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From 1845 to 1865 the Gulf of Mexico was at the center of American expansion and southern imperialis
Love and the Working Class: The Inner Worlds of Nineteenth Century Americans (Oxford University Pres
Was migration to Germany a blessing or a curse? The main argument of this book is that the Greek sta
Since the French Revolution of 1789, the absence of laws banning interracial marriages has served to
The Jews of Ptolemaic Egypt: The History of a Diaspora Community in Light of the Papyri (De Gruyter,
Johanna Drucker’s Iliazd: A Meta-Biography of a Modernist (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020) unc
Ryan Moran’s Selling the Future: Community, Hope, and Crisis in the Early History of Japanese Life I
Micah Alpaugh argues that the forgotten actors in the French Revolution are the French people themse
The metaphor of New Jerusalem has long been used to justify dueling narratives of America as the lan
Germany, spring 1945. Hitler is dead and his armies crushed. Across the conquered Reich, cities lie
“We are a much-lectured people,” wrote Robert Spence Watson in 1897. Beginning at mid-century, citie
During her keynote speech at the 1976 Democratic Party convention, Barbara Jordan of Texas stood bef
Prof. Gullachsen's newest book, The Defeat and Attrition of the 12. SS-Panzer-Division “Hitlerjugend
On July 22, 1847, a group of about forty refugees entered the Salt Lake Valley. Among them were thre
A sobering account of how the United States trapped itself in endless wars—abroad and at home—and wh
The exceptional opening of the archives of the pontificate of Pius XII (1939-1958) in 2020 did not e
Women's virginity held tremendous significance in early Christianity and the Mediterranean world. Ea
Dangerous Anarchist Strikers (Brill, 2023) explores the ideas of three largely forgotten radical wom
In his new book, Instrument of War: Music and the Making of the America's Soldiers (University of Ch
In recent decades, the disciplines of retail history, business history, design and cultural history
