Merritt discusses the intersections of race, class, politics, and slavery in the pre-Civil War South....

Byrd examines the multitude of responses by African American leaders towards Haiti following the Civil War and going into the 20th Century...

LeFlouria discusses the lives, labors, and legacies of incarcerated black women and the convict lease system in the early 20th century South...

We know from this book that anger is animating politics, but the ways that anger is expressed and translated into political participation, varies greatly by race, gender, and age...

Davis combines the personal with the national in telling the story of allotment in Indian Territory/Oklahoma...

Maroons—enslaved Africans who escaped and formed autonomous communities—dominated Dominica’s hilly interior for centuries...

Hild and Merritt discuss the nexus of race, class and power in the history of labor in the South, and how a new generation of southern labor scholars are changing our understanding of labor's past, present and future in the region...

Earl Campbell was a force in American football...

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

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?

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...