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America's slave past is being analyzed as never before, yet it remains one of the most contentious issues in U.S. memory.

Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age.

"Now that we 'curate' even lunch, what happens to the role of the connoisseur in contemporary culture' 'Curate' is now a buzzword applied to everything from music fest

Lev Davidovich Trotsky burst onto the world stage in November 1917 as co-leader of a Marxist Revolution seizing power in Russia.

Gutenberg's invention of movable type in the fifteenth century introduced an era of mass communication that permanently altered the structure of society.

In this long-awaited book from the rising superstar of sportswriting, whose blog "The Edge of Sports" is read each week by thousands of people across the country, Dave Zirin offers a riot

Most people outside of the art world view art as something that is foreign to their experiences and everyday lives.

In a blend of economic, social, and political history, P Le Blanc shows how important labor issues have been, and continue to be, in the forging of our nation's history.

Chronicling the intertwined lives of members of core grunge bands, Justin Henderson reveals the origins and inspirations of the grunge music movement.

For nearly sixty years, Bud Furillo wrote and talked about sports in Southern California.

Written in 1968 and revised in 1972, Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom was the first book to celebrate the language and the primal essence of rock 'n' roll. But it was much more than that.

In Unspeakable Histories, William Guynn focuses on the sensation of encountering past events through film.

For the past two decades, young women (and men) have found their way to feminism through Riot Grrrl.

What does it mean to think about Dallas in relationship to Dallas' In The History of the Future, McPherson reexamines American places and the space between history, experience, and myth.

Chinese food first became popular in America under the shadow of violence against Chinese aliens, a despised racial minority ineligible for United States citizenship.