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...

Ambassador to the United Nations, and mayor of Atlanta, provides a foreword.

For fifteen years, food writer Belinda Ellis traveled around the country for the White Lily® flou...

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

This illuminating biography of our 39th president by an acclaimed historian of American religion ...

In the first-ever narrative history of this important American watercourse, John S. Sledge weaves...

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

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

'The nineteenth-century Kentucky antislavery reformer Cassius Marcellus Clay is generally remembe...

'Migration between the United States and Mexico is often compared to the river that runs along th...

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

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

'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 ...

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

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

'This book offers a groundbreaking perspective on the 1973 Chilean coup, highlighting Brazil's pi...

'Composer and sound artist Brian Harnetty explores the remarkable everyday stories of sound recor...

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

'In the Southeastern United States of the late 1970s, a regional network of radical communal gay ...

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

The first comprehensive study of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham

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

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

Ingredient by ingredient, dish by dish, take a tantalizing tour of Georgia's signature foods

'An artist's guide to creating expressively and living meaningfully. 'Being an artist is a joyful...

The first full-length biography of one of South Carolina's most significant African American visu...

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 (1888 – 1972) was one of the most consequential white southerners of the twen...

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,...

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 ...

'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...

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

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