Social & Cultural History

The discovery of the Americas around 1500 AD was an extraordinary watershed in human experience. It gave rise to the modern period of human ecology...

As Meghan Markle once said: 'With fame comes opportunity, but it also includes responsibility - to advocate and share, to focus less on the glass s...

In Whiteout:  How Canada Cancels Blackness, his new and essential collection of essays, George Elliott Clarke exposes the various ways in which the...

Jews and the Military is the first comprehensive and comparative look at Jews' involvement in the military and their attitudes toward war from the ...

For centuries indigenous communities of North America have used carriers to keep their babies safe. Among the Indians of the Great Plains, rigid cr...

Winner of the 2016 Religious Communication Association Book of the Year Award In God Mocks, Terry Lindvall ventures into the muddy and dangerous re...

Honorable Mention, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society A compelling story of how Judaism became integrate...

**FINALIST for the 2022 PROSE Award in Music & the Performing Arts** **Certificate of Merit, Best Historical Research on Recorded Jazz, given b...

The generational and social thinking changes that caused an unprecedented shift toward support for gay marriage How did gay marriagesomething unima...

While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convinc...

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

Poetry & Strikes examines shifting representations of strike action in the work of six British poets from the 1970s to the present day. It cons...

The Persica is an extensive history of Assyria and Persia written by the Greek historian Ctesias, who served as a doctor to the Persian king Artaxe...

What is The Tiger Who Came to Tea really about? How is Meg and Mog related to Polish embroidery? And why does death in picture books involve bein...

From the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a stunning, unprecedented, and often bloody...

Francis Pegahmagabow (18891952), an Ojibwe of the Caribou clan, was born in Shawanaga First Nation, Ontario. Enlisting at the onset of the First Wo...

During the nineteenth century, the Age of Nationalism, small stateless nations all over Europe developed successful national movements which demand...

A memoir of life in Iran in the tumultuous years leading up to the 1979 revolution'Offers an intimate window onto the Iranian revolution just when ...

Transformative change through unruly resistance, defiant love, and radical careIn the struggles for prison abolition, global anti-imperialism, immi...

Contemporary African American writing negotiates the twinned crises of anthropogenic climate change and anti-Black violence by thinking in new ways...

In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West, from Lewis and Clark's expedition i...

Indigenous Languages and the Promise of Archives captures the energy and optimism that many feel about the future of community-based scholarship, w...