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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

"Force and Freedom" explores why for many Black abolitionists, slavery could only be obliterated through violent means.

Dr. Joseph Jarvis not only digs into how we got here and who is to blame, but he also lays out a solution for fixing the American healthcare system...

Richard Oakes was a natural born leader whom people followed seemingly on instinct...

By highlighting the activism of local Black women and Black teachers, Todd-Breland uncovers hidden histories of how Black women have been at the forefront of this fight from the 1960s to the present...

Politicians love to woo entertainment corporations to their states and cities through subsidies and tax cities. But...

Slate paints a picture of the two countries as learning perpetually from each other...

Richard Drake traces the development of Beard’s ideas in this area and his involvement in the contemporary discourse over current events...

If you are reading this, you have probably run into the "Chicago" model at some point or another,..