History of the Americas

Exploring the disability history of slavery Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery and white supremacy by linking blackness to disa...

This book examines the history of antisemitism in the United States and Germany in a novel way by placing the two countries side by side for a sust...

Enriching the existing scholarship on this important exhibition, Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today (195053), this book shows the dynam...

The history of private lives of the first and second generations of Polish immigrants in the United States is viewed from the perspective of migran...

This pioneering translation of Alfonso Múneras seminal work El fracaso de la nación presents a new interpretation and innovative perspective on can...

This study positions four musicals and their associated artists as mobilizers of defiant joy in relation to trauma and healing in Puerto Rico. This...

In this book, Chloë Rae Edmonson analyzes performance sites from throughout U.S. history to reveal the material ways that drinking culture is perfo...

The 1850s United States witnessed a far-reaching political, social, and economic crisis. Symptomatic of this, a wide range of narrative fiction fro...

In the mid-1970s, the CIA and KGB watched Karel Koecher closely-they were both convinced he was working for the enemy. And they were both right. Tr...

A reinterpretation of one of America's most notorious lynchings The 1918 lynching of Mary Turner by a white mob in Brooks County, Georgia, is remem...

An inspiring reminder of the incredible resource that is our public lands. Brendan Leonard, author of The Camping Life and Surviving the Great Outd...