History: Specific Events & Topics

Uncovers sources from the parish pauper to the gentlewoman to consider relationships with clothing across the social hierarchy in the long eighteen...

This is not a book about archaeological sites. We shall come across flint tools, bones, skulls, surprising structures, and layers of earth that we ...

This volume examines the influence of African Catholics on the historical development of Black Christianity in America during the seventeenth centu...

A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, A...

Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen is a wide-ranging history of over seven decades of Israeli cinema.  The only book...

The Picky Eagle explains why the United States stopped annexing territory by focusing on annexation's domestic consequences, both political and nor...

A renowned expert on genocide argues that there is a real risk of violent atrocities happening in the United States If many people were shocked by...

How Judaism and food are intertwined Judaism is a religion that is enthusiastic about food. Jewish holidays are inevitably celebrated through eati...

Michael Barnett, who worked at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations from 1993 to 1994, covered Rwanda for much of the genocide. Based on his firs...

I'm not a good mother - not what Dr. Spock calls a slow mother who leaves her chores to make sure junior gets the right treatment. (Dorothy Wright,...

Across history, the ideas and practices of male identity have varied much between time and place: masculinity proves to be a slippery concept, not ...

Many people who know the story of the 1916 Rising have heard the harrowing account of the wedding of Grace Gifford and Joseph Plunkett in Kilmainha...

The image of the harp - symbolic of the political and cultural landscape of Ireland for centuries - evokes strong sentiments in the collective Iris...

Histories you can trust. In 14 original essays, The Oxford History of the Book reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from the a...

Capturing the history of Kashmir and its cultural and social evolution, Nyla Ali Kahn deconstructs the life of her grandmother and other women of h...

Over the past five centuries, advances in Western understanding of and control over the material world have strongly influenced European responses ...

The Tastemaker charts the singular life of a man who has been at the beating heart of music's most iconic moments for over sixty years. Leaving sch...

Celebrate the LGTBQ community with this small but perfectly formed guide to Pride. What began as a protest for gay rights following the Stonewall ...