Long T. Bui examines the complicated relationship between the Vietnamese diasporic community and its home country, the former South Vietnam...

Nolan also challenges the hoary concept of the military "genius," even of the Great Captains--from Alexander to Frederick and Napoleon--mapping instead the decent into total war...

"Properties of Empire" challenges assumptions about the relationship between Indigenous and imperial property creation in early America...

Matt Guardino focuses on the power of corporate news media in shaping how the public understands the key policy debates during this period...

What does anti-imperialism look like from the vantage point of North America?

Jennifer Helgren traces the creation of a new internationalist girl citizenship in the first two decades following World War II by uncovering the activism of girls organizations including Camp Fire Girls, YWCA Y-Teens, and the Girl Scouts...

Among many topics, Balay details how racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia are a part, and not a part, of truck drivers’ interactions with customers, shippers, and receivers...

Annalee’s book is a systematic inquiry into the institutional forces that make it hard for teachers to engage in policymaking, and she contrasts these barriers with the ways they are do have a voice and agency...

While the thrust of Stranger in a Strange State is on this topic of carpetbagging, our understanding of carpetbagging also brings forward considerations of representation, since the critique of the carpetbagger tends to be a disconnection from the citizens to be represented, especially for those running for the United States Senate...

No, not the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Perhaps even more important than that Illinois contest of 1858 was the Webster-Hayne debate of 1830.

Hinke tells the stories of millionaires and pastry chefs, popcorn vendors, and perfume salesmen, all gathered aboard the gargantuan ship for its celebrated maiden voyage in 1912.

The authors examine past countering-violent-extremism (CVE) efforts, evaluate Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and interagency efforts to respond to ideological radicalization to violence...

Maggor’s provocative history of the Gilded Age explores how the moneyed elite in Boston—the quintessential East Coast establishment—leveraged its wealth to forge transcontinental networks of commodities, labor, and transportation...

The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of the Union army as it moved deep into the heart of the Confederacy...

Hanley seeks to shift the focus of black history away from a slavery and abolition, and toward something more complex...

For most people, geopolitics is something that happens out there, in boardrooms and on battlefields. But critical geographers, and feminist political geographers in particular, have in recent years shown how the geopolitical is something that comes into being in the intimate and the everyday...

Blending sports and military history, the authors revisit the national pastime and the Doughboys who were fervent fans...

Sayle examines the history of NATO from its founding in the late 1940s through to its expansion in the post-Cold War era...

Crossland describes the emergence of various movements in the second half of the 19th. century...

"Appalachian Reckoning" is a retort, at turn rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow J.D. Vance’s "Hillbilly Elegy" has cast over the region and its imagining.

Grasso provides an in-depth look at O'Keeffe's ambivalent relationship with feminism from her early beginnings as a New Woman of the 1910s, to the support she received from women to become a national icon for feminism...

A meticulously-researched and accessible monograph, Global Art and the Cold War demonstrates the crucial role of art in the greatest geopolitical conflict of the 20th century...

Using Motorola as a case study, A Telephone for the World tracks how U.S. businesses navigated the end of the twentieth century, a moment marked by the rise of neoliberalism, the economic challenge of Japan, and the end of the Cold War.

Alphonso demonstrates how regional ideas about family in the 20th century shaped, not only Republican and Democratic policy and ideological positions concerning race and gender, but also their ideals concerning the economy and the state...

Black explores the forty-one years from the beginning of the Great War in August 1914 to the surrender of Japan in August 1945....