Peter C. Zimmerman has been a music writer for more than three decades, interviewing everyone from Waylon Jennings to “Bootsy” Collins, and is author of Tennessee Music: Its People and Places

Stefan L. Brandt is professor of American studies at the University of Graz in Austria. He is author of The Culture of Corporeality: Aesthetic Experience and the Embodiment of America, 1945–1960 and ...

Aleah N. Ranjitsingh is lecturer in the Africana Studies Department, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (CUNY). She holds a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies from the Institute ...

Joseph M. Murphy is the Paul J. and Chandler M. Tagliabue Distinguished Professor in Interfaith Studies and Dialogue at Georgetown University. He is author of many works on religion including Santería: ...

Ben Siegel (1925–2010) was professor of English at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona. He is coauthor (with Joseph Gaer) of The Puritan Heritage: America’s Roots in the Bible and coeditor ...

Thomas Helling, MD, is professor of surgery at University of Mississippi Medical Center and School of Medicine and headed the Division of General Surgery from 2009 to 2023. He is author of The Great War ...

It was for stage bands, for dancing, and for a jiving mood of letting go. Throughout the nation swing re-sounded with the spirit of good times.

But this pop genre, for a decade America's favorite, arose ...

Germans and African Americans, unlike other works on African Americans in Europe, examines the relationship between African Americans and one country, Germany, in great depth.

Germans and African Americans ...

Florida is blessed with a semitropical climate, beautiful inland areas, and over a thousand miles of warm seas and sandy beaches. And Floridians are every bit as colorful and diverse as the tropical foliage. ...

Amid the controversy surrounding immigration and border control, the work of California cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz (b. 1964) has delivered a resolute Latino viewpoint. Of Mexican descent, Alcaraz fights ...