Janzen examines the lives of two religious minority communities in Mexico, Mennonites and Mormons, as seen through Mexican culture...

Karol examines the history of environmental policy within American political parties...

Ornamentalism offers arguably the first sustained theory of the yellow woman...

Mayer finds women played a crucial role in the politics of the union...

Dean examines the cultural history of the idea of the “witness to genocide” in Western Europe and the United States...

Fahrenthold sheds a timely light on Syrian and Lebanese immigrants who established vibrant diaspora communities in the Americas during the late 19th and early 20th centuries...

Think running an insurance company or a bank is hard?  Try doing it as an African-American woman in the Jim Crow South...

Nickliss shows how Hearst came to exercise such power and the ways she uses it to advance the causes in which she believed...

An examination of the lives of foreign policy thinkers can therefore help explain why U.S. foreign policy took particular paths...

LeBrón examines the rise of and resistance to punitive governance (tough on crime policing policies) in Puerto Rico from the 1990s to the present...

Donnelly focuses on the 1985 New York baseball season, a season like no other since the Mets came to town in 1962...

The modern progressive movement is rising in influence, intensity and numbers. Just where did it come from and where is it going?

Jones talks about the many different groups, from naturalists and conservationists to African American artists and intellectuals, who begin to recast Africa in the America imagination in the early 20th century...

Rule-making may rarely make headlines, but the significance of this largely hidden process cannot be underestimated...

Grainger argues that it was not the Transcendentalists but evangelical revivalists who transformed the everyday religious life of Americans and spiritualized the natural environment..

The television comedies of the 1960s set in the American South epitomize American innocence...

Peterson discusses how this self-governing Atlantic trading center began as a refuge from Britain’s Stuart monarchs and how—through its bargain with slavery and ratification of the Constitution—it would tragically lose integrity and autonomy as it became incorporated into the greater United States...

Merriman's book new book explores what he calls uncooperative federalism. He finds a deliberate conservative strategy to use the courts and state executive power to resist federal influence in state affairs...

Chamberlin reminds us that the Cold War was not at all Cold for hundreds of millions of people...

Rather than primarily trace historical events while touching on cultural matters as many of these books do, Bomberger follows the events in jazz and classical music during this crucial year while framing them within America’s entry into World War One....

The two authors, both masters in the field, take on the monumental task of offering a civil-military synthesis of the war against Japan that covers both the home front and the campaigns in exacting detail...

Rabinowitz, born in 1887 in Ukraine, described her experiences as an immigrant, factory worker, single mother by choice, and union organizer...

With his secretary’s coaxing over the course of nineteen years, McKay documented how he charted a steady course through institutional storms...

Russo explores how solidarity activists contest the practices of the US security state both within its borders and abroad. Russo follows three social movement organizations...

The Mark of Criminality positions the work of key gangsta rap artists--Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur--as well as the controversies their work produced...