Social & Cultural History

Of the many charges laid against contemporary literary scholars, one of the most common - and perhaps the most wounding - is that they simply don't...

Brown in the Windy City is the first history to examine the migration and settlement of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in postwar Chicago. Lilia Fernan...

A knife adorned with a swastika and an eagle''s head ... As a young boy, Joseph Pearson was terrified of the weapon hanging from a hook in his gran...

A bold and original argument that upends the myth of the Fifties as a decade of conformity to celebrate the solitary, brave, and stubborn individua...

A Waterstones Best History Book of the Year The bestselling history of the North of England as told through the lives of its...

In the popular imagination MI5, or the Security Service, is known chiefly as the branch of the British state responsible for chasing down those who...

Hugely readable and entertaining JIM AL-KHALILI An accessible and crystal-clear portrait of this disciplines breadth, largel...

Discover the stories passed down over time from the people of the Ozark region. Oral history is shared through the years to provide a perspective o...