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...

Viola Franziska Müller examines runaways who camouflaged themselves among the free Black populati...

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, ...

Although the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 shocked the world, America has confronted ter...

With this volume, Howard Smither completes his monumental History of the Oratorio. Volumes 1 and ...

When Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass in 1855, he dreamed of inspiring a “race of singers” ...