History: Specific Events & Topics

Mirza `Abdul Qadir-e Bidel (1054/1644-1133/1720) is the most significant literary figure from 18th-century India. He played a vital role in strengt...

Grease, Tell Me More, Tell Me More is a fabulous rockin and rollin origin story with every juicy inspiration that went into creating it. . . . A mu...

In Infrastructures of Impunity Elizabeth F. Drexler argues that the creation and persistence of impunity for the perpetrators of the Cold War Indon...

Women in the Tudor age are often overshadowed by their male counterparts. Even those of royalty were deemed inferior to males. Whilst women may hav...

Despite several decades of scholarship on African diasporic religion, Voodoo remains underexamined, and the few books published on the topic contai...

The release of the song Hound Dog in 1953 marked a turning point in American popular culture, and throughout its history, the hit ballad bridged di...

In this volume of previously unpublished photographs David Reed records traction-engine rallies from the late 1960s through to the early 1980s. The...

When Shriley Chisholm was asked why she would dare run for president, her response was, why not her?Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm rose from being...

An account of how Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch promulgated an inclusive vision of Judaism in the context of advancing the civic equality of German J...

An account of how Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch promulgated an inclusive vision of Judaism in the context of advancing the civic equality of German J...

The study of islands is booming. Small wonder: islands have played a key role in the history of continents, have been crucial locales of state-maki...

The study of islands is booming. Small wonder: islands have played a key role in the history of continents, have been crucial locales of state-maki...

2024 Spur Award Finalist 2024 Jon Gjerde Prize Honorable Mention for best book in Midwestern HistoryThe First Migrants recounts the largely unknown...

No one present at the Battle of Cape Lopez in 1722 could have known that they were on the edge of history. There was no way to predict just how mon...

Now in its fourth edition, P.M. Jones The French Revolution has been extensively revised and incorporates the most recent research on race, religio...