Social & Cultural History

Shawnee, Miami, Delaware, Wyandot, Ottawa, Iroquois, and Mingotribes great and small, loosely confederated or warring with each other, pushed ever ...

In the mid-1960s, the charismatic César Chávez led members of California's La Causa movement in boycotting the grape harvest, and melon pickers in ...

In this ethnography of Catholic religious practice in Fresno, California, David P. Sandell unveils ritualized storytelling that Mexican and Mexican...

How have Scottish drinking places changed over three centuries and what makes them distinctively Scottish? What did Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, ...

In this second volume of the Interpreting American History series, experts on the 1930s address the changing historical interpretations of a critic...

Did an invasion of the Sea Peoples cause the collapse of the Late Bronze Age palace-based economies of the Levant, as well as of the Hittite Empire...

In this booklet Jill Dudley describes the legends of Helios (the sun-god), and explains what the Colossus was and why it was erected and what happe...

It is all free fighting here. Even some of the windows do not open, so it is useless to cry for help. Dampness and misery, violence and wrong, have...

Brittany's richly layered landscape has contributed depth and character to the region's traditional oral culture, from stories of the sea and shore...

Oxford started as an Anglo-Saxon border outpost, with a bridge replacing the 'oxen ford' from which it takes its name. It became a centre for trade...

The Roaring Twenties, jazz music, Hollywood glamour: the end of the First World War ushered in a golden age for America, with a booming stock marke...

It is at 31.4 years of age that the average woman multiple murderer kills the first of her 17 victims, whom she usually knows or is related to. ...

From the days of sail to the majestic ocean liners of the twentieth century, this is a history of British sea travel from a passengers point of vie...

Travelling showfolk have been entertaining Scots for centuries and a visit to 'the shows' was a highlight of the year until recent memory. The Codo...

An introduction about the Women's Land Army in the First and Second World Wars is followed by reminiscences, recorded recently by the editor, of te...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the groundbreaking backstairs look at the White House, The Residence, comes an intimate, news-maki...

In Indian Voices, Alison Owings takes readers on a fresh journey across America, east to west, north to south, and around again. Owings's most rece...

Nestled in a sub-tropical garden overlooking the River Dart, Greenway has an exceptional and enviable location. It certainly caught the eye of Agat...

This collection of essays explores more than five centuries of Scottish-Polish interactions. It focuses on the two main moments of contact: the ear...

South Carolina has always loomed larger in the national imagination, particularly in terms of political and social policy, than its size and popula...

You could be forgiven for thinking that the smile has no history; it has always been the same. However, just as different cultures in our own day h...

Tolkien's wizard Gandalf, Wagner's Valkyrie Brunnhilde, Marvel's superhero the Mighty Thor and the Vikings heading for Valhalla in Led Zeppelin's '...

The rapid expansion of the field of public history since the 1970s has led many to believe that it is a relatively new profession. In this book, De...

This third volume of The History of Beaufort County by Rowland, Lawrence S. and Stephen R. Wise encompasses the remaining 113 years of the 500-year...