In recent years, the treatment of African Americans by police departments around the country has come under increased public scrutiny...

Hard won transgender rights have been under attack by the Trump administration...

Robert McNamara is best remembered today for his momentous term as Secretary of Defense in the 1960s. Often overlooked because of this is his even longer tenure as president of the World Bank...

In what has been called history’s largest population migration, hundreds of thousands of Norwegians immigrated to North American during the 1800s and early 1900s...

Islam in American has been profoundly shaped by the Black Muslim experience...

Who funds local school board elections?

Magnusdottir explores depictions of America in post-war Soviet propaganda. While the 1945 “meeting on the Elbe” marked a high point in United States/Soviet friendship, official relations deteriorated quickly thereafter...

Not all gold rushes are created equal, argues Christopher Herbert...

Between 1822 and 1857, eight Southern states barred the ingress of all free black maritime workers...

Today, I spoke with LaTanya McQueen, whose new collection of essays reckons with intriguing and timely questions about history, race, family, place, and self...

Gates interrogates understandings of African-American representations on screen...

The story of popular entertainment in American immigrant communities is only just beginning to be told...

Throughout modern history, British and American rivalry has gone hand in hand with common interests...

Vivian Percy's new book is the narration of a mother and daughter’s long painful journey from tragedy, through opioid addiction, toward redemption...

Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery...

If you’re a Latter Day Saint, you’ve probably heard of W. W. Phelps, and no doubt, you’ve probably sung some of his hymns...

By the 1980s, critics and the public alike considered James Baldwin irrelevant. Yet Baldwin remained an important, prolific writer until his death in 1987...

Black Politics in Transition examines the role of three themes—immigration, suburbanization, and gentrification—in Black politics today...

Kupperman shifts the lens on the well-known narrative of Virginia’s founding to reveal the previously untold and utterly compelling story of the youths who, often unwillingly, entered into cross-cultural relationships...

Teaching about religion in a public school in the United States is rewarding, but very difficult...

Keurajian provides historical perspective behind every autograph. He does not mince words when it comes to exposing forgeries and backs up his assertions with evidence...

Albrecht explores the ways in which popular cultural texts address widely circulating discourses of the ostensible ’crisis of masculinity’ in contemporary culture...

Why do people live where they do? What explains the persistence of residential segregation?

Steve Luxenberg has created an unusual history of the famous Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson and the 19th century’s segregationist practices...

In the late 1980s, Gave was asked by the Detroit Red Wings to reach behind the Iron Curtain and initiate contact with the team's newest draft picks, two players on the Soviet Union's famed Red Army hockey club...