MacNamara traces the multiple avenues in which birth control entered the lives of everyday Americans and gained social acceptance...

Though overshadowed today by more celebrated figures, Walter Francis White was one of the most prominent campaigners for civil rights in mid-20th-century America...

The intersection of religion and politics in the United States is one of the nation's most enduring conversations...

Women get into stripping for money, writes Dr. Bernadete Barton, and the experience the girls have throughout their career in exotic dancing varies...

Ratner-Rosenhagen offers a sweeping examination of the key ideas that have infused American society...

Boryczka explores the fraught position that women find themselves in as citizens of the United States...

McClellan and Duncan’s book offers a behind-the-scenes exploration of the career of Paul J. Sachs (1878-1965) and the graduate program he developed at Harvard University and the Fogg Museum...

In this book, Dr. Vivian asks readers to reconsider our almost sacred regard for the act of witnessing in public culture,,,

With at least one new billionaire in the 2020 presidential race, the politics of the one percent are with us again...

In this bold and deeply interdisciplinary work, Brown demonstrates the centrality of race to modern architectural design...

Joseph Smith, the nineteenth-century American prophet who founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, can, at times, be considered an elusive historical figure...

Jonathan Edwards is by now widely recognised as America’s most important early philosopher and theologian...

Phillips explores the emergence of the horror film genre before it was horror and a post-Civil War national American identity...

One of the enduring questions in American historiography is: just where exactly is the West?

Rankin makes a compelling case for a social history of computing...

American Sutra is also an inspiring account of how Japanese-Americans embodied faith, ingenuity and sacrifice in the face of great adversity...

Bianca Williams offers her readers a different starting point by asking: What about Black women’s experiences of happiness, pleasure, leisure, desire...

The law does things, writes David Ray Papke, and it says things...

In State Capture, Hertel-Fernandez focuses on the development and political power of  three inter-locking interest groups...

Soulsby talks to key players in the band’s history and traces their evolution from noise rock provocateurs in New York’s 1980s underground music scene...

Howe examines the social and spiritual contexts of Muslims living outside of Chicago...

Margaret Peacock analyzes the various ways in which images of children were put to use, in Soviet and American Cold War propaganda...

On June 18, 1969, "The Wild Bunch" premiered to critical success...

This book, which unpacks the census itself, leads the reader to consider how this mundane tool actually translates the abstraction of the state into a concrete entity...

The so-called Urban Crisis of the 1970s continues to loom large in narratives of US urban politics and history...