Leading theorists explore the concept of political liberalism.

Tales of New York State history from the pages of the award-winning publication New York Archives.

Previously unpublished letters and private journal provide an intimate view of World War I through the eyes of an ordinary soldier from western New York.

Examines the influence of the notorious American anarchist “Red Emma” on the shifting social geography of sex and gender at the turn of the twentieth century.

Addresses ways that cultural imaginaries point toward alternative urban futures.

Recovers and chronicles the plights of ordinary New Yorkers that resonate with contemporary debates on rape and domestic violence.

Investigates the rise and fall of US American lesbian cultural institutions since the 1970s.

Using Chinese thought, explores how non-Western thought can structure generally applicable social and political theory.

European scholars discuss Leo Strauss as a major figure in the history of philosophy.

Discusses the origins and cultural history of the Theravada Buddhist ideals behind the Thai institution of monarchy.

How Hollywood biopics both showcase and modify various notions of what it means to be an American.

Reflections on principle and prudence in the thoughts and actions of great thinkers and statesmen.

Essays challenging conventional understandings of the slave economy of the nineteenth century.

Explores how the USHMM and other museums and memorials both displace and disturb the memories that they are trying to commemorate.

Presents never before published and translated Canadian Loyalist and American Patriot first-hand accounts of the Quebec Campaign of the Revolutionary War.

Presents and expands upon Roosevelt’s daily nautical log as he was trying to regain the use of his polio-damaged legs.

Documents the city’s surviving grain elevators and their profound influence on twentieth-century architecture.

Chronicles the life of an upper-class, mid–Hudson Valley family during the first three decades of the twentieth century.

Explores the life and times of John Drake Sloat, the US Navy Pacific Squadron commander who occupied Monterey and declared the annexation of California at the beginning of the war with Mexico.

Informative and entertaining introduction to the study of popular culture.

Argues that Indian cinema’s deep nineteenth-century past continues to play a vital role in its twenty-first-century present.

Explores the social disruption resulting from industrialization in a Chinese coalmining community at the turn of the twentieth century.

Uses the state of Oklahoma as a case study for how US conservatives have attempted to unqueer America since the 1950’s.

Examines the role of African American educators in the Birmingham civil rights movement.

Overview and analysis of labor relations in the big four American sports.