Revealing how landscapes dedicated to the perpetual care of the dead mirrored the transformations and conflicts of the nineteenth century in American society
Unearthing the undead stalking the panels of action/adventure and superhero comics
Awarded the University of Michigan Press / Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) publication prize for Notable Work in the Digital Humanities
A study of Henry Ford and rural America in the 1920s
Studies the most significant American labor conflict of the 20th century
A century of human aviation and space travel, seen through the lens of performance
Reveals the history of how 3,000 Greek children were shipped to the United States for adoption in the postwar period
Shows how theater was essential to the anti-slavery movement’s consideration of forceful resistance
Shows how theater was essential to the anti-slavery movement’s consideration of forceful resistance
In print for the first time--the document that the Kerner Commission did not want to see released
Does the gun lobby threaten the democratic institutions safeguarding individual liberty in America?
Examines the birth of the American middle class as white-collar workers used their growing consumer identity to organize politically
An exploration of the history of African American musicians in Chicago during the mid-20th century
One woman’s tireless crusade for better understanding and social justice for adopted people
The first book to tell the story of country music in Detroit
Reveals the crucial role that spectacle played in American activism and reform movements in the 1800s
A comparison of the mid-19th-century city in the poetry of Walt Whitman and Charles Baudelaire and their responses to the inescapable push of modernization
A new look at the "eccentric author" figure in early nineteenth-century America
Two key performances by Paul Robeson shed light on the Cold War era
Did a long-standing and libertarian understanding of the American Revolution create the perfect climate for the militia movement in the United States?
Was Nathaniel Hawthorne a racist? A compelling second look at a canonical American author
Close textual analysis explores the culture of risk in our country's early days
Film provides a window into American culture and its attitudes toward Asia of the first half of the 20th century
Offers a new conceptualization of black workingclass participation in the civil rights movement
An engrossing story of one of the landmark cases in First Amendment history