History: Specific Events & Topics

During the 18th century, American Puritans introduced migrant and enslaved Africans to the Exodus story. In contrast to the ways white Americans ap...

Deft and era-spanning . . . Uta Seeburg compresses a vast culinary history into a collection thats equal parts lively and illuminating. Mayukh Sen...

Art and the Nation State is a wide-ranging study of the reception and critical debate on modernist art from the foundation of the Irish Free State ...

Die lateinische Lehrdichtung der Frühen Neuzeit ist ein von der modernen Forschung bis heute nur wenig beachtetes Phänomen, dem sich der vorliegend...

Examines the experiences of thousands of Jewish Argentines who built their life trajectories through migrations to and from IsraelEmigration from I...

Examines the experiences of thousands of Jewish Argentines who built their life trajectories through migrations to and from IsraelEmigration from I...

Did early modern people care about their health? And what did it mean to lead a healthy life in Italy and England? Through a range of textual evid...

Between 2009 and 2014, an anti-homosexuality law circulating in the Ugandan parliament came to be the focus of a global conversation about queer ri...

In a surreal and unprecedented year in which even the most seasoned commentators have struggled to keep pace with the news cycle, letter writers to...

Winner, 2022 AATSEEL Best Book in Literary Studies, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and European LanguagesHonorable Mention, 2022 Aldo ...

Winner, 2022 AATSEEL Best Book in Literary Studies, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and European LanguagesHonorable Mention, 2022 Aldo ...

This book explores how Diasporic Black women engage in politics, highlighting three dimensionscitizenship, power, and justicethat are foundational ...

Die Arbeit widmet sich der Frage, wie eine Beschreibung von Marktszenen in vormoderner Literatur zu leisten ist, ohne diese im Spiegel moderner wir...

The story of the American newsroom is that of modern American journalism. In this holistic history, Will Mari tells that story from the 1920s throu...

In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blacknessfrom the Atlantic slave trade to...

CULTURE AND VALUES: A SURVEY OF THE WESTERN HUMANITIES takes you on a fascinating tour of some of the world's most significant examples of art, mus...

Changes in childhood and childrens roles in society, and in how children participate in determining their own lives, have long been of interest to ...