vanguard cities: San Francisco, the revolving door of the gold rush...

Wrigley Field is one of a handful of sports stadiums to have transcended its athletic purpose to become a true American landmark...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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