The story of Woodstock, N.Y., over the last 100 years and how a small, rural town coped with the many challenges of changing times.

An in-depth sociological investigation of "hope" as it applies to the Italian immigrant experience in the blue-collar suburb of Chicago Heights between 1910 and 1950.

Illuminates the beginnings, downfall, and legacy of the acid-inspired, spontaneous, and playful approach to life and music in Haight-Ashbury from 1964–1967.

An “all-you-can-eat” tour of American life in the postwar period, told through the foods we loved.

Draws upon the situated work of professional coffee tasters in over a dozen countries to shed light on the methods we use to convert subjective experience into objective knowledge.

Examines English-language Indian newspapers from the mid-nineteenth century and their role in simultaneously sustaining and probing British colonial governance.

Looks at how a group of aesthetically innovative independent films contested and imagined alternatives to urban planning in midcentury New York.

Brings together archaeologists, art historians, sociologists, and classicists to explore the origins and development of unequal relationships in ancient societies.

Uses a historical study of bookselling and readers as a way to question and rethink our understanding of the market for symbolic goods.

Examines how Black women elders have managed stress, emphasizing how self-care practices have been present since at least the mid-nineteenth century, with roots in African traditions.

Presents a new way of thinking about fundamental political concepts such as freedom, justice, and the common good.

The story of the suffrage movement and the ongoing struggle for women’s rights through the lens of one family’s history.

Analyzes the dynamic period in which Dick Gregory and Bill Cosby moved African American professional stand-up comedy from the chitlin’ circuit to the mainstream.

Inspiring collection narrating how peace activists found their calling and why the world still needs peace activism.

Groundbreaking analysis of how colonialism created new conceptual categories and spatial forms that reshaped rural societies.

A distillation of the historian’s finest writings on modern Indian historical themes.

Explores the evolving role of botanic gardens from products and enablers of modernity and the nation-state, to their recent reinvention as institutions of environmental governance.

Blends academic and activist perspectives to explore recent emancipatory struggles to win and transform state power.

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

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

Recovers and chronicles the plights of ordinary New Yorkers that resonate with contemporary debates on rape and domestic violence.

Uses the state of Oklahoma as a case study for how US conservatives have attempted to unqueer America since the 1950’s.

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

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

Passionate and rollicking personal and intellectual essays by philosopher Crispin Sartwell.