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...

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...

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...

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,..

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

Gienapp revisits the Founding Era to retell the story of America’s favorite document...

Sheflin takes a closer look at the Dust Bowl’s long-term legacy in the often overlooked Colorado plains that border Kansas and Oklahoma...

Carter reveals that object lessons were a classroom exercise, in wide use during the nineteenth century...

Ford investigates Afros and dashikis, go-go boots and hotpants of the sixties, hip hop's baggy jeans and bamboo earrings, and the #BlackLivesMatter-inspired hoodies of today...

Nearly every consumer today is familiar with the name Levi Strauss thank to the jeans that bear his name...

Red State Revolt explains the emergence and development of the historic wave of teacher strikes in Arizona, West Virginia, and Oklahoma.