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 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...

'In the years after World War II, American evangelicals flocked to the once-sleepy mountain town ...

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

This transformative book examines men's and women's changing attitudes toward sex and gender in t...

Despite twenty-first-century fears of nuclear conflagrations with North Korea, Russia, and Iran, ...

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

'Located just across the Potomac River from Washington, DC, Alexandria, Virginia, has long held a...

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

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

In this splendid cookbook, bicultural cook Sandra Gutierrez blends ingredients, traditions, and c...

This book 'explores the legacy of black college football, taking as its central figure one of the...

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

'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 the...

'During the Civil War, the US government abolished slavery without reimbursing enslavers, diminis...

'In the period between the twentieth century's two world wars, Black and Muslim people from the U...

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

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

Civil War Americans, like people today, used the past to understand and traverse their turbulent ...

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

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 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 experienc...

Inspired by the horrors of the Greensboro Massacre, Cris South penned Clenched Fists, Burning Cro...

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

'For centuries, Urdu-speaking poets and their audiences have gathered for mushåa°irahs, literary ...

'American football was a violent sport from its beginning as a college game in the 1870s and 1880...

In 2022, journalists announced the impending economic death of a small Mexican town. Pisté, gatew...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...