History: Specific Events & Topics

In the early Middle Ages, the conversion of the early English kingdoms acted as a catalyst for significant social and cultural change. One of the m...

Celebrities live their lives in constant dialogue with stories about them. But when these stories are shaped by durable racist myths, they wield un...

Public disenchantment with and distrust of American government is at an all-time high and who can blame them? In the face of widespread challengese...

Cultural Revolution Culture, often denigrated as nothing but propaganda, was liked not only in its heyday but continues to be enjoyed today. A Cont...

This book provides the first national study of this intense and challenging struggle which disrupted and refashioned institutions in almost every s...

This book examines the artistic use of freak shows between 1900-1950. During this period, the freak show shifted from a highly popular and profitab...

Europe's infrastructure both united and divided peoples and places via economic systems, crises, and wars. Some used transport, communication, and...

The book shows how teachers struggled to liberate their country's education system from the legacy of dictatorship, combining a general evaluation ...

The 2011 split of Sudan and the conflicts that have followed make it a case of ongoing significance for understanding state-building in Africa. Exa...

Despite its modest size, the republic of Suriname is today the site of many distinctive processes of globalization. This intersectional study tease...