Exploring the mental worlds of the major groups interacting in a borderland setting, Cynthia Cumfer offers a broad, multiracial intellectual and cultural ...

Native American reservations on the Northern Plains were designed like islands, intended to prevent contact or communication between various Native peoples. ...

The abolition of Russian serfdom in 1861 and American slavery in 1865 transformed both nations as Russian peasants and African Americans gained new rights ...

By the 1920s, the sectional reconciliation that had seemed achievable after Reconstruction was foundering, and the South was increasingly perceived and ...

In an innovative fusion of labor and environmental history, Making a Living examines work as a central part of Americans' evolving relationship with ...

Using newly available material from both sides of the Iron Curtain, William Glenn Gray explores West Germany's efforts to prevent international acceptance ...

Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution as both an islandwide and a circum-Caribbean phenomenon, Graham Nessler examines the intertwined histories of Saint-Domingue ...

Jindo, Malavika Rajkotia's father, arrives in India as the Partition riots erupt. He is given a patch of barren land in small-town Karnal, to clear, ...

Envisioning La Escalera--an underground rebel movement largely composed of Africans living on farms and plantations in rural western Cuba--in the larger ...

Billings disputes the assumption that an incipient merchant class built the state's cotton mills; he reveals that a majority of the early mills was owned ...