Understanding the flowering plants of any region begins with the recognition of families. This re...

German-born Marie Zakrzewska (1829–1902) was one of the most prominent female physicians of ninet...

In search of an explanation of how a sense of ethnic identity evolves to create the concept of na...

This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women’s rights in the first decades of t...

Viola Franziska Müller examines runaways who camouflaged themselves among the free Black populati...

Magic City is the story of one of American music’s essential unsung places: Birmingham, Alabama, ...

This collection of essays examines religion in the American South across three centuries--from th...

Beginning with the introduction of abortion law in the nineteenth century, this reader includes i...

Slavery is America’s family secret, a partially hidden phantom that continues to haunt our nation...

Calogeras's book occupies a unique place among the histories of Brazil. Comprising the story of B...

Slavery Remembered is the first major attempt to analyze the slave narratives gathered as part of...

Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small ...