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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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)...

In the years following World War I, the New Orleans French Quarter attracted artists and writers with its low rents, faded charm, and colorful street life...

This memoir by one of the foremost scholars of the Soviet period spans three continents and more than half a century...

Harriet Tubman is best known as one of the most famous conductors on the Underground Railroad...

Can justice heal? Must there be justice in order to heal? Is there such a thing as justice, something to be striven for regardless of context?

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

Mill’s life was in many respects unsatisfying – riven with anxiety and trauma...

Wang Gungwu has long been recognized as a world authority on the history of China and the overseas Chinese...

As O’Callaghan details, many of the code's provisions were drawn up in response to the problems Alfonso dealt with as king...

Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848..

Buccola uses the iconic debate between Baldwin and Buckley which took place at the Cambridge Union in February 1965 as an entry point into their own lives and their place within the post black freedom struggle...

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

Greer provides a fascinating look at a trio of black imagemakers – publisher John H. Johnson, PR executive Moss Kendrix, and photographer Gordon Parks...

Oropeza sheds new light on one of Chicano history’s most notorious figures...