This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of t...

This critical interpretation of the origins of modern fiction follows the transformation of the p...

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms...

The Berlin Wall is arguably the most prominent symbol of the Cold War era. Its construction in 19...

In this ethnography of Navajo (Diné) popular music culture, Kristina M. Jacobsen examines questio...

The Colorado River region looms large in the history of the American West, vitally important in t...

For fifteen years, food writer Belinda Ellis traveled around the country for the White Lily(R) fl...

Magic City is the story of one of American music's essential unsung places: Birmingham, Alabama, ...

'In 1867, Frances Anne Rollin, a Black writer and teacher from South Carolina, traveled to Boston...

Good Parents, Better Homes, and Great Schools examines how white residential developers, planning...

'Los Angeles in the late nineteenth century was bustling with the rise of industrialization, but ...

'No Race, No Country presents a major reconsideration of the breakthrough African American author...

'Los Angeles in the late nineteenth century was bustling with the rise of industrialization, but ...

Examines how white residential developers, planning consultants, and their allies in government s...

'Lawrence Thomas Guyot Jr. (1939-2012), known simply as 'Guyot' (pronounced ghee-aught), was a pi...

For centuries we've believed that work was where you learned discipline, initiative, honesty, sel...

In this splendid cookbook, bicultural cook Sandra Gutierrez blends ingredients, traditions, and c...

Frank Porter Graham (1886-1972) was one of the most consequential white southerners of the twenti...

Award-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and compl...

This book 'explores the legacy of black college football, taking as its central figure one of the...

'Amid a national housing affordability crisis with political and social implications, Washington,...

At the height of the civil rights movement, Charles C. Diggs Jr. (1922-1998) was the consummate p...

Latin America has traditionally imposed the strictest limits on legal abortion in the democratic ...

'When eight-year-old Amy Erdman Farrell moved with her family to Akron, Ohio, in 1972, she found ...

Chronicling the rise and fall of North Carolina's fusion movement, this book illuminates an intri...

'During the COVID-19 pandemic, commentators opined that the high concentration of African America...

The promise of Reconstruction sparked a transformative era in American history as free and newly ...

Spanning the 1720s through the end of the Civil War, this book explores how free and enslaved Bla...

'Histories of AIDS in the United States typically consider San Francisco and New York the epicent...

In 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American War and dramatically reshaped...

'This novel is one of the most clear-eyed and compelling works of the Great Depression. As Marge ...

'During the Civil War, the utility and widespread availability of opium and morphine made opiates...

In the 1820s, there was a little-known quest to unite the world by building a waterway between th...

'During the American Civil War, clothing became central to the ways people waged war and experien...

'Inspired by the horrors of the Greensboro Massacre, Cris South penned Clenched Fists, Burning Cr...

'For centuries, Urdu-speaking poets and their audiences have gathered for mushåa°irahs, literary ...

In 2022, journalists announced the impending economic death of a small Mexican town. Pisté, gatew...

There is a complicated history of racism and psychiatric healthcare in the Deep South states of G...

'American football was a violent sport from its beginning as a college game in the 1870s and 1880...

This sweeping history tells a story of fits and starts of Mexican Americans' interactions with la...

In 1822, Black Charlestonians attempted to overthrow slavery. They were exposed before they could...

'Alice Gerrard, an award-winning and storied folk and bluegrass musician for over 50 years, is on...

'In the years after World War II, American evangelicals flocked to the once-sleepy mountain town ...

Historians largely understand Native American education through the Indian boarding schools and r...

'Women's history traveled a long and fascinating path before it became a respected and recognized...

'Shifting the focus of AIDS history away from the coasts to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St...

In 1877, the atmosphere in Russia was highly contentious. Amid war with the Ottoman Empire, the n...

Naturalist, forager, and educator Maria Pinto offers a stunning debut book that uncovers strange ...