A close investigation of aerial war and atmospheric violence through artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan's newly commissioned audio and video installation. This publication documents the creation of a new work by artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan (b. 1985) for the...

A dynamic history of life in turn-of-the-century Warsaw through the eyes of a young woman and her Jewish family who converted to Catholicism. When Alicja Lewental's parents came of age in the middle of the nineteenth century, they believed they did...

A collection of essays that think with, against, and beside the intellectual questions that have engaged Michael Ann Holly throughout her storied career. American scholar Michael Ann Holly (b. 1944) has devoted a decades-long career to the historio...

A moving and humane portrait of the abolitionist revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who led Haiti's fight for independence from French colonial rule. "My name has become a horror to all those who want slavery", declared Jean-Jacques Dessalines...

From an award-winning biographer, a riveting and deeply researched portrait of Mormonism's charismatic founder. Joseph Smith Jr. (1805-1844) was one of the most successful and controversial religious leaders of nineteenth-century America, publishin...

How Africa's most notorious tyrant made his oppressive regime seem both necessary and patriotic. Idi Amin ruled Uganda between 1971 and 1979, inflicting tremendous violence on the people of the country. How did Amin's regime survive for eight calam...

A showcase of a collection spanning from Old Master prints to innovative contemporary works. Arthur and Marny Solomon assembled a superlative art collection spanning Old Master prints, nineteenth-century French paintings, and trailblazing contempor...

This survey of the life and work of American painter Susan Watkins explores how she and other women artists carved paths to success at the turn of the twentieth century. In a career that spanned only a little more than fifteen years, American artis...

A thought-provoking account of the life and work of Franz Boas and his influential role in shaping modern anthropology. Franz Boas (1858-1942) is widely acknowledged for his pioneering work in the field of cultural anthropology. His rigorous studie...