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.

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

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

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....

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

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

Black Elk witnessed some of the most monumental moments in the history of the Lakota and the Northern Great Plains....

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

While most people in the US are familiar with the ubiquitous Kellogg cereal brand, few know how it relates to US geography, science and technology around the turn of the 20th century...

The field of African American intellectual history is enjoying a kind of renaissance at the moment...

Through ideological laden invocation of pluralism, the “culture of poverty,” and faith in the workings of democratic institutions, liberals shared with conservatives support for an individualistic and racist social order...

As the island of Puerto Rico transitioned from Spanish to U.S. imperial rule, the military and political mobilization of popular sectors of its society played important roles in the evolution of its national identities and subsequent political choices...

In Administrative Burden, Herd and Moynihan show that the administrative burdens citizens regularly encounter in their interactions with government are not accidental, but the result of deliberate policy choices...

Documenting Aftermath is a very timely book, for as global warming promises more frequent catastrophes, large-scale social media and government information systems increasingly dictate how information moves...

With transgender rights front and center in American politics, media, and culture, the pervasive myth still exists that today’s transgender children are a brand new generation...

Dr. William Green investigates this statement in a case-study of four whites from Minnesota who fought hard and won rights for black Americans during and after the Civil War...

Traditionally Al Smith’s 1928 presidential campaign is remembered mainly for being the first time a Catholic was nominated as the candidate for a major political party....

When "Dirty Harry" first premiered in 1971, it was both praised and condemned for its portrayal of a rogue policeman fighting crime by ignoring many of the rules and procedures of the profession...

Lumbering late Tsarist Russia and international finance? Is there anything there?  The Bolsheviks and finance? How can there be anything there?

Just when you thought that you knew everything and anything pertaining to the Cold War and the ending of it...

Dr. Maurice J. Hobson’s new book delves into the tremendously rich history of Atlanta...

To wrap up the year and look ahead to 2019, we talked about the books we loved...

While most every live-action film takes place in a specific location, the role of these places has not often been studied...