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While the war on terror has been America's largest and most publicized attempt to root out foreig...

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In the first narrative history in English of Mexico's contemporary press, Andrew Paxman recounts ...

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The memory of the long civil rights movement often celebrates white men and women who drew on the...

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'In 2022, journalists announced the impending economic death of a small Mexican town. Piste, gate...

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

Ethical and moral concerns about food and diet commonly feature in individuals' religious identit...

During the interwar years, the discourse of regional planning profoundly reformulated the spatial...

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

Delving into the intersection of television entertainment and American politics during the 1970s,...

Political rhetoric often portrays Mexico as an inherently violent nation. Available now for the f...

In this compelling narrative of discovery set in Japan's remote Dewa Sanzan mountain range, Shayn...

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

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

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

The surprise Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979 shocked the international community. The two com...

Kottick presents technical information in an accessible, but entertaining, way: the forms and sty...

The devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He's not just the ...

While most historians of the Vietnam War focus on the origins of U.S. involvement and the America...

The first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century Ku Klux Klan since the 1970s, Ku-Kl...

Centering Pakistan in a story of transnational Islam stretching from South Asia to the Middle Eas...

Over the course of his long career, legendary bluesman William 'Big Bill' Broonzy (1893?1958) hel...

The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been und...

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Over the last twenty years, type 2 diabetes skyrocketed to the forefront of global public health ...