History: Specific Events & Topics

In historical studies, 'collective memory' is most often viewed as the product of nationalizing strategies carried out by political élites in the h...

Both historical study and ancestral narrative, The Harness Makers Dream follows the story of Ukrainian immigrant Nathan Kallisons journey to the Un...

What are the implications of colonialism for a theory of global justice today? What does rectificatory justice mean in the light of colonialism? Wh...

A colorful look at how modern presidents play sports, have used sports to play politics, and what our fan-in-chief can often tell us about our nati...

Take a swig of the Wild, Wild West with 60 historically inspired cattle kingdom cocktails.Based on trail life after the Civil War, the cow towns at...

The Age of Revolutions has been celebrated for the momentous transition from absolute monarchies to representative governments and the creation of ...

Restores the river to its central place in the citys historyWith bountiful salmon and fertile plains, the Duwamish River has drawn people to its sh...

What does it mean to talk about everyday racism, and why should we do so? Racism and Everyday Life brings together the sociologies of racism and ev...

Reflecting on a series of ethical and moral questions significant to contemporary Spanish culture, Cristina Sánchez-Conejero analyzes several issue...

Women, Reform, and Resistance documents the challenges faced by Irish women from 1850 to 1950 and their complex reactions. By investigating prisons...

Asia, Modernity, and the Pursuit of the Sacred examines a large number of Europeans who, disillusioned with western culture and religion after Worl...

The Age of Revolutions has been celebrated for the momentous transition from absolute monarchies to representative governments and the creation of ...

As World War II raged in North Africa, General Irwin Rommel was guided by an uncanny sense of his enemies' plans and weaknesses. In the summer of 1...

During the first half of the twentieth century, a group of collectors and creators dedicated themselves to documenting the history of African Ameri...

The rule of law, an ideology of equality and universality that justified Britain's eighteenth-century imperial claims, was the product not of abstr...

Learning from children about citizenship status and how it shapes their schooling   There is a persistent assumption in the field of education tha...

WINNER OF THE BIOGRAPHERS' CLUB SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE'Full of love, wisdom and yearning' Kit de WaalA coming-of-age story set i...

In Between Banat Mejdulene Bernard Shomali examines homoeroticism and nonnormative sexualities between Arab women in transnational Arab literature,...