Braun documents the history and present-day use of an everyday medical instrument, the spirometer, which measures a person’s lung capacity...

Earl Campbell was a force in American football...

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

Inspired by brave fugitives who escaped slavery and the cultural craze that was "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," the North rose up to battle slavery, ultimately waging the bloody Civil War.

Alou started playing organized baseball late in life (early teens), endured poverty and hardship in his native Dominican Republic, and then helped to break down barriers of language and perception throughout his long career on the field and in the dugout...

Scofield argues that rodeo performance has also long-been a means of asserting “Western-ness” for people excluded from narratives about the region...

What are the true sources of inequality?

Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination...

The word “ghetto” has taken on different meanings since its coinage in the 16th century...

Wheat argues that the extensive participation of Luso-Africans, Latinized Africans, and free people of color made possible Spain’s colonization of the Caribbean...

Gonaver discusses the Eastern Lunatic Asylum in Virginia, and the roles that race, the institution of slavery, and slave labor played in the development of psychiatric diagnosis and care through the nineteenth century and beyond...

Tell analyses acts of remembering Emmett following his brutal murder in the 1960s until the present day...

"Integration Now" explores how studying the case Alexander v. Holmes (1969) enhances understandings of the history underlying school desegregation...

What happens when particular groups of historians do not feel like they have full access to archival material?

White chronicles the development of black college football in the twentieth century, and is among the first comprehensive histories of black college athletics...

Eidsheim contents that vocal timbre is an even stronger marker for race and gender than physical appearance...

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

Driskell traces the roots of black protest politics to early 20th century Atlanta and the fight for equal education...

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...

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

Hajnal finds that race more than class or any other demographic factor shapes not only how Americans vote but also who wins and who loses...

"Black Freedom" features the work of writers, artists, and activists, as they imagine gender justice through the framework of Wakanda...

Dollinger challenges widely held beliefs about the black-Jewish alliance in American politics...

Shortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area’s indigenous peoples as slaves...

Greta de Jong discusses rural organizing, social justice movements, and the connected histories of the Civil Rights Movement and the War on Poverty in the US South...