Activities and workshops to facilitate discussion with young people around consent, sex and related topics.

The first-ever book devoted to close analysis of the modern, multimillion-dollar cult classic franchise

A timely exploration of grassroots political protest in the age of Trump

A critical study of the career of the nineteenth-century bishop

A humorous and honest graphic memoir of growing up and navigating life as asexual.

How policy can transform music and how musicians and performances create lasting bonds

The first in-depth intellectual history of funk music and its growth out of the blues tradition

A thorough assay of the painstaking process that delivers a state budget

Christina Friberg investigates the influence of Cahokia, the largest city of North America’s Mississippian culture between AD 1050 and 1350, on smaller communities throughout the midcontinent. This book offers a new, more nuanced interpretation of how and why Mississippian lifeways developed.

Tracing the development of the field of southern women’s history over the past half century, this book shows how pioneering feminists laid the foundation for a strong community of sister scholars and delves into the work of an organization central to this movement, the Southern Association for Women Historians.

This biography follows the life of Chesterfield Smith, a defining Florida figure who led the Florida Bar, masterminded the drafting of a new state constitution, and spearheaded the American Bar Association’s condemnation of Richard M. Nixon during the Watergate scandal.

The first volume to focus on suburbs and sustainability in the United States, this collection approaches the topic through regionally diverse case studies, showing that activism and leadership are currently advancing a strong sustainability agenda in regions many would have believed unlikely.

This volume examines the everyday lives of enslaved and free workers at Morne Patate, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Caribbean plantation, helping document the under-represented history of slavery and colonialism on the edge of the British Empire.

The first biography of Hollywood’s political matchmaker, kingmaker, and MGM’s movie star maker

Australian novelist Julienne van Loon engages with eight world-renowned female intellectuals, writers, and activists to consider what philosophy might teach us about ethics, politics, and the nature of existence, and how might we relate these big ideas back to the smaller everyday concerns of domestic life, work, play, love, and relationships.

A critical analysis of the often-understudied environmentalist literature of the mid-twentieth century

A unique, insider perspective on race relations in a great American music

Twenty-seven interviews and profiles ranging over more than five decades that tell Mike Nichols’s and Elaine May’s stories in their own words

The first full-length biography of the long-serving politician whose legislation on voting rights and immigration shaped modern America

Students who attended desegregated schools in the 1980s actively engaged to make integration work while navigating segregated boundaries. Crossing Segregated Boundaries details the struggles that students, schools, and communities undergo to integrate, and highlights how Chicago’s implementation of desegregation focused on school choice and used public transportation to avert busing protests.