From the 1880s to the 1930s, hundreds of Wild West shows encouraged white audiences to view Native American culture as a rapidly vanishing curiosity.

During the Cold War, philanthropic paternalism put Mexican American grassroots activists in the American Southwest at odds with East Coast funding institutions.

Like their zoot suit-wearing male counterparts, young Mexican American women rebelled against white, mainstream culture through bold fashion choices.

Signed February 2, 1848, the treaty compelled Mexico to cede 55 percent of its territory, bringing more than 525,000 square miles under US sovereignty.

As the craft beer industry reckons with its oppressive past, it may be time to re-examine the complicated history (and present) of hops in the United States

The participation of white mothers in the "bitter robbery" of Indigenous children from their families was a cruel irony in the colonialist programs of the US and Australia.

Buffalo Soldiers were assigned to assess bicycles as military transportation on the frontier at the end of the nineteenth century.

This non-exhaustive list of readings on the role of guns in US history and society introduces the field as a subject of scholarly inquiry.

The popular conspiracy theory has intriguing parallels with classic noir by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett.

Colonial education administrators recruited teachers from the mainland, but soon realized another strategy was in order.