Scholars and pundits have been busy trying to assess the legacy of President Barack Obama...

Anand Prahlad was born on a former plantation in Virginia in 1954. This memoir, vividly internal, powerfully lyric, and brilliantly impressionistic, is his story...

Michael R. Cohen is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Tulane University, where he holds a Sizeler Professorship...

Pullin reconstructs the Meetings that monitored the lives of Quaker women...

Audrey Hepburn was justly known for her long acting career, yet her early life is largely unknown...

Jewish women have consistently played a vital and significant role in American history more broadly, and American Jewish history specifically...

In a new book, Beard describes growing up in a community that required its members to participate in excessive tithing, among other practices designed to prey on those who had the least to give...

The collection of essays examines the varied and multifaceted scholarship surrounding the topic of peace and engages in a fruitful dialogue about the global history of peace since 1750...

Ask a Brooklynite over the age of fifty and they’ll likely tell you that baseball’s golden age ended the day the Dodgers and Giants packed up and headed for the West Coast...

When rock n’roll emerged in the 1950’s, ministers denounced it from their pulpits and Sunday school teachers warned of the music’s demonic origins....

As active members of the Civil Rights movement and the anti-Vietnam War movement in the 1960s, and leaders in today’s social movements, the Flacks' stories are a first-hand account of progressive American activism from the 1960s to the present.

In recent years, the treatment of African Americans by police departments around the country has come under increased public scrutiny...

Alison Schrager is not a typical economist...

Hard won transgender rights have been under attack by the Trump administration...

Robert McNamara is best remembered today for his momentous term as Secretary of Defense in the 1960s. Often overlooked because of this is his even longer tenure as president of the World Bank...

In what has been called history’s largest population migration, hundreds of thousands of Norwegians immigrated to North American during the 1800s and early 1900s...

Islam in American has been profoundly shaped by the Black Muslim experience...

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...

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

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...

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