Charles Lord Cornwallis’s campaign through the southern American colonies came to an ignominious close on October 19, 1781, on an open field outside Yorktown, Virginia...

Lightfoot traces the ways Antiguans and Barbudans experienced freedom in the immediate years before and decades after British emancipation in 1834...

Rocklin draws on colonial archives and ethnographic work in this pioneering examination of the realities of indentured workers in colonial Trinidad...

Chhabria argues that cities are not naturally occurring spaces or innocent administrative categories marked by lines on a map: instead they are spaced produced by constant labors of inclusion and exclusion which serve to keep capital flowing while stigmatizing the laboring poor...

Zevin helps us see what he calls “really existing liberalism”––that is, a liberalism that rooted for empire, embraced finance, and has always wielded an ambivalence towards democracy...

Why was mass democratization – abolishing property and tax qualifications – accompanied by the mass disenfranchisement of black, male citizens?

Stephens examines how Islam and Muslims were regulated within legal domains that managed various spheres of life...

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

How does music help us to understand the contemporary city?

The British romantic poet William Wordsworth is best known for his moving evocations of nature,..

Elmer's anthology provides access into a world of religious practice that is otherwise lost – many puritans refusing on principle to put their prayers to paper...

Newcombe charts the trajectory of how yoga in became mainstream in Britain to the point of being taught to thousands of middle-class women in adult education classes...

wift argues that the left is dominated by what he terms hobbyists and performative radicals...

Block painstakingly recovers the origins of baseball games through a close reading of a wide variety of 18th-century sources including newspaper clippings, novels, and diaries...

McKercher offers a strong rebuttal to the Canadian-history-is-boring thesis...

Brown expands our understanding of the relationship between European, African, and American history, as it speaks to our understanding of wars of terror today....

What is the relationship between inequality and classical music?

Of the many thousands who participated in the American and French revolutions in the late 18th century, only a handful played roles in both events...

"Faithful Fighters" is a powerful and brilliant meditation on the impossibility of modern colonial power to canonize religion and religious identity...

Redwood gives us fresh insights into why the populist movements and parties have been winning elections...

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus when she was nineteen years old on a bet...

The former West German chancellor Helmut Schmidt grew up as a devout Anglophile, yet he clashed heavily and repeatedly with his British counterparts Wilson, Callaghan, and Thatcher during his time in office between 1974 and 1982..

Lee recovers the forgotten experiences of multiracial peoples in the British colonies of Nyasaland, Southern and Northern Rhodesia...

Who or what originated and/or caused the Great War from breaking out in July 1914?