This critical interpretation of the origins of modern fiction follows the transformation of the p...

The Colorado River region looms large in the history of the American West, vitally important in t...

In this ethnography of Navajo (Diné) popular music culture, Kristina M. Jacobsen examines questio...

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms...

The Berlin Wall is arguably the most prominent symbol of the Cold War era. Its construction in 19...

This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of t...

For fifteen years, food writer Belinda Ellis traveled around the country for the White Lily® flou...

Magic City is the story of one of American music's essential unsung places: Birmingham, Alabama, ...

This collection of essays examines religion in the American South across three centuries--from th...

New in paperbackThis captivating book of recollections celebrates the holiday traditions of Appal...

Beginning with the introduction of abortion law in the nineteenth century, this reader includes i...

Slavery is America's family secret, a partially hidden phantom that continues to haunt our nation...