The inspiring history of NYSUT, New York State’s largest union, and a powerful progressive force in the state and in the country.

Systematically illustrates the inescapable racism of American conservatism.

Looks at China’s Ginling College, the women’s missionary institution of higher learning that developed a discourse of family, recasting the Chinese Confucian family ideal as a female and Christian one.

A vivid portrait of the culture of a provincial military society in China’s early medieval period and its interactions with the southern imperial court.

Recounts the sensational 1896 murder trial of Mary Alice Livingston, who was accused of murdering her mother with an arsenic-laced pail of clam chowder and faced the possibility of becoming the first woman to be executed in New York's new-fangled electric chair.

Interviews with eighteen Jewish “hidden children” of France and Belgium, telling the story of their survival during World War II.

The comprehensive history of the State University of New York system.

Applies the concept of oppressor and oppressed nationalisms to explore the historical forces and social processes that have shaped modern Ethiopia.

Looks at how a spiritual tradition can be appropriated by those involved in ethno-nationalist conflict.

A history of the Sandemanians, a little-known but ultimately influential Christian sect in colonial America.

Examines the importance of fetishism in nineteenth-century cultural theory.

Comprehensive study of the Lebanese Army from Lebanon’s independence to the present.

Explores Victorian responses to death and burial in literature, journalism, and legal writing.

Uncovers the origins of midlife anxiety in Victorian print culture.

Examines the role of forgetfulness in our understanding of the Holocaust.

The first full-length biography of Timothy D. "Big Tim" Sullivan, who dominated New York City politics in the three decades prior to World War I.

Beautifully illustrated history of the Hudson River and its impact on the peoples and landscape of New York State.

Examines the many facets of the Hudson's rich history, distinctive regional culture, and important contributions to the development of modern America.

A comprehensive cultural and historical portrait of Italian American identities in Boston’s North End.

A sweeping history of this natural wonder, from its geological beginnings to the present.

Explores the relationship between gender and identity in early medieval Germanic societies.

Explores the relationship between disciplinarity and contemporary ethics of scholarship about the Holocaust.

Recounts the shift towards conservatism in New York’s Republican Party in the 1960s and 1970s.

Examines the images, hopes, and fears that were evoked during China’s century-long subservience to external powers.

Explores the work of Anne Conway, whose philosophy of the natural world incorporated a spiritual vision.