Provides firsthand accounts of militant Puerto Rican activists in 1970s New York City.

Argues that post-Katrina New Orleans is a key site for exploring competing narratives of American decline and renewal at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

The definitive biography of New York State's four-term Governor, US Senator, humanitarian, and Jewish liberal political reformer.

Offers a detailed account of the political and military history of the Irish American Fenian Brotherhood in the nineteenth century.

Chronicles the history of the women’s rights and suffrage movements in New York State and examines the important role the state played in the national suffrage movement.

The story of how and why a group of prominent and influential men in New York City and beyond came together to help women gain the right to vote.

Essays debunking the notion that contemporary America is a colorblind society.

Describes in rich detail African American daily life among free blacks in the North in the 1860s.

Uncovers an overlooked aspect of the Italian American experience.

A rare nineteenth-century journal of an everyday woman richly infused with the minutiae of antebellum daily life and work.

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Previously unpublished letters and private journal provide an intimate view of World War I through the eyes of an ordinary soldier from western New York.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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

First comparative historical analysis of the organizational growth of black colleges.

The first book to focus on the experience of LGBT archival research.