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...

This powerful book tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, a Holocaust survivor who transformed th...

Winner of the Clinton Jackson Coley Book Award from the Alabama Historical Association

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...

This 'incomparable guide to Southern cuisine', according to Time magazine, includes a preliminary...

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

Viola Franziska Müller examines runaways who camouflaged themselves among the free Black populati...

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 thirty-ninth president by an acclaimed historian of American r...

'On July 3, 1972, twenty-four hippies from Clearwater, Florida, set up tents and settled in for t...

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

'In the segregated American South, policing was war. Ungovernable police discretion came to the b...

Presbyterian Church missionaries and the theology of race, enslavement, and Native American removal

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 one...

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 ...

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

Prior to the American Revolution, the urban centers of colonial North America had little direct e...

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

Wyatt Outlaw’s story was one of Black success: He was a Union League leader, business owner, and ...

Whatever you call them—crayfish, crawfish, or crawdads—these small crustaceans are a vital piece ...

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

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

Mid-twentieth-century student activism is a pivotal chapter in American history. While college ac...

How public memory informs our understanding of gender and race in the Civil War Era and beyond

Military biography of Lt. Gen. Richard H. Anderson, whose career led him from West Point to Mexic...

An insider's guide to the government of the Palmetto State

An insider's guide to the government of the Palmetto State

How the Republican Party transformed from the Party of Lincoln to the Party of Lee

The lyrical and political power of nineteenth-century women reformers' life writing