The secession of Texas from Mexico was a dry run for the slaveholder’s republic of the Confederate States of America, argues Andrew Torget...

The carrier task force—the symbolic and physical manifestation of the United States’ ability to project naval and air power across the globe—came of age during the Second World War...

Jones examines the evolution of race relations in the face of rapid demographic change as Mexican immigrants move into the traditionally biracial American South...

Twitty looks at numerous freedom suits filed in the St. Louis circuit court in order to examine the legal history of slavery and freedom...

When the British explored the Atlantic coast of America in the 1580s, their relations with indigenous peoples were structured by food...

When we imagine Anna Freud, how does she appear to us?

Small is beautiful, right? Isn't that what we've all been taught?

Pardew describes the role of the U.S. involvement in ending the wars and genocide in the Balkans...

"Rethinking Rufus" is the first book-length study of sexual violence against enslaved men...

Welch explores the history of free and enslaved black Americans use of local courts in the Cotton South...

Borchard calls for a better understanding of journalism's past, at a time of acute concern about its future...

Elaine Hampton tell the story of how a Mexican American community in El Paso have fought back against environmental injustice...

Bourbon whiskey has been around since nearly the beginning of the United States...

The editors have formulated a landmark anthology illustrating Chicana feminism and activism that spread in the Southwest, Midwest, and Pacific Northwest during the Chicana/o movement era...

Powers explores the rich and, at times, unexpected intersections of love, sex, race, gender, sexuality, and American popular music...

jayy dodd offers her own brilliant reflections on so many things: the contemporary moment, dystopia, her transition, and more...

Watt precisely narrates a rich case study of the sweeping lands and waters surrounding Point Reyes, an hour north of San Francisco in Marin County,..

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

Over the past forty years, U.S. prisons and jails have used various psychotropic drugs...

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