German-born Marie Zakrzewska (1829–1902) was one of the most prominent female physicians of ninet...

In search of an explanation of how a sense of ethnic identity evolves to create the concept of na...

While most historians of the Vietnam War focus on the origins of U.S. involvement and the America...

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

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

American Night, the final volume of an unprecedented trilogy, brings Alan Wald’s multigenerationa...

Tracing the full history of traditionally white college fraternities in America from their days i...

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

During World War II, hundreds of thousands of prisoners were worked to death by the Nazis under a...

Calogeras's book occupies a unique place among the histories of Brazil. Comprising the story of B...

Slavery Remembered is the first major attempt to analyze the slave narratives gathered as part of...

Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small ...