Social & Cultural History

The lives of suffragist-communist-socialite Anita Whitney and Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis converged in the first quarter of the twentieth ...

By the turn of the twentieth century, the eastern Mediterranean port city of Izmir had been home to a vibrant and substantial Sephardi Jewish commu...

In the history of black America, the image of the mortal, wounded, and dead black body has long been looked at by others from a safe distance. Cour...

Lakota Texts is a treasure trove of stories told in the original language by modern Lakota women who make their home in Denver, Colorado. Sometimes...

2022 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize Finalist Toward the end of the nineteenth century, many African Americans moved westward as...

In Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack, Judah M. Cohen demonstrates that Jews constructed a ro...

Often when Native nations assert their treaty rights and sovereignty, they are confronted with a backlash from their neighbors, who are fearful of ...

How the global tea industry influenced the international economy and the rise of mass consumerism Tea has been one of the most popular commodities...

In The Biopolitics of Feeling Kyla Schuller unearths the forgotten, multiethnic sciences of impressibilitythe capacity to be transformed by one's e...

Winner, 2020 Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York history Honorable Mention, 2019 CASA Literary Prize for Studies on L...

In Spill, self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of scene...

A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble Whites California Exposures.Kirkus Reviews  Rewriting the history of California as Ind...

The history of Latina/o participation and representation in American television Whose stories are told on television? Who are the heroes and heroin...

Illuminates how religion has shaped Latino politics and community building Too often religious politics are considered peripheral to social movemen...

A history of design that is often overlookeduntil we need it Have you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have you ever used ...

In All My Relatives David C. Posthumus offers the first revisionist history of the Lakotas religion and culture in a generation. He applies key ins...

Winner, 2020 Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award, given by the Children and Youth Section of the American Sociological Association Winner, 202...

Theory, as its happened across the humanities, has often been coded as Jewish. This collection of essays seeks to move past explanations for this u...

Although historians today turn increasingly to oral tradition as a source of data on the history of non-literate peoples, Paul Irwin cautions them ...

In 1876 Lakota and Cheyenne warriors annihilated Custers Seventh Cavalry at Little Bighorn. Three years later and half a world away, a British forc...

As the site of the first permanent English settlement in North America, the birthplace of a presidential dynasty, and the gateway to western growth...

Unconquerable is John Milton Oskisons biography of John Ross, written in the 1930s but unpublished until now. John Ross was principal chief of the ...

A surprising and fascinating look at how Black culture has been leveraged by corporate America. Open the brochure for the Alvin Ailey American Danc...

Being Together in Place explores the landscapes that convene Native and non-Native people into sustained and difficult negotiations over their radi...