History: Specific Events & Topics

On 27 December 1973 the nightmare began: late that night German businessman Thomas Niedermayer was kidnapped from his home in Belfast. Never seen a...

This volume borrows its title from the first international Yiddish bestseller, Sholem Asch's epic trilogy Three Cities. Whereas Asch portrayed Jewi...

The British coal industry no longer exists and yet the figure of the coal miner lives on in the British cultural imagination. In feature films and ...

Four decades have passed since reports of a mysterious gay cancer first appeared in US newspapers. In the ensuing years, the pandemic that would c...

Offers an engaging account of the experiences of Jewish soldiers in the Union Army during the Civil War What was it like to be a Jew in Lincolns ar...

Beginning with a purchased shirt and ending with a handmade dress, Shirts Powdered Red shows how Haudenosaunee women and their work shaped their na...

Hypocrisy and Human Rights examines what human rights pressure does when it does not work. Repressive states with absolutely no intention of comply...

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This book is about the lives of 11-year-old children growing up in a Midlands city in the late 60s and early 70s. Based on interviews with their pa...

In dear elia Mimi Khúc revolutionizes how we understand mental health. Khúc traces the contemporary Asian American mental health crisis from the un...

In dear elia Mimi Khúc revolutionizes how we understand mental health. Khúc traces the contemporary Asian American mental health crisis from the un...

Beginning in the era of Manifest Destiny, U.S. settlers, writers, politicians, and boosters worked to bind California and Hawaii together in the Am...

How were indigenous social practices deemed queer and aberrant by colonial forces? In Queering Colonial Natal, T.J. Tallie travels to colonial Nata...

Home to Ellis Island, New Jersey has been the first stop for many immigrant groups for well over a century. Yet in this highly diverse state, some ...

What would it mean to get over slavery? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of ...

Heaven's Wrath explores the religious thought and religious rites of the early Dutch Atlantic world. D. L. Noorlander argues that the Reformed Chur...

In Policing the Frontier, the second book in the Police/Worlds series Mirco Göpfert explores what it means to be a gendarme investigating cases, wr...

This book follows the lives of female Jewish refugees who fled Nazi persecution and became nurses. Nursing was nominally a profession but with its ...

Travel through a gardens seasons toward healing, reclamation, and wholenessfor us, and for our beloved relative, the Earth   In this rich collecti...

Reveals the mass mobilization tactics that helped free Soviet Jews and reshaped the Jewish American experience from the Johnson era through the Rea...

The Story of the Country House is an authoritative and vivid account of the British country house, exploring how they have evolved with the changin...

In Women Money Power, financial journalist Josie Cox tells the compelling story of womens fight for financial freedom, the social and political hur...

How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the abstract? How do we have meaningful conversations...