One of the enduring questions in American historiography is: just where exactly is the West?

Rankin makes a compelling case for a social history of computing...

American Sutra is also an inspiring account of how Japanese-Americans embodied faith, ingenuity and sacrifice in the face of great adversity...

The law does things, writes David Ray Papke, and it says things...

In State Capture, Hertel-Fernandez focuses on the development and political power of  three inter-locking interest groups...

Bianca Williams offers her readers a different starting point by asking: What about Black women’s experiences of happiness, pleasure, leisure, desire...

Soulsby talks to key players in the band’s history and traces their evolution from noise rock provocateurs in New York’s 1980s underground music scene...

Howe examines the social and spiritual contexts of Muslims living outside of Chicago...

Margaret Peacock analyzes the various ways in which images of children were put to use, in Soviet and American Cold War propaganda...

On June 18, 1969, "The Wild Bunch" premiered to critical success...

This book, which unpacks the census itself, leads the reader to consider how this mundane tool actually translates the abstraction of the state into a concrete entity...

The so-called Urban Crisis of the 1970s continues to loom large in narratives of US urban politics and history...

As a black and queer-identifying man, McCrary examines these identities through keen exploration of gender, sexuality, race, class, geography, and more...

Ward tracks the political origins of the southern moderate outsider and the northern liberal insider, and paints two complex and nuanced portraits...

The alleged link between vaccines and autism has long been disproven, but it is still a belief held onto by the anti-vaccine movement...

The murder of Emmett Till and subsequent trial was a national and international news story, but the exact meaning of events in Mississippi were contested...

Leigh Goodmark asks us to evaluate the effects of criminalizing domestic violence...

There’s lot of talk these days, at least in some circles on the left, of a Universal Basic Income...

The Super Bowl is a singular spectacle in American culture. More than just a championship football game...

In Baltimore, the word "hon" has a particular salience and is often associated a certain type of blue-collar woman who sports a beehive hairdo and cat-eye glasses...

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...