The Taiwan Strait Crises of 1954-55 and 1958 occurred at the height of the Cold War...

Gleig focuses on meditation-based convert Buddhist lineages in North America, and in particular she is interested in the generational changes underway in these groups...

The first in a two part interview about Alan Watts.

Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it...

In the mid-19th century, photographs became key tools in debates surrounding slavery...

The US government is laboring under an enormous debt burden, one that will impact the living standards of future generations of Americans by limiting investment in people and infrastructure...

What does a typical American Catholic parish look like?

Lee traces the Native kinship ties that determined which nations rose and fell in the period before the Illinois became dominant.

With its long and well-documented history, Prince Edward Island makes a compelling case study for thousands of years of human interaction with a specific ecosystem...

"Trains, Buses, People' is a fascinating book about “How To” develop better transportation modes for US cities and urban...

The Heartland makes a strong case for the Midwest not as a provincial, isolated, region but rather as a place defined by global connections, diasporas, and a wide array of cultures...

Holzer chronicles the career of French, who became best known for his sculpture of Abraham Lincoln for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. 

Five decades ago, Native American leaders launched a crusade to force museums to return their sacred objects and allow them to rebury their kin...

Scholars and pundits have been busy trying to assess the legacy of President Barack Obama...

Pullin reconstructs the Meetings that monitored the lives of Quaker women...

Michael R. Cohen is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Tulane University, where he holds a Sizeler Professorship...

Anand Prahlad was born on a former plantation in Virginia in 1954. This memoir, vividly internal, powerfully lyric, and brilliantly impressionistic, is his story...

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

Jewish women have consistently played a vital and significant role in American history more broadly, and American Jewish history specifically...

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....