In 1883, a young woman named Anandi Joshi set out from her native India to the United States to study medicine..,

"The Subhedar's Son" provides a fascinating insight into Brahmanical-Christian conversions of the era, along with attitudes surrounding such conversions...

Reyes examines the ways Colombian artist Beatriz González and Argentine-born art critic Marta Traba railed against international forms of modernism...

Eisler argues that modern humans are descended from primates who imitated the hunting practices and pack hierarchies of wolves during the scarcity of the ice age...

Harmer explores how a young Chilean woman pursued her political commitments and navigated patriarchal strictures as a militant leftist...

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Wasyl Kushnir goes back to the second half of the 19th century and takes the reader to the present moment: the story provides a glimpse into a family that seems to be shaped by all the atrocities of the 20th century...

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),...