Audrey Hepburn was justly known for her long acting career, yet her early life is largely unknown...

In a new book, Beard describes growing up in a community that required its members to participate in excessive tithing, among other practices designed to prey on those who had the least to give...

The collection of essays examines the varied and multifaceted scholarship surrounding the topic of peace and engages in a fruitful dialogue about the global history of peace since 1750...

Ask a Brooklynite over the age of fifty and they’ll likely tell you that baseball’s golden age ended the day the Dodgers and Giants packed up and headed for the West Coast...

When rock n’roll emerged in the 1950’s, ministers denounced it from their pulpits and Sunday school teachers warned of the music’s demonic origins....

As active members of the Civil Rights movement and the anti-Vietnam War movement in the 1960s, and leaders in today’s social movements, the Flacks' stories are a first-hand account of progressive American activism from the 1960s to the present.

Alison Schrager is not a typical economist...

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...

Who funds local school board elections?

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...