Examines the body in literature and science in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe.

Tells the story of Poughkeepsie’s transformation from small city to urban region.

One woman’s journey to uncover her family’s history and understand the ties that bind us to a particular place.

Brings a strikingly original perspective to Johnson’s life, and suggests new ways of thinking about Johnson’s part in creating a nation he did not live to see.

Drawing on the latest research, leading scholars shed new light on the culture, society, and legacy of the New Netherland colony.

New York's fascinating history as presented in song.

Examines how liberal society enables racism and other forms of discrimination.

Concise history of the valiant service of New York’s African American soldiers.

Turns a spotlight on the Victorian love affair with Scotland.

An ambitious and timely look at the role of religion in New York State's early public schools.

How Victorians reacted to the new sciences of geology and archaeology.

A history of the reconstruction of Fort Stanwix, New York, by the National Park Service.

How cholera epidemics affected Victorian perceptions of the body and the nation.

A compelling social history of a vibrant immigrant community, told through interviews and photographs.

The paradoxes of the American decadent movement in the 1890s and 1920s.

Responses to Fackenheim’s reflections on the centrality of the Holocaust to philosophy, Jewish thought, and contemporary experience.

From explorers’ accounts to boys’ adventure fiction, how Arctic exploration served as a metaphor for nation-building and empire in nineteenth-century Britain.

Examines both the legal and illegal uses of the death penalty in American history.

Argues there is a program of five-word utterances that imitate fallen language in Dante’s Commedia.

In Boccacio's Decameron, Cervigni sees a parodic echo of the circles of Dante's Divine Comedy, and asks whether Bocaccio envisions the voyage of the brigata as similar to Dante the Pilgrim's journey toward the center, first the abysmal center of Lucifer, then towards the highest center, God.

Interview-based study of contemporary African American feminist men.

Challenges readers to rethink the way we view the nation’s past and race relations in the present.

Delivers uncomplicated and useful techniques for better teaching to nonmajors in liberal arts courses.

Situates Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite as a Neoplatonic philosopher in the tradition of Plotinus and Proclus.

Examines the transformative power of irony in the creation of Muslim Africa.