History: Specific Events & Topics

Long recognized as Ireland's greatest demographic disaster in recent history, the Great Famine of 18451851 has shaped Irish identities around the w...

Long recognized as Ireland's greatest demographic disaster in recent history, the Great Famine of 18451851 has shaped Irish identities around the w...

The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. They leave behind a collective memory of segregation shaped ...

The Puritan Ideology of Mobility: Corporatism, the Politics of Place, and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650 examines the ideology that ...

Black Republicans left an indelible mark on the history of their party, the civil rights movement, and twentieth-century political development Refl...

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...

In the first detailed examination of Britain's transition to paper currency, Hiroki Shin explores how state, nation and community each played their...

How museums are changing to embrace a more inclusive vision of American artUS museums have faced increasing pressure to reckon with their histories...

The dramatic story of a pivotal figure in the Haitian Revolution, who shook the Atlantic world to its core Born to an enslaved mother in Grenada, H...

Do you want to play a game?Incarceration Games reexamines the complex history and troubled legacy of improvised, interactive role-playing experimen...

Bodies of Art, Bodies of Labour by Kate Beaton, award-winning author of Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands and Hark! A Vagrant, explores connections...

In two volumes, Judson Jeffries brings together essays on 21 accomplished and influential members of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., demonstrating ...

In two volumes, Judson Jeffries brings together essays on 21 accomplished and influential members of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., demonstrating ...

The book outlines the sociological arguments and political activities of the US pragmatist sociologist, Herbert Adolphus Miller (1875-1951). Miller...

A stunning art book showcasing The Singh Twins' 'Slaves of Fashion' series.This richly illustrated, artist-designed book showcases Slaves of Fashio...

A poignant and deeply researched history of gay oppression in the USSR.In 1934, Joseph Stalin enacted sodomy laws, unleashing a wave of brutal dete...