If you mention Appalachia to many people, they may immediately respond with the "Deliverance" dueling banjos theme...

This episode of the New Books in Military History podcast is something of a sea change, so to speak, as we turn our attention to naval policy and strategy...

The book demonstrates the rich contribution of Jewish values and identity had on the women’s liberation movement and how in turn they changed Jewish life in America...

It's been called the first Internet. In the nineteenth century, the telegraph spun a world wide web of cables and poles, carrying electronic signals with unprecedented speed...

In the early days of film, female comedians appeared in films that included both strange activities and slapstick....

In this book, Janis Powers offers a health care solution that is truly based on the American dream...

Sargent, a writer and columnist at The Washington Post, takes seriously this broad question about democratic health...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...