John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667) is widely recognised as the greatest epic poem in the English language...

The second in a two-part interview about Alan Watts

The U.S. Constitution is often depicted in popular films, teaching lessons about what this founding document means and what it requires...

Michael J. Mazarr has written a history of the policy planning process leading up to the Iraq War in 2003...

One of the most important trends within evangelicalism over the last half-century has been a renewal of Reformed theology...

The Taiwan Strait Crises of 1954-55 and 1958 occurred at the height of the Cold War...

Gleig focuses on meditation-based convert Buddhist lineages in North America, and in particular she is interested in the generational changes underway in these groups...

In the mid-19th century, photographs became key tools in debates surrounding slavery...

Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it...

The first in a two part interview about Alan Watts.

The US government is laboring under an enormous debt burden, one that will impact the living standards of future generations of Americans by limiting investment in people and infrastructure...

What does a typical American Catholic parish look like?

Lee traces the Native kinship ties that determined which nations rose and fell in the period before the Illinois became dominant.

"Trains, Buses, People' is a fascinating book about “How To” develop better transportation modes for US cities and urban...

The Heartland makes a strong case for the Midwest not as a provincial, isolated, region but rather as a place defined by global connections, diasporas, and a wide array of cultures...

With its long and well-documented history, Prince Edward Island makes a compelling case study for thousands of years of human interaction with a specific ecosystem...

Holzer chronicles the career of French, who became best known for his sculpture of Abraham Lincoln for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. 

Five decades ago, Native American leaders launched a crusade to force museums to return their sacred objects and allow them to rebury their kin...

Scholars and pundits have been busy trying to assess the legacy of President Barack Obama...

Michael R. Cohen is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Tulane University, where he holds a Sizeler Professorship...

Anand Prahlad was born on a former plantation in Virginia in 1954. This memoir, vividly internal, powerfully lyric, and brilliantly impressionistic, is his story...

Pullin reconstructs the Meetings that monitored the lives of Quaker women...

Jewish women have consistently played a vital and significant role in American history more broadly, and American Jewish history specifically...