Focusing on New York City, Ray examines the lived experience, work, memories, and aspirations of immigrants working in the food industry.

Was secession constitutional?

Artman tells the story of Kuhlman’s life and, in the process, relates the larger story of charismatic Christianity, particularly how it moved from the fringes of American society to the mainstream...

Howard Philips Smith has been investigating and writing about the gay history of New Orleans for over two decades...

Gonzalez strategies transborder activists used to redeem la raza from body politic exclusion happening in the U.S....

Using many examples of Hollywood movies, Resnick analyzes the way movies perform in a variety of formal and informal educational settings...

Martinez argues that the rampant violence inflicted by Anglos against Mexican and Latinx people in Texas in the early twentieth century left a long legacy which reverberates into the twenty first century...

Lowe follows the criminal case against John Crane, a member of a prominent Virginian family, for the murder of a harvest worker employed by a neighbor...

Does a person’s well-being go well beyond how much money they have in their bank account?

McCarty synthesizes what scholars know and don't know about the origins, development, and implications of rising political conflicts in the United States...

How do women -- especially poor and low-income women with histories of childhood sexual trauma and drug addiction -- respond to and deal with an HIV/AIDS diagnosis?

"Almost Citizens" recounts the story of how Puerto Rico came to be part of the United States empire at the turn of the 20th Century...

Mary McLeod Bethune was often called the "First Lady of Negro America," but she made significant contributions to the political climate of Florida as well...

Clark-Pujara draws on the documents of the state, the business, organizational, and personal records of their enslavers, and the few first-hand accounts left by enslaved and free black Rhode Islanders to reconstruct their lived experiences...

The past decade has seen a tremendous production of scholarship on American missionary endeavors in the Middle East...

The carrier task force—the symbolic and physical manifestation of the United States’ ability to project naval and air power across the globe—came of age during the Second World War...

The secession of Texas from Mexico was a dry run for the slaveholder’s republic of the Confederate States of America, argues Andrew Torget...

Jones examines the evolution of race relations in the face of rapid demographic change as Mexican immigrants move into the traditionally biracial American South...

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...

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

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

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

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