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Scattered Steel: The Afterlife of the World Trade Center (Cornell UP, 2026) traces the extraordinary journey of the twisted remnants of the...
Nineteenth-century Germany invented the way we eat. Women experimenting in households, French chefs fleeing guillotines, and one of the most...
Americans are more isolated, polarized, and depressed than ever in recent memory, and yet many citizens share a deep desire for community an...
Ganja is the popular name in Hindustani, Bengali, and other South Asian languages for intoxicating substances produced from the plant specie...
Fort Bend County, Texas, looks like the America we claim to want: a suburb where Black, White, Asian, and Latinx families share cul-de-sacs,...
A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, who eventually taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Eric Hoffer wrote ph...
Immigration agents have a frontline view of the racial, economic, and legal inequalities that undocumented migration reflects—and yet most a...
This episode featured a conversation with Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana, and Sanal Mohan, three scholars in the burgeoning field of Dal...
Becoming Utopia: History, Heritage, and Sustainability in the American Midwest (U Nebraska Press, 2026) centers on the tiny community of Bis...
What role do microbes play in aquaponic farming and cultivated meat production, and how might such novel food technologies impact microbiome...
The Land of Happiness: How the Japanese Department Store Visualized Modern Life (MIT Press, 2026) explores the far-reaching influence of the...
In the aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse, Kazakhstan inherited the remnants of one of the world's most contaminated landscapes: the S...
Much scholarship has sought to decode the polarization of American culture. Eric O Silva's analysis of the public discourse on contested rea...
Some of the earliest canals in colonial America, referred to as the Inner Passage, were constructed by enslaved people living in the Lowcoun...
Outsmarting Cancer: Risk Reduction and the Power of Prevention (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026) reframes one of the most pressing medi...
As part and parcel of China’s compressed modernization, processes of state-led rural urbanization through land expropriation and rural-to-ur...
In Oklahoma, one out of every six residents is poor. One in five children lives in poverty and faces food insecurity. In Hungry Oklahoma: Co...
How Manhattan's Koreatown functions as a new ethnic enclave In the past decade, Korean entertainment has gained global recognition, with Kor...
Casting War As Love: Russian Colonialism in Familial Terms (Palgrave Macillan, 2026) by Dr. Galina Bogatova unpacks the hidden imperial logi...
The Israeli destruction of Gaza has returned the idea of genocide to the center of world politics, with sharp conflicts between the proteste...