Studies the revolutionary theory of the Black Power Movement in the 1960s through ʼ70s, placing it within the broader social theory of black revolution in the United States since the nineteenth century.

Reveals how presidents deploy a rhetoric that attempts to attract many racial and ethnic groups, but ultimately directs itself to an archtypal white, Middle-American swing voter.

Investigates how musicals, war films, sex comedies, and Westerns dealt with contentious issues during a time of change in Hollywood.

Uncovers long-ignored political themes—ideology, propaganda, mind-control, and Orwellian history—at work within the pages of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

Examines the history of the Italian anarchist movement in New London, Connecticut.

Tells the forgotten but surprising stories of the many handsome and significant buildings in downtown Troy, New York.

Recounts the forgotten but important work of Wayne Coy, the Office for Emergency Management's Liaison Officer, during the early years of World War II.

Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis.

Discusses the conservative ideological and political attack on welfare in the United States.

Traces the US Supreme Court’s effect on federal government growth from the founding era forward.

A compelling story of our ever-evolving relationship with mountains and wilderness.

Contrasts the experiences of German Jewish refugees from the Holocaust who fled to London and New York City.

How films of the 1960s and early 1970s framed therapeutic issues as problems of human communication, and individual psychological problems as social ones.

Explores a little-known history of exchange between Anishinaabe and American writers, showing how literature has long been an important venue for debates over settler colonial policy and indigenous rights.

Examines political authority in the modern era as a function of specific energy politics.

Analyzes the nineteenth century canal age in the Niagara-Great Lakes borderland region as a transnational phenomenon.

Recounts the transformation of two daily newspapers in the face of economic downturns and sweeping technological change.

Tells the story of a young couple in love during World War II, and the difficulties they faced both at war and on the home front.

Examines the causes and consequences of recusal behavior on the US Supreme Court.

Explores the role of rhetoric and the racial classification of Asian American immigrants in the early twentieth century.

The first comprehensive biography of an important yet understudied figure in the Dutch colony of New Netherland.

Combines history and biography to interpret the last half century of black politics in America as represented in the life and work of a pivotal African American public intellectual.

How the Pine Hills neighborhood in Albany, New York, changed and grew, as reflected in the history of one house and the lives of its residents.

Examines how the US media covers high-profile public policy issues in the context of competing claims about media bias.

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