Wilde shows that support for contraception among some of America’s most prominent religious groups was tied to white supremacist views of race, immigration, and manifest destiny....

Webel tells a history of colonial interventions among three communities of the Great Lakes region of East Africa...

In connecting these threads, McIlwain demonstrates the centrality of African Americans to both the history and future of the Internet...

This book sits right at the intersection of all three of these subfields and contributes to our understanding of the lived experience of religion, the lived experience of gender, ideas about ‘nature,’ and, of course, the history of medicine...

The book offers a comprehensive discussion of conducting research on online talk...

Dr. James Burt believed women’s bodies were broken, and only he could fix them....

Butler explores what might happen if Black people in the United States merged technology and spirituality in their fight towards materializing liberating realities...

In this New Books Network interview, we speak about the political, industrial, and scientific changes that need to occur by 2050 to solve climate change, as well as the importance of focusing on real solutions rather than wallowing in fear....

Drinot studies the interplay of sexuality, society, and the state in Peru in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...

Design justice demands a deep understanding of the community and its needs, engagement with community members, and a recognition of their expertise, along with reciprocation of value....

Kettler charts the impact that smell had on the making of race and justifications for enslavement in the Atlantic world....

To understand our past and provide hope for our future Sandra takes readers around the world to explore water projects....

What does the horizon of science look like? Who are the scientists that are making it happen?

Dunbar-Hester investigates how open-technology communities are considering the question of diversity and inclusion.

Reid these vessels underwent considerable adaptation over the course of the 17th and 18th centuries in response to evolving technologies and the demands of their industry...

Will’s book is an ethnography of taxi-moto drivers in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital city...

Lean offers a new understanding of industrialization, going beyond material factors to show the central role of culture and knowledge production in technological and industrial change....

By interrogating the Boasian intervention into the idea of biological race, Anderson shows how, despite their progressive and anti-racist intentions, Boas and ‘the Boasians’ naturalised the idea of the United States as a white nation...

Sáenz follows the trajectory of physicians in their quest for the professionalization of medicine in Mexico...

Williams explores contemporary worries about eating through the lens of science and medicine to show us how appetite—once a matter of personal inclination—became an object of science....

Fay Bound Alberti argues that loneliness is not an ahistorical, universal phenomenon. It is, in fact, a modern emotion: before 1800, its language did not exist...

When we talk about technology we always talk about the future—which makes it hard to figure out how to get there...

Why do some countries pass legislation regulating carbon or protecting the environment while others do not?

David Kaiser is a truly unique scholar: he is simultaneously a physics researcher and a historian of science whose writing beautifully melds the past and future of science....

Plotch discusses the problems of uneven funding, high costs, and political machinations that hobble the subway system-- and how, on Second Avenue, they were finally overcome...