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On July 4th, 1876, during the centennial celebration of U.S. independence, the city of Key West held a different type of celebration. In some areas in post-Civil War Florida, Black residents were hindered from 4th of July festivities, which would lead to reflecting on the events of the Civil War. However, Key West's celebration, led by a Cuban revolutionary mayor working in concert with a city council composed of Afro-Bahamians, Cubans, Africa...

An ethnography and media analysis of LGBT+ activism in São Paulo during Brazil's conservative turnfrom 2010 to 2018.

As the Western began to flourish in literature, it also began to appear in illustrations and early comic strips of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. William Grady charts the history of the genre in comic strips and books from its origins in this period through its mid-century heyday to its gradual decline in the '60s and '70s, ending with a brief look at the current 'afterlife' of Western comics over the last few decades. In doing so, he...

How superhero narratives in the margins of the mainstream tell innovative, feminist stories.

In The Earth That Modernism Built, architectural historian Kenny Cupers provides an intellectual history of the relationship between modernism and the project of colonial settlement in the context of Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany. In particular, he explores the ways that early twentieth-century modernist architects transposed nineteenth-century ideas from realms such as biology and soil research into the analysis and design of spatial, aesthet...

The first study of Christian murals created by indigenous artists in sixteenth and seventeenth century Yucatán.

A comprehensive examination of the history and excavation of the Etruscan city of Arretium.

An ethnography and media analysis of LGBT+ activism in São Paulo during Brazil's conservative turnfrom 2010 to 2018.

Rewrites the history of architectural modernism for an age of environmental crisis and enduring colonialism.

A study of transnational identity, migration, and state loyalties told through the social and political history of Iran's Khuzestan province.

A social history of alcohol, identity, secularism, and modernization from the late Ottoman and early Turkish republican eras to the present day.

As the Mexican army crossed the Rio Grande in early 1836, communities in the south-central portions of Texas began to leave the area. After the Alamo fell in March of 1836, Sam Houston dispatched couriers to carry the news across Texas. Frightened Texians used any means of transportation, or none at all, to leave, often without any preparation. The mass evacuation congealed as groups, including soldiers, helped one another toward the Sabine Ri...

The first study of the Fort Worth Narcotic Farm, an institution that played a critical role in fusing the War on Drugs, mass incarceration, and public health in the American West.

Throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s, in the wake of the installation of Brazil's military dictatorship, artists and art collectives in Brazil used their work to critique the government and its sanitized images of Brazil, its use of torture, and its targeted persecutions. Mari Rodrâiguez Binnie's The Säao Paulo Neo-Avant Garde studies this art and its engagement with politics and mainstream institutions and traditions. During this period Sä...

How San Franciscans exploited natural resources such as redwood lumber to produce the first major metropolis of the American West.

A close look at the lives of working musicians who aren't the center of their stage.

A new history of Brazil told through the lens of the often-overlooked interior regions.

The essential guide to Texas's state parks and historic sites.

A new translation of El Llano en llamas, an iconic collection of short stories that changed the course of Mexican and Latin American literature.

An arresting memoir of love and unbending religion, toxicity and disease, and one family's desperate wait for a miracle that never came.