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 the nation's so-called heartland, racism is sometimes subtler than in other parts of the coun...

'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...

A gripping portrait of pioneering freedom fighters that is both deeply intimate and a fierce call...

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

Reveals how after Hurricane Katrina, immigrant communities have culturally and politically reshap...

Nineteenth-century America saw profound changes in the ways people viewed their bodies, their hea...

People living in the nineteenth-century United States saw shocking upheavals in both the economy ...

'Between May 1 and May 22, 1863, Union soldiers marched nearly 200 miles through the hot, humid c...

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...

Pilgrimage is one of the most significant ritual duties for Muslims, entailing the visitation and...

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

Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as Americans increasingly came into cont...

In this transnational account of black protest, Nicholas Grant examines how African Americans eng...

At the close of the nineteenth century, the Democratic Party in North Carolina engineered a white...

Challenging incarceration and policing was central to the postwar Black Freedom Movement. In this...

The stereotypical hillbilly figure in popular culture provokes a range of responses, from bemused...

Sweet Chariot is a pathbreaking analysis of slave families and household composition in the ninet...

Letters have long been read as primary sources for biography andhistory, but their performative, ...

Beginning with the introduction of abortion law in the nineteenth century, this reader includes i...

German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism explores the failure of Germany's largest politica...

Late nineteenth-century San Francisco was an ethnically diverse but male-dominated society bustli...

The Gymnasium of Virtue is the first book devoted exclusively to the study of education in ancien...

Atlantic Empires of France and Spain is a comparative study of the colonies of Cape Breton and Cu...

Come explore the geology of Florida's Gulf Coast beaches, from a bird's-eye view down to a crab's...

By the end of World War I, the skyrocketing divorce rate in the United States had generated a dee...

This book, a substantial contribution to the history of the relations between the Soviet Union an...

The author of this challenging book does not discount the ties that hold the South to a one-party...

Calogeras's book occupies a unique place among the histories of Brazil. Comprising the story of B...

Slavery Remembered is the first major attempt to analyze the slave narratives gathered as part of...

Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small ...

This moving account of the many different aspects of the work of a child psychiatry consultant in...

One of the few books concerned solely with the humor of a single state, this volume includes samp...