Social & Cultural History

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...

Blueprint for Disaster traces public housing's history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through current mayor Richard M. Daley's Plan for Transfo...

From the end of the Civil War through 1941, a total of 168 North Carolinians lost their lives to lynching. This form of mob violence was often j...

Becoming Bourgeois traces the fortunes of three French families in the municipality of Vannes, in BrittanyGalles, Jollivet, and Le Ridantwho rose t...

Model Airplanes are Decadent and Depraved tells the story of the American glue-sniffing epidemic of the 1960s, from the first reports of use to the...

The History of Starved Rock provides a wonderful overview of the famous site in Utica, Illinois, from when European explorers first viewed the bluf...

In Trying Biology, Adam R. Shapiro convincingly dispels many conventional assumptions about the 1925 Scopes monkey trial. Most view it as an event ...

In Millions Like Us Virginia Nicholson tells the story of the women's Second World War, through a host of individual women's experiences. We tend t...

In the late 1800s, Arctic Fever swept across the nation as dozens of American expeditions sailed north to the Arctic to find a sea route to Asia an...

The German-American relationship was special long before the Cold War; it was rooted not simply in political actions, but also long-term traditions...

In 1957, the University of Chicago Press asked acclaimed best-selling historian Daniel J. Boorstin to oversee a series of accessible yet authoritat...

The Age of Great Cities erupted in East Central Europe in the last quarter of the nineteenth century as migrants poured into imperial and regional ...

Until now much of the early history of ice hockey in Scotland has been neglected or forgotten - metaphorically frozen in time, lying buried under t...

In An American Friendship, David Weinfeld presents the biography of an idea, cultural pluralism, the intellectual precursor to modern multicultural...

The German 'Blitz' that followed the Battle of Britain killed tens of thousands and laid waste to large areas of many British cities. And although ...

This social history of the 'ordinary' people of the south-western peninsula of Argyll, in Western Scotland, has become a classic since its original...

Franklin Roosevelt was the first great hero of American Jews. FDR's promise of economic and social justice was consonant with the mainstays of Jewi...