Social & Cultural History

A positive legacy of the troubled Nixon administration--and one virtually unknown to the American public--is the extensive acquisition of valuab...

Action figures are more than toys or collectibles--they are statements on race, gender, class, body positivity and more. This collection of nine...

Approaching 21st-century Dublin by boat, the topography of the sight before you - the hill of Howth, the Dublin and Wicklow Mountains - is much the...

The 1957 PCL season faced uncertainty about the pending invasion of major league baseball in 1958. While the meetings, wheeling and dealing and pol...

In 1983, Interpol named Northern Ireland the most dangerous place in the world to be a police officer. In 1968, the RUC was catapulted into the T...

In 1972, the Philadelphia Phillies experienced one of their worst seasons in franchise history, finishing with an abysmal 59-97 record. Yet through...

Bette Davis as a madam. Orson Welles hosting The Twilight Zone. Mae West voicing a cartoon character. Shirley Temple playing a social worker. While...

Paper dolls might seem the height of simplicity--quaint but simple toys, nothing more. But through the centuries paper figures have reflected re...

In 1924, Professor Ueno Eizaburo of Tokyo Imperial University adopted an Akita puppy he named Hachiko. Each evening Hachiko greeted Ueno on his ret...

Every legitimate member of Revolutionary War soldier Francis Jones's family (including his son-in-law Congressman James Strudwick Smith) lies in a ...

Women played an integral role in the theater of the Antebellum and Civil War South. Yet their contributions have largely been overlooked by hist...

Vit Nam is the home of more than fifty ethnic minorities--such as the Cham and Thai--many of which have distinctive clothing and weaving traditi...

As the Civil War ended, thousands of Union veterans imagined Kansas as a place to make a new beginning. Many veterans settled in the southeaster...

During the Cleveland Indians' checkered 110-year history, only two of its teams have brought home baseball's ultimate prize. While the 1948 team co...

A bold new account of how celebrity worksWhy do we care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? Do celebrities deserve the ou...

A 1970s childhood was, for many, a life of happy-go-lucky freedom set against a soundtrack of pop music played on a transistor radio dangling from ...

Lustrous, warm, lightweight, strong, silk has always been a symbol of wealth and status, beginning in prehistoric China. In Pomp and Poverty: A His...

A Metro book of the year Interweaving the social, political, and personal, in 1947 Elisabeth Åsbrink chronicles the year that now began. In 1947,...

Lying at the very edge of the eighteenth-century city, behind high walls and forbidding gates, the Dublin Foundling Hospital was long viewed with h...

A dance was devised in eighteenth-century Skye. An exhilarating dance. A dance, a visitor reports, the emigration from Skye has occasioned. The vis...

The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of Public Safety strove t...

In a period of meaningless mass manufacturing, our growing appetite for hand-made objects, artisan food, and craft beverages reveals our deep cravi...

A unique and thrilling insight into the brilliant mind of Anne Lister Sally Wainwright, creator of Gentleman JackFemale Fortune is the book which i...

'It is a story full of drama, with the Nile, the pyramids and the Valley of the Kings as backdrop. That A World Beneath the Sands is also a subtle ...

From the Archaic to the Roman imperial period, an impressive number of gods and goddesses are attested in the Greek world under the titles of Soter...

This groundbreaking collection explores the convergence of the spatial and digital turns through a suite of smartphone apps (Hidden Cities) that pr...

In the 1950s and 1960s, movie theatres across Thailand were important architectural statements and centres of social and cultural life. At a time w...

''[A] comprehensive and important history of black Britain . . . Written with a wonderful clarity of style and with great force and passion.'' Kwas...

In Victorian London, the age of consent was just thirteen. Unwitting girls were regularly enticed, tricked and sold into prostitution. If not marke...

Transporting the reader to the heart-wrenching times of World War II, Some Sunny Day is an evocative memoir of love and courage in war-torn Asia by...

Por fin disponible en español, Ilegal es el aclamado libro de memorias de José Ángel N., un inmigrante indocumentado que se construyó una vida nuev...

When Charles Lindbergh landed at LeBourget Airfield on May 21, 1927, his transatlantic flight symbolized the new era-not only in aviation but also ...

The American South is a distinctive place with a dramatic history, and has significance beyond its regional context in the twenty first century. Th...

Among the most significant subcultures in modern U.S. history, the hippies had a far-reaching impact. Their influence essentially defined the 19...

The fascinating history of a much-loved Canberra landmark.Joan Sutherlands debut, the notorious Petrov Commission, a rumoured ghost and rowdy publi...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Violence is part and parcel of human history and of human nature. It is one of our most dis...

Edition of young men's magazines from just before the First World War, presenting a vivid and touching picture of life at the time. The Angels' Vo...

*Now a major movie starring Seth Rogen, Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Shailene Woodley, Sebastian Stan and Nick Offerman* ...

How has feminism developed? What have feminists achieved? What can we learn from the global history of feminism?Feminism is the ongoing story of a ...