Johnson examines the lives and work of four well-known women-evangelical marriage advice author Marabel Morgan, singer and anti-gay-rights activist Anita Bryant, author and political lobbyist Beverly LaHaye, and televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker...

Carpio considers tensions around mobility and settlement in the 19th- and 20th-century American West, especially California’s Inland Empire....

More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life...

Hawley was an active member of several Latter Day Restoration denominations in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Wisconsin, Texas, the Indian Nations of Oklahoma, and Utah Territory from 1838 to 1909...

Stoker argues that America endures endless wars because its leaders no longer know how to think about war in strategic terms...

Earlier histories of the Cold War haven’t exactly been charitable toward the peace activists and pacifists who led peace initiatives...

Annette Joseph-Gabriel talks with Tiffany Gill about the history of African American travel in the late twentieth century and its significance to Black communities across the lines of class and gender...

The book effectively historicizes categories that are often take for granted (sex, race, vice, habit), and shows us not only their temporal contingency, but by inviting the reader to delve into the strangeness of early modern ontologies and epistemologies...

Could cancer be a contagious disease? Although this possibility might seem surprising to many of us, it has a long history...

In "Hockey," Hardy and Holman offer a comprehensive and engaging history of the fastest game from it’s origins in a series of stick based contests, including early hockey, bandy, and polo through to the development of our contemporary commercial hockey best exhibited by the NHL and KHL.

With the US in the midst of on-going negotiations with Iran, North Korea, and China, how is Congress playing a part?

James’s mature thinking as a radical empiricist was formed through his experiences and intellectual curiosity as a young man...

Dochuk places religion and oil at the center of American history...

Throughout the 20th century, especially during and immediately after WWII, New York Jews changed their names at rates considerably higher than any other ethnic group...

The book explores ways in which ethnography, as practiced by people who have historically been objects of ethnographic study, can yield transformative and liberatory results.

Barraclough writes the history of elite Mexican and Mexican-American cowboys – charros – and how charro culture served as a site of contested national identity in the mid twentieth century United States...

Where in the world do working moms have it best?

Borrowing from the language of the activists themselves, Janda dubs midwestern student protest to be “Prairie Power"...

Clements discusses the 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...