History: specific events & topics books

Like a long winter's dream, this haunting and visionary new novel from 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang takes us...  Read More >>

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The Indian National Army trials of 1945-46 have generally been given short shrift by historians in their cataloguing...  Read More >>

When cartoonist Elzie Segar created Popeye, as a minor character ten years into the run of the Thimble Theatre strip...  Read More >>

Founded in 1883, the Chicago Manual Training School (CMTS) was a short-lived but influential institution dedicated...  Read More >>

Class Meets Land reveals something seemingly counterintuitive: that nineteenth-century class struggles over land...  Read More >>

The Indian National Army trials of 1945-46 have generally been given short shrift by historians in their cataloguing...  Read More >>

Economic and political uncertainty has brought the language of class—especially discussion of the working class—to...  Read More >>

The political ecology of colonial capitalism reveals how the co-production of race and nature is a fundamental dynamic...  Read More >>

A foundational figure in modern labor history, David Montgomery both redefined and reoriented the field. This collection...  Read More >>

Founded in 1883, the Chicago Manual Training School (CMTS) was a short-lived but influential institution dedicated...  Read More >>

Born in Hong Kong, Bernie Wong moved to the United States in the early 1960s to attend college. A decade later,...  Read More >>

Often examined separately, play and hauntings in fact act together to frame postcolonial issues. Sushmita Chatterjee...  Read More >>

Economic and political uncertainty has brought the language of class—especially discussion of the working class—to...  Read More >>

Like the media coverage of the civil rights era itself, Hollywood dramas have reinforced regional stereotypes of...  Read More >>

In 1986 the Compact of Free Association marked the formal end of U.S. colonialism in the Republic of the Marshall...  Read More >>

Black Revolutionaries is an accessible yet rigorously argued history of the Black Panther Party (BPP), one of the...  Read More >>

This collection of more than a dozen essays focuses on the political dynamics of race, class, and nationalism in...  Read More >>

A revelatory look at the photography that shaped the American Jazz Age. In this book, Alan John Ainsworth considers...  Read More >>

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marramarra highlights contemporary Indigenous art from across the planet and how artists and their communities are...  Read More >>

Like the media coverage of the civil rights era itself, Hollywood dramas have reinforced regional stereotypes of...  Read More >>

In 1986 the Compact of Free Association marked the formal end of U.S. colonialism in the Republic of the Marshall...  Read More >>

This collection of more than a dozen essays focuses on the political dynamics of race, class, and nationalism in...  Read More >>

Black Revolutionaries is an accessible yet rigorously argued history of the Black Panther Party (BPP), one of the...  Read More >>