Becker recounts her experience as a patient in four different mental hospitals from 1957 to 1960...

Aronson gives us the life of a women’s rights activist, labor lawyer, radical pacifist, writer and co-founder of what became the Civil Liberties Union...

Moses dissects the corpus of Jefferson’s writings and examines the span of his activities...

Earl Campbell was a force in American football...

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

Chamberlain delineates Uvarov's career and shows how one of the most cosmopolitan of men, became in the course of his official career the inventor of much that can be seen in to-day's xenophobic and nationalistic Russia of Vladimir Putin...

It may only be a slight exaggeration to say that one of David Dillon's career accomplishments was to put the words "Dallas" and "architecture" in the same sentence again...

Driscoll charts the development of the writer’s ethnocentric attitudes about Indians and savagery in relation to the various geographic and social milieus of communities he inhabited at key periods in his life...

After Napoleon occupied Egypt, Europeans became obsessed with the ancient cultures of the Nile...

Woollen investigates the landscapes and buildings of Swedish architect Erik Gunnar Asplund...

Nineteenth-century composer Fanny Hensel is the subject of more published research than any other woman of the period, with the possible exception of Clara Schumann...

This outstanding contribution identifies significant new themes in its collective biography of some of those individuals who, for good or ill, have done most to shape the modern world...

Alou started playing organized baseball late in life (early teens), endured poverty and hardship in his native Dominican Republic, and then helped to break down barriers of language and perception throughout his long career on the field and in the dugout...

When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged...

In 1960, a poet and journalist named Lin Zhao was arrested by the Communist Party of China and sent to prison for re-education...

With a name associated with the famous university in Palo Alto, Leland Stanford is among the best-known of the famous “robber barons” of the 19th century...

Halperin’s Ivan IV emerges as a ruler at once less—and more—mysterious than in previous treatments of this subject...

Nobody should feel excited about the renewed relevance of Hannah Arendt's work today...

Namier remains famous in academic circles for supposedly declaring that any reference to ideas in political discourse was nothing more than 'flapdoodle'...

The history of anthropology remembers James Teit as a field assistant and man-on-the spot for Franz Boas...

John and Abigail Adams founded a famous political family, but they would not witness its calamitous fall from grace...

Throughout much of his career as an actor in Hollywood, Ronald Reagan identified as a passionate New Deal Democrat...

Spielrein's life resembles a nodal point; she stood at the crossroads of extraordinary changes in world politics and psychoanalysis...

Mendes-Flohr paints a detailed and compelling portrait of one of the twentieth century's most versatile and influential thinkers..,

Guiffrida tells the history of collecting and exhibiting Chinese art through the story of renowned curator and museum director Sherman E. Lee (1918-2008)...