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The Business of Bobbysoxers: Cultural Production in 1940s Frank Sinatra Fandom (Oxford University Pr
Mass violence did not always have a name. Like conquest, atrocity was not always seen as violating a
From Darwin's The Origin of Species to the twenty-first century, Peter Bowler reinterprets the long
James Bond, Ian Fleming’s irrepressible and ubiquitous ‘spy,’ is often understood as a Cold Warrior,
Grunge. Flannel. Generation X. In 1993, Seattle was the capital of the world, Nirvana was king, and
It’s the UConn Popcast, and when did we really start dreaming about the promise, and the danger, of
William Gallois joins the podcast to discuss his latest book, Qayrawān: The Amuletic City, published
At the end of Eric Cline's bestselling history 1177 B.C., many of the Late Bronze Age civilizations
South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago’s Classical Music Scene by Samantha Ege (
On June 11, 1937, a closed military court ordered the execution of a group of the Soviet Union's mos
Our book is: Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra (UNC Press, 2025), by Ericka Verba, which
Handbook of Indian History (Springer, 2024) comprehensively examines the extensive history of India
In August 1831, a group of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia, rose up to fight for the
Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 should not have taken the world by surprise
The 1920s and 1930s were a period of cosmopolitan globalization–and no one, perhaps, exemplified it
We often think of the modern era as the age of American power. In reality, we’re living in a long, v
In Music Films: Documentaries, Concert Films and Other Cinematic Representations of Popular Music (B
When World War II ended, about one million people whom the Soviet Union claimed as its citizens were
Choice touches virtually every aspect of our lives, from what to buy and where to live to whom to lo
Ann Schmiesing, Ph.D. is Professor of German and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Colorado-
