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Mark Doty, the recipient of a 1994 Whiting Writers' Award, is the author of two previous books of...

For much of Indiana's history, its distinctiveness has lain in its typicality. It has embodied--a...

Highlighting the burgeoning country music entertainment industry during the years from 1950 to 19...

'Once a showcase for amateur athletics, the Olympic Games have become a global entertainment colo...

Hannah Durkin is a lecturer in literature and film at Newcastle University. She is a coeditor of ...

'Founded in 1975, the non-partisan National Alliance of Black Feminists (NABF) played a critical ...

'Randy Travis's 1986 breakthrough put him at the forefront of Nashville's new traditionalist soun...

'An advantageous location and entrepreneurial passion helped fuel Chicago's transformation from a...

'Played by both migrants and native-born Americans, soccer created communities across the United ...

'Founded in 1975, the non-partisan National Alliance of Black Feminists (NABF) played a critical ...

'Played by both migrants and native-born Americans, soccer created communities across the United ...

'An advantageous location and entrepreneurial passion helped fuel Chicago's transformation from a...

'An important presence through centuries of musical and social change, gamelan angklung is a smal...

A new generation of video standards promises lossless storage of digital objects for future gener...

'Black virality refers to the spread of Black performance that becomes uncontrollable because of ...

'Signed into law in 2014, the Marco Civil da Internet (Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the I...

'Malay Muslim women in Singapore cultivate piety by attending popular Islamic self-help classes. ...

'Black virality refers to the spread of Black performance that becomes uncontrollable because of ...

'Signed into law in 2014, the Marco Civil da Internet (Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the I...

'One of Abraham Lincoln's staunchest and most effective allies, Judge David Davis masterminded th...

'Malay Muslim women in Singapore cultivate piety by attending popular Islamic self-help classes. ...

A new generation of video standards promises lossless storage of digital objects for future gener...

'An important presence through centuries of musical and social change, gamelan angklung is a smal...

Taking the train to nature in Chicagoland Beyond the steel and asphalt await natural spaces that ...

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award

Struggles over power and justice in the Clear Fork Valley

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'Stories of encounters with the Three Nephites, immortal saint-like figures, dominate the folklor...

Dolly Parton has enjoyed seemingly effortless success as a singer, songwriter, movie and televisi...

'Despite significant challenges and powerful opposition, Black female teachers stood at the foref...

Playing every angle for a shot at the big time Chicagoans venture to area pool halls to perfect t...

Professional boxers practice their trade within an ostensibly apolitical arena. In reality, howev...

How do the stories we tell about Midwestern places influence or reflect our experiences? How is t...

A superstar in both football and track and field Sol Butler pioneered the parlaying of sports fam...

From the game's early days, college football and a strain of muscular Christianity built a mutual...

A quintessentially American saga, the life of Joseph Smith offers believers and non-believers ali...

Little-known and hard to find, the tiny mushrooms that grow above the treeline offer mycophiles r...

'Sallie Martin combined fame as a performer with a far-sighted business acumen that brought Black...

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Known best for articulating the propaganda of the deed, Johann Most was and still is caricatured ...

'Though used by millions as a guide for how to live one's life, the Book of Mormon's links with c...

In the 1890s, the bicycle became a sensation that impacted the whole of society. People flocked t...

'Though used by millions as a guide for how to live one's life, the Book of Mormon's links with c...

'Migrants' and refugees' stories have become an essential part of the public debate around immigr...

In Man, Play and Games, Caillois investigates the phenomenon of play, which he describes as 'an o...

Ron Formisano is the William T. Bryan Chair of American History and professor emeritus of history...

Robert B. Winans is a professor emeritus of American literature and folklore at Gettysburg College.