O'Brassill-Kulfan focuses on the control over poor migrants’ mobility and how their movement shaped ideas of class, race, and status in the United States...

Kroik explores the relationship between work and gender in American culture...

When hate groups descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, triggering an eruption of racist violence, the tragic conflict reverberated throughout the world...

Kazi's book is a brilliant and powerful meditation on the intersection and interaction of Islamophobia, racism, and U.S. imperial state power...

Ghosh interrogates three arenas of debate over LGBT+ rights in the contemporary American landscape...

Sidorsky combines qualitative and quantitative research to examine appointed and elected state positions...

Fire on the Water looks at the history of abolition and slave violence by looking at the representation of shipboard mutiny and insurrection in late 18th and early 19th century literature...

This is a big story, told through an ostensibly marginal event: the birth of a class of “merchant clerks” in the United States...

Is the era of American hegemony over? Is America finished as a superpower?

The black avenger channeled fresh anxieties about slave uprisings and racial belonging occasioned by European colonization in the Americas...

In 1970s America, politicians began "getting tough" on drugs, crime, and welfare...

From the 1780s, when national land credit policy was established, to the postwar foundations of our current housing finance system, Quinn examines the evolution of securitization and federal credit programs...

Are we in the midst of a psychedelic renaissance?

Rieppel explains how the paleontological discoveries projected American exceptionalism and, at the height of the Gilded Age, became symbols of industrial capitalism....

Quintana examined how enslaved African Americans built the state of South Carolina, in the literal sense of the word...

When Americans think of freedom, they often picture the open road. Yet nowhere are we more likely to encounter the long arm of the law than in our cars...

It is hard to overestimate the influence of John Rawls on political philosophy and theory over the last half-century...

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

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...

Was secession constitutional?

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

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

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

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...

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...