Rethinks the role of Indigenous and non-Indigenous interactions in the production of ethnographic museum collections.

Analyzes the dynamic period in which Dick Gregory and Bill Cosby moved African American professional stand-up comedy from the chitlin’ circuit to the mainstream.

Investigates how nineteenth-century British literature grappled with a new understanding of aging as both an individual and collective experience.

Reflects on the legacy and limits of suffrage in New York State as a way to understand present-day issues with women's social and political rights, as well proposes ideas for future progress.

Calls attention to the political, economic, and cultural interdependence and interaction of global and local forces shaping the Atlantic world of the nineteenth century.

Argues that impeachment may no longer be an effective check on overreach by American presidents.

Timely and provocative asessment of various cultural, moral, and political problems in "post-constitutional" America.

Highlights connections between authors rarely studied together by exposing their shared counternarratives to germ theory's implicit suggestion of protection in isolation.

Argues that concern with the nation and national community will be a key factor in redefining twenty-first-century politics.

Makes literature of Niagara Falls available to readers with a variety of interests in literature, culture, and place.

Inspiring collection narrating how peace activists found their calling and why the world still needs peace activism.

Reveals how classic American novels embodied the tensions embedded in American views of the natural world from the Centennial until the end of the Second World War.

Presents a historical and philosophical overview of the twentieth-century German debates on secularization and their significance for contemporary discussions about the relationship between theology and modernity.

Examines the relation between Indian diplomacy and nineteenth-century Native American literature.

Investigates how depictions of young people in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America use artifice to destabilize pre-existing narratives of truth, news, and fact.

Revisits a foundational moment in Argentine history to demonstrate how the crisis of modernity opened up new possibilities for imagining kinship otherwise.

An in-depth look at Elie Wiesel’s writings, from his earliest works to his final novels.

The first detailed examination of African Americans and First Amendment rights, from the colonial era to the present.

Groundbreaking analysis of how colonialism created new conceptual categories and spatial forms that reshaped rural societies.

Offers a powerful new interpretation of Engels’s contributions to modern social and political theory.

Assesses how America's film industry remembered World War I during the interwar period.

Explores the philosophy of history of Henri Bergson and shows its relevance to contemporary historical thought.

Encompasses key years and important events in Theodore Roosevelt’s early life and career.

Explains the Hindi novel’s role in anticipating and creating the story of middle-class modernity and modernization in North India.

A comprehensive exploration of racial inequality in New York City since 1965.