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

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

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.

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

The story of a nineteenth-century New Yorker’s struggle to reconcile his same-sex erotic desires with his commitment to a Christian life.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Study of a fascinating medieval Jewish philosopher, focusing on his twin conceptions of history.

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

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.