Social & Cultural History

An award-winning account of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouzs most controversial novel and the fierce debates that it provoked Naguib Mahfouzs novel C...

With We Carry Their Bones, Erin Kimmerle continues to unearth the true story of the Dozier School, a tale more frightening than any fiction. In a c...

This edited collection brings together literary scholars and art historians, and maps how satire became a less genre-driven and increasingly visual...

In the 1960s, Cleveland suffered through racial violence, spiking crime rates, and a shrinking tax base, as the city lost jobs and population. Rats...

As minister of education and president of the Academy of Sciences, Count Sergei Uvarov was one of the most important statesmen in nineteenth-centur...

In the spring of 1916, an unknown photographer captured the heart of Prescott, Arizona. For decades the fruits of that labor, a collection of gl...

In 1911, the Red Sox embarked on the most ambitious spring training trip ever taken before or since. In the days when travel was by train, and even...

Who was the most beautiful woman in England in the twentieth century and why did she become the most hated woman? Who spent £500,000 to remodel he...

Ambitious and groundbreaking, Electric Shock tells the story of popular music, from the birth of recording in the 1890s to the digital age, from th...

Behind every typeface is a story who designed it, and why? What are its distinctive characteristics, and what cultural baggage does it carry? T...

The mysterious art of magic has been a source of wonderment since before the time of Christ. Shape shifting between the supernatural practices of '...

Surfing has been a significant sport and cultural practice in Hawai`i for more than 1,500 years. In the last century, facing increased marginalisat...

For almost three decades, the Cold War was focused on Berlin, where the two (nuclear-armed) sides were kept apart by a twelve-foot wall, which had ...

The ordinary tortilla was an extraordinary bond between the human and divine... From birthdays to religious ceremonies, the people of Mesoamerica c...