Though his advice has saved the lives of millions of people, the name Ignaz Semmelweis is not one commonly known today...

Braddick takes a fresh look at the turmoil that gripped England for three decades in the middle of the seventeenth century...

Nathanson examines the life of Jim Bouton, a journeyman pitcher whose 1970 book, “Ball Four,” was a lightning rod for controversy and became one of the best sports books of all time....

Oualdi explores the life and afterlife of one figure, the manumitted slave and Tunisian dignitary Husayn Ibn ‘Abdallah...

The life of Theodor Herzl (1860–1904) was as puzzling as it was brief...

John Hervey Wheeler (1908–1978) was one of the civil rights movement's most influential leaders...

In a memoir by turns insightful and outlandish, Fleming combines meticulous observation with a keen sense of the absurdity of his actions...

Mattina offers the first full biography of Reichard, and examines her pathbreaking work in the ethnography of ritual and mythology; Wiyot, Coeur d’Alene, and Navajo linguistics; folk art, gender, and language; and her exceptional career of teaching, editing, publishing, and mentoring...

Despite a reign that lasted for over two decades, the Mughal emperor Jahangir has often been regarded as a weak ruler...

Konadu tells the story Kofi Donko (1913-1995) and the many communities he served as a blacksmith, healer, farmer, leader and intellectual...

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

After a life lived in obscurity, Emily Dickinson emerged after death as one of the greatest poets of her time...

Randall focuses in this memoir on recreating the communities and historical moments in which she lived. Randall especially emphasizes how her encounter with feminist thinking reshaped how she understood not only her own life, but also the Latin American revolutions she saw up from up close...

Kettler and Wheatland pays special attention to Neumann's efforts to break down the conventional divide between political theory and the empirical discipline of political science...

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

In 1831, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites, mostly women and children. After more than two months in hiding, Turner was captured, and quickly convicted and executed...

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...

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...

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...

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...