Wertheimer argues that American Jews are indeed engaging with Judaism, albeit in unique and unorthodox ways...

The book looks at the history of institutionalized racism around the U.S., showing that laws, policies, and entitlements in every region of the country...

Susan Lepselter asks what happens when we listen to “UFO talk” ethnographically, understanding it as a form of vernacular American poetics that must be made sense of within specific cultural and political contexts...

The author examines how 1970s right-wing women activists in the state of Indiana combined earlier political conspiracy theories, Cold War anti-communism and anti-ERA sentiment to cast feminism as threat to American democracy, free enterprise, and the family.

We are fed a steady stream of doom and gloom—terrorist attacks, erosion of democracy, robots taking our jobs...

John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667) is widely recognised as the greatest epic poem in the English language...

The second in a two-part interview about Alan Watts

The U.S. Constitution is often depicted in popular films, teaching lessons about what this founding document means and what it requires...

Michael J. Mazarr has written a history of the policy planning process leading up to the Iraq War in 2003...

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

One of the most important trends within evangelicalism over the last half-century has been a renewal of Reformed theology...

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...

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...

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

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

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