Street Justice traces the stunning history of police brutality in New York City, and the antibrutality movements that sought to eradicate it, from just after the Civil War ...

Generations of Americans have developed an image of violence in the “Wild West” through books and films. But what conditions really resulted in violence on the American ...

Historians commonly point to the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act as the inception of a new chapter in the story of American immigration. This wide-ranging ...

How the diverse populations of urban California joined hands to defeat totalitarianism during World War II.

The industrialization of the American West during World War II brought about rapid and far-reaching social, cultural, and economic changes. Gerald D. Nash shows that the effect ...