Society and culture: general

On March 31, 1968, over 500 Black nationalists convened in Detroit to begin the process of securing independence from the United States.

Early twentieth-century African American men in northern urban centers like New York faced economic isolation, segregation, a biased criminal justice system, and overt racial attacks by police and citizens.

Happy has lived at the Bronx Zoo for most of her 48 years, and for more than a decade has remained largely isolated and lonely.

Extinguishing a public health threat is difficult under any condition, let alone during a sweeping national revolution.

Red Clay, 1835 envelops students in the treaty negotiations between the Cherokee National Council and representatives of the United States at Red Clay, Tennessee.

Bioethics needs an expanded moral vision.

Changing the Game is set at a fictional university in the mid-1990s.

The Needs of Others is set at the UN in 1994, where diplomats learn of violence in Rwanda.

In the antebellum United States, formerly enslaved men and women who told their stories and advocated for abolition helped establish a new genre with widely recognized tropes: the slave narrative.

In this sweeping chronicle of guarana glossy-leaved Amazonian vine packed with more caffeine than any other plantSeth Garfield develops a wide-ranging approach to the history of Brazil itself.

Viola Franziska Mller examines runaways who camouflaged themselves among the free Black populations in Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, and Richmond.

In the fall of 1999, the World Trade Organization (WTO) prepared to hold its biennial Ministerial Conference in Seattle.

Over the past decade, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Chile have been buffeted by intensive transformations.

In histories of enslavement and in Black womens history, coercion looms large in any discussion of sex and sexuality.

The story of activist youth in America is usually framed around the Vietnam War, the counterculture, and college campuses, focusing primarily on college students in the 1960s and 1970s.

On an August night in 1893, the deadliest hurricane in South Carolina history struck the Lowcountry, killing thousandsalmost all African American.

Before 1850, all legal executions in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands; the last legal public execution was in 1936.

This is a history of precious-metals extractivism as lived in Cerro de San Pedro, a small gold- and silver-mining district in Mexico.

After the 1959 Cuban Revolution, hundreds of thousands of Cuban refugees came to Miami.

This book offers the definitive history of how formerly enslaved men and women pursued federal benefits from the Civil War to the New Deal and, in the process, transformed themselves from a stateless people into documented citizens.

What is the something in these hills that ties mountain families to family land in the southern Appalachians?

Liquor was essential to military culture as well as healthcare regimens in both the Union and Confederate armies.

In this book, Abby L.

While not commonly centered in the Cold War story, Latin America was intensely affected by that historic conflict.

Examining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, Proving Pregnancy documents how womenBlack and white, enslaved and freegradually lost control over reproduction to male medical and legal professionals.

This book invites readers into a growing, dynamic conversation among scholars and critics around a vibrant community of artists from an African American South.

In this interdisciplinary work, Stacy J.

This is a story of art and movement building at the limits of imagination.

In the early 1970s, a new wave of public service announcements urged parents to help end an American tradition of child abuse.

Romare Bearden (19111988), one of the most prolific, original, and acclaimed American artists of the twentieth century,richly depictedscenes and figures rooted in the American South and the Black experience.

Despite the rise of the Hollywood system and hostility to Asian migrant communities in the early twentieth-century United States, Japanese Americans created a thriving cinema culture that produced films and established theaters and exhibition companies to facilitate their circulation between Japan and the United States.

In this book, Amy K.

In this anthology of creative nonfiction, twenty-eight writers set out to discover what they know, and dont know, about the person they call Mother.

In the first book-length history of Puerto Rican civil rights in New York City, Sonia Lee traces the rise and fall of an uneasy coalition between Puerto Rican and African American activists from the 1950s through the 1970s.

Hemispheric foreign policy has waxed and waned since the Mexican War, and the Cold War presented both extraordinary promises and dangerous threats to U.

For the better part of two centuries, between 1720 and 1877, the Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) people controlled a vast region of what is now the U.

Alexandra Finley adds crucial new dimensions to the boisterous debate over the relationship between slavery and capitalism by placing womens labor at the center of the antebellum slave trade, focusing particularly on slave traders' ability to profit from enslaved womens domestic, reproductive, and sexual labor.

From 1898 onward, the expansion of American militarism and empire abroad increasingly relied on black labor, even as policy remained inflected both by scientific racism and by fears of contagion.

Between 1935 and 1939, the United States government paid out-of-work artists to write, act, and stage theatre as part of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), a New Deal job relief program.

In Mexico and across other parts of Latin America local Indigenous peoples have built community policing groups as a means of protection where the state has limited control over, and even complicity in, crime and violence.

This classic book tells the remarkable story of Robert F.

This classic work helps recover the central role of black women in the political history of the Jim Crow era.

At turns lyrical, ironic, and sympathetic, Mario Filhos chronicle of the beautiful game is a classic of Brazilian sports writing.

In a century almost continually at odds with the proper place of females, Catherine Esther Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Isabella Beecher Hooker shared a commitment to womens power.

Drawing upon a personal collection of more than 300 letters exchanged between her parents and other family members across the U.

Conceived at the same conference that produced the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Student Interracial Ministry (SIM) was a national organization devoted to dismantling Jim Crow while simultaneously advancing American Protestant mainline churches approach to race.

In the volatility of the Civil War, the federal government opened its payrolls to women.

Although the LGBT movement has made rapid gains in the United States, LGBT people continue to face discrimination in faith communities.

The journal of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, spanning the years from 1848 to 1889, is rare for its treatment of both the Civil War and postbellum years and for its candor and detail in treating these eras.

There are few moments in history when the division between the sexes seems as natural as during wartime: men go off to the war front, while women stay behind on the home front.