History: Specific Events & Topics

American environmentalism is defined by its icons: the Crying Indian, who shed a tear in response to litter and pollution; the cooling towers of ...

The papers in this volume were among the contributions presented at an international symposium, Ancient Marriage in Myth and Reality, which was hel...

The field of Cold War studies has recently undergone a cultural turn. Scholars from many disciplines outside - but increasingly also from within - ...

A bracing account of abuses of power and corruption in the criminal justice system. The Guardian From the fearless defense a...

In 1856, just months after Britain and Siam had finalised the historic Bowring trade treaty that would prevent the countries colonisation, the viol...

First published by TCU Press in 1947, Colby Halls book History of Texas Christian University: A College of the Cattle Frontier is the story of the ...

A dramatic response to American racism occurred in Los Angeles during 1855 when eighteen-year-old Francisco P. Ramírez published a Spanish-language...

Tsering Woeser and Wang Lixiong are widely regarded as the most eloquent, insightful writers on contemporary Tibet. Their reportage on the economic...

Offering a rare pan-Caribbean perspective on a region that has moved from the very center of the western world to its periphery, The Caribbean: The...

SHORTLISTED for The Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2021 An ambitious and vital novel with an epic sweep: a complex, timely story about ...

The Wat Thai Buddhist Temple in Silicon Valley was founded in 1983 by a group of predominantly middle-class men and women with different ethnic and...

In what may have been the single largest outbreak of vigilante violence in American history, forty suspected Unionists were hanged at Gainesville,...

The headline of the Variety extra on October 27, 1926, proclaimed Vitaphone1 Thrills L.A.! Vitaphone, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. formed in ass...

In Bronx Faces and Voices, sixteen men and women tell their personal, uncensored stories of the New York City boroughbefore, during, and after the ...

This book follows the author's experiences in the United States Navy from 1966 through 1972. They include a personal background, boot camp, elec...

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...