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For over a century Mexico has been embroiled in a drug war dictated by the demands of their neighbor
What were the key ideas and influences on Michel Foucault’s early career? In The Early Foucault (Pol
Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity (Oxford UP, 2024) dances a
Photography emerged in the 1840s in the United States, and it became a visual medium that documents
On this episode, J.J. Mull interviews scholar and historian Camille Robcis. In her most recent book,
During the Second World War, approximately 1000 Christian chaplains accompanied Wehrmacht forces whe
During the middle decades of the twentieth century, the production of America’s consumer culture was
As a novelist, short story author, screenwriter, and Nobel laureate, William Faulkner looms large in
The current rise of nationalism across the globe is a reminder that we are not, after all, living in
In Missiology Reimagined: The Missions Theology of the Nineteenth-Century African American Missionar
After India achieved independence from the British in 1947, there remained five scattered territorie
At the end of the American Revolution, Elizabeth Freeman was an enslaved widow and mother living in
If tales of China’s radical ‘opening up’ to the world over the last 30 years imply that the country
London, 1857: A pair of teenage girls holding a sign that says "Fugitive Slaves" ask for money on th
The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribb
The figure of Sigmund Freud has captivated the Western imagination like few others. One hundred and
In Remembrance of Things Present: The Invention of the Time Capsule (University of Chicago Press, 20
Recognizing the absence of a God named Yahweh outside of ancient Israel, this study addresses the re
As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on the world stage. In 1947, to
Queens of the Underworld: A Journey into the Lives of Female Crooks (The History Press, 2021) tells
