All Projects

A Most Stirring and Significant Episode

Religion and the Rise and Fall of Prohibition in Black Atlanta, 1865–1887

Mourning in America

Race and the Politics of Loss

Moving Up, Moving Out

The Rise of the Black Middle Class in Chicago

The Muriel Rukeyser Era

Selected Prose

A National Park for Women's Rights

The Campaign That Made It Happen

Near the Forest, By the Lake

Discovering Nature Close to Home

Nelson Rockefeller's Dilemma

The Fight to Save Moderate Republicanism

New Deal Ruins

Race, Economic Justice, and Public Housing Policy

No Useless Mouth

Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution

The One-Way Street of Integration

Fair Housing and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in American Cities

Out of Oakland

Black Panther Party Internationalism during the Cold War

Ovid's Tragic Heroines

Gender Abjection and Generic Code-Switching

Perilous Wagers

Gambling, Dignity, and Day Laborers in Twenty-First-Century Tokyo

Philosophy at the Gymnasium

Plato's "Letters"

The Political Challenges of the Philosophic Life

The Politics of Emotion

Love, Grief, and Madness in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia

The Province of All Mankind

How Outer Space Became American Foreign Policy

Public Housing Myths

Perception, Reality, and Social Policy

Race and Rights

Fighting Slavery and Prejudice in the Old Northwest, 1830-1870

The Racial Contract