History: Specific Events & Topics

In France''s Third Republic, secularism was, for its adherents, a new faith, a civic religion founded on a rabid belief in progress and the Enli...

This is a book that evokes a time and place that no longer exists, but is central to the American experience. A past that is handed down to be reme...

In the earliest years of the 20th century, North American ballroom dancers favored the waltz or the polka. But then a new dance, the tango, brok...

Author and tennis historian Steve Flink profiles and ranks the greatest tennis matches in the history of the sport. Roger Federer, Billie Jean King...

A controversial figure for his views on manumission and his unorthodox marital arrangements, Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. (1765-1843) is mostly known tod...

This book posits that the American Revolution - waged to form a more perfect union - still raged long after the guns went silent. Eight major fugit...

This book looks at language in unexpected places. Drawing on a diversity of materials and contexts, including farewell addresses to British workers...

Since the second half of the twentieth century, there has been a commitment on the part of women writers and scholars to revise and rewrite the his...

In the 1920s, a revived Ku Klux Klan burst into prominence as a self-styled defender of American values, a magnet for white Protestant community fo...

This book situates its contemplation of the nineteenth-century Trinidadian landscape in the context of an emerging sub-field of Caribbean postcolon...

Today, the dominant model for Jewish education is the community-wide, technologically advanced day school, where the Judaic subjects are taught by ...

Contemporary American landscape is wrought with ongoing processes and phenomena of technicization observable at the intersections of multiple layer...

In the 1830s, the abolitionist movement gained remarkable momentum due in large measure to the establishment of the American Anti-Slavery Societ...

The family can be viewed as one of the links in a golden chain connecting individuals, the private sphere, civil society, and the democratic s...

From the mid-1890s a race was on between the merchant navies of the recently unified Germany, Britain and France. That race was to make the most lu...