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...

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...

During the civil rights era, Memphis gained a reputation for having one of the South’s strongest NAACP branches...

There is no denying that the public remains fascinated with monarchy...

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...

The increasing presence of interracial relationships is often read as an antidote to racism or as an indicator of the decreasing significance of race...

In the late ’90s and early 2000s, the Portland Trail Blazers were one of the hottest teams in the NBA...

Kim explores questions of loss, memory, and redress in post WWII Asian diasporic decolonial politics...

Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce—the book trade and the slave trade...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...