History: Specific Events & Topics

One of the first books to examine the earliest indigenous slave trade in the Spanish Caribbean Captives of Conquest is one of the first books to e...

Revolutionary Stagecraft draws on a rich corpus of literary, historical, and technical materials to reveal a deep entanglement among technological ...

'At three in the morning I crept out of Carlsbad, they wouldn't have let me go if I hadn't. I wasn't going to be stopped, for it was time.' This i...

In his retelling of the boldness and tragedy of the Zhina uprising in Iran, Hamid Dabashi asks: What constitutes the success of revolutions and how...

An art historical epic for dangerous timesWhat do artworks look like in extreme cases of collective experience? What signals do artists send when e...

This book investigates the radical transformation of the relationship between Germany and France, neighbors whose border constituted one of the dee...

Over the course of a thirty-eight-year friendship, writer James Baldwin and painter Beauford Delaney shared their private lives and shaped one anot...

Over the course of a thirty-eight-year friendship, writer James Baldwin and painter Beauford Delaney shared their private lives and shaped one anot...