For much of the last century, ballet class has been a rite of passage for millions of little girls in the United States.

Michelson and Harrison examine what tactics are effective in changing public opinion regarding transgender people...

Renfro narrates how the bereaved parents of missing and slain children turned their grief into a mass movement and, alongside journalists and policymakers from both major political parties, propelled a moral panic...

García evaluates how the end of the Cold War brought new and unanticipated challenges to upholding this commitment from 1989 to the present...

Adamson and Ganeri survey the breadth and depth of Indian philosophical traditions...

The resurgence of the radical Right in America and Europe has drawn attention to the existence of political philosophers and writers whose names are only sometimes familiar and whose thought is generally unknown...

Lacey brings together philosophical, historical and socio-legal methods to give an account of the ever changing notion of responsibility in criminal law...

Scott focuses on reconstructions of Buddhist monasteries in modern China that took place in the period from 1866 to 1966,..

Do nonhuman animals have phenomenally conscious mental states?

Rahemtullah offers a compelling comparative analysis of the works of four Muslim scholars of Islam – Asghar Ali Engineer, Farid Esack, Amina Wadud, and Asma Barlas...

What is the relationship between inequality and classical music?

Fair reveals a little-known aspect of how LeT functions in Pakistan and beyond, by translating and commenting upon a range of publications produced and disseminated by Dar-ul-Andlus, the publishing wing of LeT..

Austerlitz, Wagram, Borodino, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo: these are the battles most closely associated with the Napoleonic Wars. But how did this period of nearly continuous warfare affect the world beyond Europe?

Matzko details its emergence in the 1950s and the response to its rise by some of the leading political and religious institutions of the era...

Asseraf examines the workings of the “news ecosystem” in Algeria from the 1880s to the beginning of the Second World War...

Finocchiaro shows that there were (and are) really two Galileo “affairs.”

Cook investigates how and why women have developed the roles they have, and interrogates US counterterrorism practices in key countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yemen...

Americans since the beginning of their history, have constantly made moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through and assessed...

Dienstag considers the interaction between our experiences in watching films and our positions as citizens in a representative democracy...

Is a rising power – like China – a threat to the world order?

Neely and Hou-Lin explore the rise of finance in American life over the last forty years and its implications for American workers, families, and economies...

Since 2008, the Tea Party and the Resistance have caused some major shake-ups for the Republican and Democratic parties...

Galea examines what Americans miss when they fixate on healthcare: health...

Byrne places Algeria at the center of many of the twentieth-century’s international dynamics: decolonization, the Cold War, détente,..

While armies have seized enemy records and rare texts as booty throughout history, it was only during World War II that an unlikely band of librarians, archivists, and scholars traveled abroad to collect books and documents to aid the military cause...