As a black and queer-identifying man, McCrary examines these identities through keen exploration of gender, sexuality, race, class, geography, and more...

Ward tracks the political origins of the southern moderate outsider and the northern liberal insider, and paints two complex and nuanced portraits...

The alleged link between vaccines and autism has long been disproven, but it is still a belief held onto by the anti-vaccine movement...

The murder of Emmett Till and subsequent trial was a national and international news story, but the exact meaning of events in Mississippi were contested...

Leigh Goodmark asks us to evaluate the effects of criminalizing domestic violence...

There’s lot of talk these days, at least in some circles on the left, of a Universal Basic Income...

The Super Bowl is a singular spectacle in American culture. More than just a championship football game...

In Baltimore, the word "hon" has a particular salience and is often associated a certain type of blue-collar woman who sports a beehive hairdo and cat-eye glasses...

A new book explores how and why New York City became a showcase for the art and architectural styles of ancient Greece and Rome.

Monica Kim provides a fresh look at the Korean War with a people-centered approach that studies the experiences of prisoners of war...

Silicon Valley is understood to be one of the most fast-paced regions on earth, where innovation and upheaval are part and parcel of daily life...

Writing a synthesis on the history American Slavery is quite a job. Calvin Schermerhorn, though, has done a wonderful job of it.

Farina King argues that education and the creation of “thick” cultural knowledge played, and continues to play, a central role in the survival of Diné culture...

Noah Coburn's book is about the hidden workers of American’s foreign wars: third country nationals who while not serving in their country’s militaries, still work to support the American war effort...

Dr. Hirota’s book focuses on state legislation policies of immigration control in New York and Massachusetts...

The opioid crisis in America is considered by many to be the worst national public health crisis in the last 100 years....

Unpersuaded by the common assumption that James Fort had long ago been washed away by the James River, William Kelso and his collaborators...

In this pioneering study of one of the World War Two era US Army’s primary architects of victory, Calhoun presents a portrait of a deeply intellectual and loyal commander who took on responsibility for many unpopular doctrinal and ToE choices.

Clarence Taylor looks at black resistance to police brutality in the city, and institutional efforts to hold the NYPD accountable, since the late 1930s and '40s.

Peyote occupies a curious place in the United States and Mexico...

I don’t know about the colleges and universities you’re familiar with, but the U.S. military has a pretty visible presence on my campus....

Jackson argues that the 2017 nuclear crisis was a product of a gradual hardening of U.S. policy towards North Korea...

How did a Wall Street executive and “foreclosure king” like Steve Mnuchin become the Treasury Secretary for a populist like Donald Trump?

While William Penn’s name is one familiar to many Americans thanks to his founding of the Pennsylvania colony...

Think that today's debates about the role of the Federal Reserve Bank, financial regulation, "too big to fail", etc. are new?  Think again...