Social & Cultural History

In 1898, St. Philips Normal and Industrial School opened its doors in San Antonio, offering sewing classes for black girls. It was the inaugural ef...

In and Out of the Maasai Steppe looks at the Maasai women in the Maasai Steppe of Tanzania. The book explores their current plight - threatened by ...

In 1999, General Museveni, Uganda's autocratic leader, ordered police to arrest homosexuals for engaging in behavior that he characterized as un...

This is the story of two ordinary people, Harold and Sarah, who lived ordinary lives, each born more than a century ago. Perhaps there are millions...

Detective McNulty applies bite marks to a deceased man's body with a set of dentures in The Wire, illustrating how officialdom deals in falseho...

Like No Other: Exceptionalism and Nativism in Early Modern Japan probes the association of the early modern Japanese intellectual institution calle...

Peaceniks. Stoners. Tree huggers. Freaks. For many, the hippies of the 1960s and early 1970s were immoral, drug-crazed kids too spoiled to work ...

On 10 December 1869, the governor of Wyoming Territory signed the first full woman suffrage bill in the history of the United States. Suffragists i...

A devastating loss of life and a community's response.March 4, 1908, was an ordinary morning in Collinwood, Ohio, a village about ten miles outside...

Michael Hickey''s schoolboy letters paint a previously unseen picture of Oxford during and immediately after the Second World War. Interwoven with...

Orwell''''s Faded Lion traces the history of Britain from the end of the Second World War, during the darkest days of which George Orwell wrote The...

The song John Henry, perhaps America's greatest folk ballad, is about an African-American steel driver who raced and beat a steam drill, dying w...

A compact and comprehensive history of Portland from first European contact to the twenty-first century, Portland in Three Centuries introduces the...

Poet Alice Walker has described culture as something in which one should thrive; further, that healing means putting the heart, courage, and en...

This work searches Shakespeare's history and Roman plays to find the raw materials of English national consciousness and identity. The messages of ...

In the first full-length scholarly synthesis of the African American Churches of Christ, Edward J. Robinson provides a comprehensive look at the ch...

American Library Association Amelia Bloomer List FinalistMidwest Book Awards WinnerForeword INDIE Awards FinalistBenjamin Franklin Award Silver Awa...

Traditional scholarship on how ancient civilizations emerged is outmoded and new insights call for revision. According to the well-established p...

The 1960s were one of the most tumultuous periods in American history. Perceptions of race, gender and age changed dramatically, ripping away be...

The Provisions of War examines how soldiers, civilians, communities, and institutions have used food and its absence as both a destructive weapon a...

Imonti Modern seeks to recount a previously untold narrative of East Londons Coloured and African locations after the Second World War and before t...

The BBC television series Downton Abbey (2010-2016) developed and produced by Academy Award winner Julian Fellowes, became a cultural barometer wit...

By personalizing the experiences of American slaves, Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin had a profound effect on public attitudes toward slave...

In this extensively illustrated work, Vanessa Meikle Schulman reveals how visual representations of labor, technology, and industry were crucial in...

Vladimir Azarov grew up and came to maturity during a time in the Soviet Union when penal camps and the secret police were ubiquitous, but the one ...

Drawing on nearly thirty years of prior analyses of growth, aging, and diversity in Texas populations and households, the authors of Changing Texas...

Bernard Romans's A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida, William Bartram's Travels, and James Adair's History of the American Indian ar...

Details Coretta Scott King's upbringing in a family of proud, land-owning African Americans with a profound devotion to the ideals of social equali...

One minute I am growing up on a council estate, leaving school, feeling alienated and without much of a future. Then down the line I am married, li...

In 1936, the Texas centennial was celebrated across the state. In The Frontier Centennial, Jacob Olmstead argues that Fort Worth's celebration of t...

In the Netherlands, a small group of biracial citizens has entered its eighth decade of lives that have been often puzzling and difficult, but w...

Many books have discussed boxing in the ancient world, but this is the first to describe how boxing was reborn in the modern world. Modern boxin...

Histories of Virginia have traditionally traced the same significant but narrow lines, overlooking whole swathes of human experience crucial to an ...

By the middle 1800s, toys were appearing in forms that drew upon--and that inspired--advances in areas such as optics, biology, geography, trans...

The American cultural historian, literary and social critic and college professor Paul Fussell (1924-2012) is primarily noted for his famous wor...

This first full-length history of the Jews of Edinburgh chronicles their immigration to Scotlands capital city from Russia during the 1880s in the ...

Patterson grew up during a time of American social unrest, protest, and upheaval, and he recounts memorable instances of segregation and integratio...

The first major study in English of Vasily Zhukovsky (17831852)poet, translator of German romantic verse, and mentor of Pushkinthis book brings ove...

The perfect book for every Mississippian who cares about the state, this is a mammoth collaboration in which thirty subject editors suggested topic...

What are the Brown Mountain Lights? Geologist Ed Speer investigates North Carolina's most famous ghost story-the 120-year-old legend of mysterious ...

During the civil rights era, Memphis gained a reputation for having one of the Souths strongest NAACP branches. But that organization, led by the c...

As the largest, oldest, and wealthiest of the original thirteen colonies, Virginia played a central role in the fight for independence and as a sta...

Architects of Little Rock provides biographical and historical sketches of the architects at work in Little Rock from 1833 to 1950. Thirty-five arc...

Most of what we know about how the Civil War affected life in the Confederacy is related to cities, troop movements, battles, and prominent politic...

In recent decades the Internet has played what may seem to be a unique role in international crises. This book reveals an interesting parallel in t...