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.

Demonstrates how local political parties have retained a role of critical importance in American politics.

Details how presidents utilize mass media to justify foreign policy objectives in the aftermath of 9/11.

Essays addressing relatively unknown or unexamined speeches delivered by famous or influential environmental figures.

Provides encyclopedic coverage of female sexuality in 1940s popular culture.

The history of John Dewey's leadership of the progressive People's Lobby.

Demonstrates how American Jews used culture—art, dance, music, fashion, literature—to win the hearts and minds of postwar Americans to the cause of Israel.

Challenges the traditional perception that Loyalists were ostracized as traitors to the United States, after the American Revolution.

An account of a mysterious murder committed in nineteenth-century Troy, New York, and the sensational trial that ensued.

The inspirational story of an African American community that migrated from the Deep South to Albany, New York, in the 1930s.

A biography of one of nineteenth-century America’s foremost poets and public intellectuals.

An award-winning African-American historian and novelist takes the reader on an exciting journey from a segregated Philadephia childhood in the 1930's to mid-century Paris, Moscow, Cambridge, and Manhattan.

The first full-length biography of America’s youngest, and perhaps most underrated, First Lady.

Examines the organized efforts to reshape the law relating to young women’s sexuality in the United States.

Food and history combine in this exploration of the Dutch influence on American holiday traditions. Includes more than one hundred easy-to-make holiday recipes.

Explores the evolution of Atlanta's water system and charts the poor urban planning decisions that created the city's current water shortage.

The story of the Erie Canal’s completion and its place in the larger narrative of American modernity and progress.

An account of an ordinary young woman coming of age in the "Burned-Over District" of Western New York during the Second Great Awakening.

Presents New York history in a fresh way through sixteen dramatic events.

Essays by eleven prominent scholars provide the latest insights into the seventeenth-century history of the Hudson Valley and its environs.

Offers a critical history of the role of pain, suffering, and compassion in democratic culture.

Explores the curating of “difficult knowledge” through the exhibition of lynching photographs in contemporary museums.

Tells the social history of the Iroquois people of Ohio during the buildup to removal.