Babyn Yar brings together the responses to the tragic events of September 1941. Presented here in the original and in…

In six lectures covering everything from James Bond to antisemitic conspiracy theories, Umberto Eco offers a master class in…

\nThe Katrina disaster was not a weather event of summer 2005. It was a disaster a century in the making, a product of…

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\nThroughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons. Joshua Bennett explores the place of…

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\nIn Ukraine, War, Love, award-winning fiction writer Olena Stiazhkina chronicles day-to-day developments in her beloved…

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\nBobby Kennedy wasn’t the most visible figure in the civil rights movement, but his impact was transformative. As attorney…

\nIn antebellum New Orleans, whites and Blacks died in droves from yellow fever. But the fortunes of survivors were less…

\nWith Congress paralyzed, lawmaking falls to executive agencies and courts that interpret existing statutes. Due to the…

By the late 19th century Odessa was the most polyglot and cosmopolitan city in the empire. In the first decades of the 20th…

In Lost Tongues of the Red River, John D. Phan uncovers the history of a Sinitic language rooted in the Red River Plain of…

\nBefore the Communists came to power, China lay broken. Today it is a global force, but its leaders are haunted by the…

\nThe authors explain why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and show his Machiavellian role in masterminding it (which…

\nThe Russia-China border is a study in contrasts, with booming cities on the Chinese side and sleepy villages on the…

Eugene Fishel asks whether, how, and under what circumstances the United States has considered Ukraine’s sovereignty in…

This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a…

\nThe first biography of Zelia Nuttall (1857-1933), a pioneering Mexican-American anthropologist whose work on Aztec…

\nElizabeth Ingleson explores the roots of bilateral trade between the United States and China. Telling the story of the…

\nWith Congress paralyzed, lawmaking falls to executive agencies and courts that interpret existing statutes. Due to the…

A representation of Irish poetic achievement in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from poets such as Austin Clarke…

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\nIn Ukraine, War, Love, award-winning fiction writer Olena Stiazhkina chronicles day-to-day developments in her beloved…

\nLaura J. Martin examines ecological restoration\'s long history. Since the early 1900s, restorationists have confronted…

\nAvant-Garde Post– follows seven Russophone poets as they reinvigorate leftist art in the wake of state socialism.…

The California Gold Rush is thought to exemplify the Wild West, yet miners were expert organizers. Driven by property…

\nNo major economy is more dependent on fossil fuel exports than Russia, yet it is unprepared for the global transition away…

\nMargarita Fajardo tells the story of the cepalinos, Latin American economists and policymakers, and their dependentista…

\nNational security once was not limited to physical defense. FDR equated national security with safety from foreign attack…

\nZongyuan Zoe Liu provides the first in-depth examination of sovereign funds in China. Under President Xi, the state has…

\nIn the age of tenure-denial lawsuits and free speech battles, colleges and universities face more intense legal pressures…

\nVietnam focuses on how the country\'s governance shapes its politics, economy, social development, and international…

\nSamantha Kelly tells the story of Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims in sixteenth-century Rome. The only African community in…

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A longstanding tradition holds that universities in early modern Italy suffered from cultural sclerosis and long-term…

By shedding light on a long-forgotten epigraphic genre called “genealogical steles” that flourished in North China…

\nThe Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art is the first comprehensive survey of the visual representation…