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Young Black Americans have been trying to realize the promise of...
Young Black Americans have been trying to realize the promise of the American Dream for centuries and coping with the reality of its limitations for just as long. Now, a new generation is pursuing success, happiness, and freedom – on their own terms.
Some countries have undertaken ambitious programs to stave off...
Some countries have undertaken ambitious programs to stave off climate disaster, others have done little, and still others have passed policies that were later rolled back.
When a new influenza virus emerges that is able to be...
When a new influenza virus emerges that is able to be transmitted between humans, it spreads globally as a pandemic, often with high mortality. Enormous social disruption and substantial economic cost can result.
Confederate monuments thus reinforce a theology concerning the...
Confederate monuments thus reinforce a theology concerning the nature of sacrifice and the ultimacy of whiteness.
When the magazine published “Hiroshima” in August...
When the magazine published “Hiroshima” in August 1946, it became an instant global sensation, and inspired pervasive horror about the hellish new threat that America had unleashed.
Tracing the first three generations in Puritan New England, this...
Tracing the first three generations in Puritan New England, this book explores changes in language, gender expectations, and religious identities for men and women.
The voices of the families join the witness of interreligious...
The voices of the families join the witness of interreligious volunteers of greater San Antonio who assist the refugee families in diverse capacities and who testify to the mutual blessing they receive when love of God, expressed as love of neighbor, becomes central to the immigration conversation
Through these personal stories, we witness the obstacles that...
Through these personal stories, we witness the obstacles that homeless people face, and the ingenuity it takes to negotiate life without a home.
At a time when partisan political ideologies are taking centre...
At a time when partisan political ideologies are taking centre stage, and we struggle to make sense of who we are and who we want to be, it is crucial that we understand why we act the way we do.
From Trump’s America to Brexit Britain, weaving a good...
From Trump’s America to Brexit Britain, weaving a good story, featuring fearless protagonists, challenging quests against seemingly insurmountable odds, and soundbite after soundbite of memorable dialogue has been at the heart of political success.
Since the 2016 U.S. presidential election, concerns about fake...
Since the 2016 U.S. presidential election, concerns about fake news have fostered calls for government regulation and industry intervention to mitigate the influence of false content. These proposals are hindered by a lack of consensus concerning the definition of fake news or its origins.
Actor, screenwriter, and award-winning independent filmmaker...
Actor, screenwriter, and award-winning independent filmmaker Naomi McDougall Jones takes us inside the cutthroat, scandal-laden film industry, where only 5% of top studio films are directed by women and less than 20% of leading characters in mainstream films are female.
When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But...
When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree.
This unauthorized biography pries T, as it’s known, loose...
This unauthorized biography pries T, as it’s known, loose from over a century of misconceptions that undermine science even as they make urban legends about this hormone seem scientific.
In chronicling Miami’s queer past from its 1896 founding...
In chronicling Miami’s queer past from its 1896 founding through 1940, Capo shows the multifaceted ways gender and sexual renegades made the city their own.
While many Americans are familiar with the histories of slavery...
While many Americans are familiar with the histories of slavery and Jim Crow, we often don’t understand how the rules of those eras undergird today’s economy, reproducing the same racial inequities 150 years after the end of slavery and 50 years after the banning of Jim Crow segregation laws.
Most accounts of this mass suicide describe the members as...
Most accounts of this mass suicide describe the members as brainwashed dupes and overlook the Christian and socialist ideals that originally inspired People’s Temple members.
This new rapprochement with science has irrevocably altered how...
This new rapprochement with science has irrevocably altered how Christians think of God, providing a foundation from which we cannot retreat, but from which we also cannot move forward until we examine the presumptions on which it is based.
Working-class African Americans in Richmond used their cultural...
Working-class African Americans in Richmond used their cultural venues–especially the city’s legendary blues clubs–as staging grounds from which to challenge the racial status quo, with a steadfast determination not to be “Jim Crowed” in the Golden State.