Plum examines our moment at the cellular level—whether that’s a cancerous cell or a terrorist cell—with the aim of understanding what’s happened to us in the Iraq War, in the attacks on 9/11, at the Boston Marathon bombings...

A free black woman from Connecticut, Jane Manning James positioned herself at the center of LDS history with uncanny precision...

Lasso argues compellingly that the construction of the Panama Canal prompted the destruction of a bustling network of towns, along with the livelihoods and democratic traditions of their inhabitants...

Do Americans who vote on initiatives grow in political efficacy and participate more in the future?

Jennifer Thomson revisits canonical figures and events from the environmental movement in the United States and finds everywhere talk of health. At its best, viewing the environment through the lens of health encouraged decentralized organizing and a sense of collective responsibility...

Edelson shows how the Crown and the Board of Trade initiated the mapping of every new corner of Britain’s American dominions – places that were also the ancestral homes of Native Americans and the site of emerging settler republics...

Josephson and Holder note that their “focus is Niebuhr himself and what the encounter between his own theology and his practical political experience might reveal in our contemporary situation.”

In The Practice of Citizenship, Derrick R. Spires examines the parallel development of early black print culture and legal and cultural understandings of U.S. citizenship...

The development of a whole suite of new reproductive technologies in recent decades has contributed to broad cultural conversations and controversies over the meaning of family in the United States...

The endlessly fascinating 1968 presidential race transformed American politics in ways that are still being felt...

White argues that today's antigay Christian traditions originated in the 1920s when a group of liberal Protestants began to incorporate psychiatry and psychotherapy into Christian teaching...

In a series of riveting and in depth interviews, America's senior statesman, former Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, discusses the challenges of directing foreign policy during times of great global tension...

In Raising Race Questions, Ali Michael worked with a group of white teachers to inquire about race and schooling...

Golding examines the current status of Star Wars, as well as the similarities and differences between the old and the new...

We are living in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and binge eating to pornography and opioid abuse...

Rosemblatt traces how U.S.- and Mexican-trained intellectuals, social and human scientists, and anthropologists applied their ethnographic field work on indigenous and Native American peoples on both sides of the Rio Grande to debates over race, national culture, and economic development...

Campaigns against prostitution of young people in the United States have surged and ebbed multiple times over the last fifty years...

Music has always been integral to the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States...

Daou analyzes the daily political skirmishing that rages online, urges progressives to engage on the “digital battlefield.”

Relative wealth has given suburban African Americans employment opportunities and political resources--but not necessarily neighbors, coworkers, or elected officials who share their concerns....

The book looks at the history of institutionalized racism around the U.S., showing that laws, policies, and entitlements in every region of the country...

Susan Lepselter asks what happens when we listen to “UFO talk” ethnographically, understanding it as a form of vernacular American poetics that must be made sense of within specific cultural and political contexts...

Wertheimer argues that American Jews are indeed engaging with Judaism, albeit in unique and unorthodox ways...

The author examines how 1970s right-wing women activists in the state of Indiana combined earlier political conspiracy theories, Cold War anti-communism and anti-ERA sentiment to cast feminism as threat to American democracy, free enterprise, and the family.

We are fed a steady stream of doom and gloom—terrorist attacks, erosion of democracy, robots taking our jobs...