For all of his fame as one of the seminal figures of the Industrial Revolution, James Watt is a person around whom many misconceptions congregate...

Hurley talks about the life and afterlife of the Prussian explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, a man whose reputation has shifted to reflect the changing cultures of Australia and Germany over the past 160 years....

It is hard to overestimate the influence of John Rawls on political philosophy and theory over the last half-century...

Artman tells the story of Kuhlman’s life and, in the process, relates the larger story of charismatic Christianity, particularly how it moved from the fringes of American society to the mainstream...

Mary McLeod Bethune was often called the "First Lady of Negro America," but she made significant contributions to the political climate of Florida as well...

The carrier task force—the symbolic and physical manifestation of the United States’ ability to project naval and air power across the globe—came of age during the Second World War...

Pace examines Hall’s life and philosophy, particularly through the lens of her civil rights activism, her teaching career, and her ministry as a womanist preacher...

Slucki’s memoir blends the scholarly and literary, grounding the story of his grandfather and father in the broader context of the twentieth century...

Lucchesi presents the largely unknown story of the US Navy nurses captured by the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II...

Popoff brings the life and work of this often-overlooked writer into brilliant focus...

For writer Sophia Shalmiyev, the question was never “who is my mother,” but rather, “where has she gone?”

Nearly every consumer today is familiar with the name Levi Strauss thank to the jeans that bear his name...

This book tells the remarkable story of a campesino and indigenous political activist whose career spanned much of Peru’s twentieth century and whose achievements at the local and national level transformed Peruvian peasant politics...

Hawley was an active member of several Latter Day Restoration denominations in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Wisconsin, Texas, the Indian Nations of Oklahoma, and Utah Territory from 1838 to 1909...

James’s mature thinking as a radical empiricist was formed through his experiences and intellectual curiosity as a young man...

In 1956 Albert Gore, Sr. received national attention as one of only three senators from the states of the former Confederacy who refused to sign the infamous “Southern Manifesto” opposing the racial integration of public spaces...

Zaman details what happens when women are silenced by the patriarchy—and what it means to find the power inherent in one’s own voice...

Dr. Pauline Chen shares her experiences as a medical student and transplant surgeon and how they’ve shaped the way she practices medicine.

Nickliss shows how Hearst came to exercise such power and the ways she uses it to advance the causes in which she believed...

Think running an insurance company or a bank is hard?  Try doing it as an African-American woman in the Jim Crow South...

This thoughtful book spans an eighteen-year journey through motherhood as a spiritual practice...

Stein re-emerges as a major twentieth-century rhetorician, not a spin doctor, as the word might suggest to some, but as someone who follows as sure as she remakes the rules of writing, expression, and language...

Rabinowitz, born in 1887 in Ukraine, described her experiences as an immigrant, factory worker, single mother by choice, and union organizer...

In 1919 a man named Ohlohr Maigi died of tuberculosis in London, in deep poverty...

With his secretary’s coaxing over the course of nineteen years, McKay documented how he charted a steady course through institutional storms...