The authors present Agnew as a progenitor of the conservative populism associated today with America’s 45th president...

Orozco traces the life of Adela Sloss-Vento, a twentieth-century Mexican American woman civil rights activist in Texas...

“Another heavenly day” is the opening line of Samuel Beckett’s play Happy Days (1961),...

During his twelve years in Ann Arbor, Beilein became the program's all-time winningest coach, reached two national championship games, won four Big Ten championships and produced eight NBA first-round draft picks...

Ostensibly a travelogue and ethnographic account of a European's fieldwork among indigenous people in mid-20th century Brazil, it is a work of impassioned curiosity...

Of the many thousands who participated in the American and French revolutions in the late 18th century, only a handful played roles in both events...

Forret explores the career of prominent slave trader William H. Williams, whose operation was based in Washington DC...

Hamlin offers a fascinating biography of a little-known suffrage leader...

Park offers an account of the Korean Buddhist nun, Kim Iryŏp’s life and philosophy, which takes place from 1896-1971...

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

In his latest book, journalist Jay Weiner details the extraordinary life of Professor Hy Berman...

Sinkoff offers s the first comprehensive biography of Dawidowicz (1915-1990), a pioneer historian in the field that is now called "Holocaust Studies"..

Taylor tells the story of how Jefferson’s vision for educating the next generations of American came to be...

Limning – the painting of miniature portraits – was an important art form in 16th-century Europe. Among its greatest practitioners was Nicholas Hilliard...

Who was the real Marie-Antoinette?

This charming book is more than just mathematics, because mathematicians are not just makers of mathematics...

Wolff traces how Wilson's emerging definition of national self-determination and his practical application of the principle changed over time as negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference unfolded...

Though the story of emancipation is well known in American history, the roles of many of the key figures involved in it are often overlooked. Among them is James Mitchell Ashley...

From humble beginnings as the son of immigrant parents growing up in Brooklyn, Holzman paved a path of excellence at every level...

Stein weaves a narrative tapestry whose threads are drawn from the archives of one Sephardic family, with roots in the city of Salonica, then in the Ottoman Empire, now Thessaloniki in Greece...

How does the world of book reviews work?

Siddiqui conducts a masterful analysis of how conditions of political change and fragmentation generate intellectual debates and fermentation on the often-conflictual interaction of certainty, continuity, and community in Muslim thought and practice....

Green tells the story of Herbert Daniel, a significant and complex figure in Brazilian leftist revolutionary politics and social activism from the mid-1960s until his death in 1992...

Dr. Alistair Sponsel talks about Darwin’s experiences on HMS Beagle and his early career as a naturalist...

Starting in the early 1930s, a small group of academics and writers met weekly in a pub in Oxford, England to discuss literature, religion, and ideas. Known as the Inklings...