Social & Cultural History

How can the concept of nostalgia illuminate the culturally specific ways in which societies understand the contested relationship between the past,...

This groundbreaking resource moves us from theory to action with a practical plan for reparations.   A surge in interest in black reparations is ta...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platfo...

As recent statistics show, more than 100 million people on the planet have used MDMA. After cannabis, it is the second most used drug worldwide. Ye...

This collection situates over seventy essential primary documents in their historical context to illustrate the American experience during the inte...

How white advocates of emancipation abandoned African American causes in the dark days of Reconstruction, told through the stories of four Minnesot...

In the depths of a depression in 1894, a highly successful Gilded Age businessman named Jacob Coxey led a group of jobless men on a march from his ...

Provides a timely portrait of young Black Christians and how digital technology is transforming the Black Church They stand at the forefront of the...

An insightful look at the life and legacy of a pioneer cynologist between Europe and Israel.   Rudolphina Menzel (née Waltuch, 18911973), was a Vie...

In the Vortex of Violence examines the uncharted history of lynching in post-revolutionary Mexico. Based on a collection of previously untapped sou...

In The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 18621916, Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly examines generations of mixed-race African Americans after ...

The Merchants of Oran weaves together the history of a Mediterranean port city with the lives of Oran's Jewish mercantile elite during the transiti...

'A heartfelt celebration of all kinds of queer love' Alice Linehan, Gay Community News  A ground-breaking Irish lesbian love story, set across th...

Vocals tinged with pain and desperation. The deep thuds of an upright bass. Women with short bangs and men in cuffed jeans. These elements and othe...

An engaging ethnography of Korean American immigrant families navigating the United States Both scholarship and popular culture on Asian American ...

How a pioneering merchant blended religion and business to create a unique American shopping experience On Christmas Eve, 1911, John Wanamaker stoo...

2024 Jon Gjerde Prize Winner for best book in Midwestern History After the War of 1812 and the removal of the regions Indigenous peoples, the Ameri...

Winner, 2020 Peter C Rollins Prize, given by the Northeast Popular & American Culture Association Enables a reckoning with the legacy of the Fo...

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

How Latina girls and women become entangled in the criminal justice system Despite representing roughly 16 percent of incarcerated women, Latina wo...

A 2008 cover of The New Yorker featured a much-discussed Black Power parody of Michelle and Barack Obama. The image put a spotlight on how easy it ...

Restricted to the shorthand of 'sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll,' the counterculture would seem to be a brief, vibrant stretch of the 1960s. But the ...

Labor leader, civil rights activist, outspoken feminist, African American clergywoman--Reverend Addie Wyatt stood at the confluence of many rivers ...

The transition from royal to popular sovereignty during the age of democratic revolutions--from 1776 to 1848--entailed not only the reorganization ...