The ''holy poor'' have long maintained an elite status within Christianity. Differing from the ''...

The first biography of one of Virginia's greatest social reformers

The globetrotting champion of the oppressed who shook his fist at the world in an era of profound...

How a fascination with animal consciousness, perception, and intelligence shaped American fiction...

How James Madison and the milieu of the Virginia countryside he called home shaped one another

On the importance, and economic survival, of historic houses and their gardens and parks

The definitive guidebook to celebrated and obscure cemeteries in and around the nation's capital

A groundbreaking feminist and decolonial reading of Édouard Glissant

In 1759, William Preston purchased sixteen enslaved Africans brought to America aboard the True B...

How Spanish and Portuguese colonialism shaped our conception of whiteness

The first historical study of the medicinal mani pill and its profound spiritual significance in ...

A fresh look at the conversations and interactions of Native Americans and French as recorded in ...