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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Cremins explores the history of Billy Batson, a boy who met a wizard that allowed him to transform into a superhero. When Billy says, “Shazam!” he becomes Captain Marvel...

John Dryden is often regarded as one of the most conservative writers in later seventeenth-century England, a time-serving “trimmer” who abandoned his early commitments to the English Republic to become the poet laureate and historiographer royal of Charles II’s new regime...

Erika recounts the special relationship between two intellectual juggernauts, Huxley and Osmond, and their discussions about drugs, addiction, and death and dying...

One of the first and most famous of Christian martyrs was Perpetua, who died in Carthage in the early 3rd century CE.

Grasso provides an in-depth look at O'Keeffe's ambivalent relationship with feminism from her early beginnings as a New Woman of the 1910s, to the support she received from women to become a national icon for feminism...

A necessary volume for understanding the influence of World War I on Hitler’s thinking, this work is also an eye-opening reappraisal of major events like the invasion of Russia and the battle for Normandy...

A free black woman from Connecticut, Jane Manning James positioned herself at the center of LDS history with uncanny precision...

John Owen is one of the most significant seventeenth-century Protestant theologians...

Slate explores the ways that Gandhi linked his diet to nonviolent political action through protesting salt taxes, fasting for peace, and abstaining from chocolate produced by slave-like labor...