Crowd Control tells the story of how efforts to contain Black resistance led to the invention of American literary excellence.
I’m Glad I’m Not Me explores Bob Dylan’s appearances and depictions on screen, offering a new view of the life and work of one of the most influential yet least knowable celebrities in American history.
Bryan E. Norwood tells the story of how a small group of architects built a profession amid the powerful forces of capitalism and religious faith in the antebellum United States.
In the early sixteenth century, a Persian-speaking Muslim merchant traveled to China and stayed for six years. In a treatise presented to the rulers of the Ottoman Empire, he laid out his observations—here translated in full into English for the first time.
Drawing on social media posts, digital stories, and book reviews collected in real time, Richard Jean So shows how BLM’s online surge was shaped and ultimately constrained by platform logics that prize entertainment and pleasure, not accountability.
Through the case of precision medicine, Larry Au shows how global and national forms of science cooperate, compete, and come into conflict with one another, producing what he calls hybrid science.