What does democracy look like? And when should we cause trouble to pursue it? "Troublemakers" fuses photography and history to demonstrate how racial and economic inequality gave rise to a decades-long struggle for justice in one American city. In di...

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! On the thirtieth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution that toppled the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia from November to December 1989, this book gathers dissident academics, a student l...

When Juliette Kinzie first visited Chicago in 1831, it was anything but a city. An outpost in the shadow of Fort Dearborn, it had no streets, no sidewalks, no schools, no river-spanning bridges. And with two hundred disconnected residents, it lacked...

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this collection of writings produced between 2000 and 2018, the pioneering literary historian of the Czech underground, Martin Machovec, examines the multifarious nature of the undergro...

In European and Holocaust historiography, it is generally believed that neither the Zionist movement nor the Yishuv were mindful of the plight of European Jews in the face of the Nazi threat during the 1930s. Drawing on a wide variety of memoirs, let...