Mill’s life was in many respects unsatisfying – riven with anxiety and trauma...

Eileen Boris illuminates the ILO's transformation in the context of the long fight for social justice...

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

In the twenty-five years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history...

Young reframes the Cristero war as a transnational conflict...

What’s the first image that comes to mind when you hear the words “Paris” and “photography”?

How did a Danish historian wind up with a human skull from colonial India in his University of London office

The political protests of the “Red Shirts” movement in Thailand in April-May 2010 ended in tragedy...

Alexander frames the book with the theoretical conundrum of representation...

Laderman exposes the way that imperial ambitions suffused the ideas and practices of turn-of-century humanitarian intervention...

Household Gods is a family biography that explores the Christian republicanism of John and Abigail Adams...

The story of the creation of the Book of Mormon has been told many times, and often ridiculed...

Mahalia Jackson, the great mid-twentieth century gospel singer, thought of herself as an embodiment of the history of African Americans in the United States...

As the wife of a Macedonian king and the mother of three sons who would succeed him, Eurydice played an important role in Macedonia at an important moment in the kingdom’s history...

Hale-Dorrell re-evaluates Khrushchev’s corn campaign as the cornerstone of his reformation programs...

"Habeas Corpus in Wartime" is a comprehensive history of the writ of habeas corpus in Anglo-America...

It is common to see science and religion portrayed as mutually exclusive and warring ways of viewing the world, but is that how actual scientists see it?

The king’s guards became increasingly nervous as they watched nearly 7,000 individuals march on Versailles on October 5, 1789...

DiGirolamo looks at the legion of children and teenagers who sold newspapers on city streets, moving trains, and even Civil War battlefields in the 19th and early 20th centuries...

The Wrong of Rudeness asks a key question for our times how do we interact with each other, especially in politically contentious situations?

Premo demonstrates a gradual shift from a justice-oriented system—focused on extralegal outcomes and casuistic jurisprudence—to a Enlightened law-oriented system...

In American While Black, Carter argues that immigration, both historically and in the contemporary moment,

Krutzsch argues that gay activists memorialized people like Shepard as part of a political strategy to present gays as similar to the country's dominant class of white, straight Christians...

Gorvine provides a multifaceted analysis of Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen (1859-1934), one of the most prominent modern representatives of the Tibetan Bön tradition...

James talks about the 1905 Galapagos Expedition organized by the California Academy of Sciences...