Who funds local school board elections?

Magnusdottir explores depictions of America in post-war Soviet propaganda. While the 1945 “meeting on the Elbe” marked a high point in United States/Soviet friendship, official relations deteriorated quickly thereafter...

Not all gold rushes are created equal, argues Christopher Herbert...

Between 1822 and 1857, eight Southern states barred the ingress of all free black maritime workers...

Gates interrogates understandings of African-American representations on screen...

Today, I spoke with LaTanya McQueen, whose new collection of essays reckons with intriguing and timely questions about history, race, family, place, and self...

The story of popular entertainment in American immigrant communities is only just beginning to be told...

Throughout modern history, British and American rivalry has gone hand in hand with common interests...

Vivian Percy's new book is the narration of a mother and daughter’s long painful journey from tragedy, through opioid addiction, toward redemption...

Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery...

If you’re a Latter Day Saint, you’ve probably heard of W. W. Phelps, and no doubt, you’ve probably sung some of his hymns...

By the 1980s, critics and the public alike considered James Baldwin irrelevant. Yet Baldwin remained an important, prolific writer until his death in 1987...

Kupperman shifts the lens on the well-known narrative of Virginia’s founding to reveal the previously untold and utterly compelling story of the youths who, often unwillingly, entered into cross-cultural relationships...

Black Politics in Transition examines the role of three themes—immigration, suburbanization, and gentrification—in Black politics today...

Teaching about religion in a public school in the United States is rewarding, but very difficult...

Albrecht explores the ways in which popular cultural texts address widely circulating discourses of the ostensible ’crisis of masculinity’ in contemporary culture...

Keurajian provides historical perspective behind every autograph. He does not mince words when it comes to exposing forgeries and backs up his assertions with evidence...

Why do people live where they do? What explains the persistence of residential segregation?

Steve Luxenberg has created an unusual history of the famous Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson and the 19th century’s segregationist practices...

In the late 1980s, Gave was asked by the Detroit Red Wings to reach behind the Iron Curtain and initiate contact with the team's newest draft picks, two players on the Soviet Union's famed Red Army hockey club...

In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...

In Cult of the Irrelevant, Desch traces the history of the relationship between the Washington and the academy across the 20th century...

Diverse in their languages and customs, the Native American peoples of the Great Lakes region—the Miamis, Ho-Chunks, Potawatomis, Ojibwas, and many others—shared a tumultuous history...

Rivalry and Reform explores the historical relationships between presidents and social movements.

Professor Fede’s account traces the variations in restrictions on slave owners and third parties’ treatment upon the murder of a slave.