A new book explores how and why New York City became a showcase for the art and architectural styles of ancient Greece and Rome.

Monica Kim provides a fresh look at the Korean War with a people-centered approach that studies the experiences of prisoners of war...

Silicon Valley is understood to be one of the most fast-paced regions on earth, where innovation and upheaval are part and parcel of daily life...

Writing a synthesis on the history American Slavery is quite a job. Calvin Schermerhorn, though, has done a wonderful job of it.

Farina King argues that education and the creation of “thick” cultural knowledge played, and continues to play, a central role in the survival of Diné culture...

Noah Coburn's book is about the hidden workers of American’s foreign wars: third country nationals who while not serving in their country’s militaries, still work to support the American war effort...

Dr. Hirota’s book focuses on state legislation policies of immigration control in New York and Massachusetts...

The opioid crisis in America is considered by many to be the worst national public health crisis in the last 100 years....

Unpersuaded by the common assumption that James Fort had long ago been washed away by the James River, William Kelso and his collaborators...

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.

Clarence Taylor looks at black resistance to police brutality in the city, and institutional efforts to hold the NYPD accountable, since the late 1930s and '40s.

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

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....

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

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....

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...

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

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...

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...