Writing in true social history tradition, William W. Giffin presents a magisterial study of African Americans focusing on times that saw the culmination ...

Making Sense of the City explores the ways in which urbanites have attempted to confront the challenges of urban life during the nineteenth and twentieth ...

Winner, 2023 NCA Diamond Anniversary Book Award Winner, 2023 RSA Fellows' Early Career Award Winner, 2023 Innovations in Community Writing Book ...

In recent years, few areas of research have advanced as rapidly as cognitive science, the study of the human mind and brain. A fundamentally interdisciplinary ...

Although legislative studies is thriving, it suffers from one glaring weakness: a lack of truly comparative, cross-institutional research. Instead, research ...

Arthur Meier Schlesinger (1888-1965) was one of the most influential historians of the first half of the twentieth century. He encouraged new approaches ...

Edwin Perkins's examination of the development of financial services in North American is the first study to focus on the colonial, confederation, and ...

By analyzing nearly 5,000 homicides over an eighteen-year period, Gilles Vandal provides a clear picture of the level of physical violence in Louisiana ...

John Ingham's in-depth examination of small and mid-sized Pittsburgh steel mills during the age of Carnegie challenges business historians' traditional ...