ACLS Humanities EBook results - page 1 of 1

Skip to main content

Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Search and Browse Books

Filtering by: Publisher Basic Books

Start Over

Not finding what you are looking for? Help improve Fulcrum's search and share your feedback.

And we are not saved: the elusive quest for racial justice

Derrick Bell

Faces at the bottom of the well: the permanence of racism

Derrick Bell

The half has never been told: slavery and the making of American capitalism

Edward E Baptist

Holler if you hear me: searching for Tupac Shakur

Michael Eric Dyson

The hip hop generation: young Blacks and the crisis in African American culture

Bakari Kitwana

Total chaos: the art and aesthetics of hip-hop

Jeff Chang

The hip hop wars: what we talk about when we talk about hip hop--and why it matters

Tricia Rose

Know what I mean?: reflections on hip-hop

Michael Eric Dyson, Jay-Z and Nas

Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin

Timothy Snyder

Local knowledge: further essays in interpretive anthropology

Clifford Geertz

The long summer: how climate changed civilization

Brian M. Fagan

The Little Ice Age: how climate made history 1300-1850

Brian M Fagan

Floods, famines, and emperors: El Niño and the fate of civilizations

Brian M Fagan

Fish on Friday: feasting, fasting, and the discovery of the New World

Brian M. Fagan

When smoke ran like water: tales of environmental deception and the battle against pollution

Devra Lee Davis

Religion explained: the evolutionary origins of religious thought

Pascal Boyer

Homosexuality and American psychiatry: the politics of diagnosis

Ronald Bayer

The Diligent: a voyage through the worlds of the slave trade

Robert W. Harms

Michael Faraday: a biography

L. Pearce Williams

The rise of Napoleon Bonaparte

Robert B Asprey

Crime and punishment in American history

Lawrence Meir Friedman

Letters to a young actor: a universal guide to performance

Robert Sanford Brustein

Beethoven's anvil: music in mind and culture

William Benzon

Gay L.A: a history of sexual outlaws, power politics, and lipstick lesbians

Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons

The trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's first Black poet and her encounters with the founding fathers

Henry Louis Gates

Sonic boom: Napster, MP3, and the new pioneers of music

John Alderman

The original knickerbocker: the life of Washington Irving

Andrew Burstein

In search of the blues

Marybeth Hamilton

The cigarette century: the rise, fall, and deadly persistence of the product that defined America

Allan M. Brandt

Parents and children in history: the psychology of family life in early modern France

David Hunt

In sickness and in wealth: American hospitals in the twentieth century

Rosemary Stevens

The health of the country: how American settlers understood themselves and their land

Conevery Bolton Valenčius

The living & the dead: the rise and fall of the cult of World War II in Russia

Nina Tumarkin

Political history: principles and practice

G. R. Elton

A problem from hell: America and the age of genocide

Samantha Power

The settlement of the Americas: a new prehistory

Tom D Dillehay

American manhood: transformations in masculinity from the Revolution to the modern era

E. Anthony Rotundo

The right to vote: the contested history of democracy in the United States

Alexander Keyssar

From know-how to nowhere: the development of American technology

Elting Elmore Morison

The troubled crusade: American education, 1945-1980

Diane Ravitch

The great cat massacre and other episodes in French cultural history

Robert Darnton

Homeward bound: American families in the Cold War era

Elaine Tyler May

The Renaissance rediscovery of linear perspective

Samuel Y. Jr. Edgerton

The interpretation of cultures: selected essays

Clifford Geertz

Lean and mean: the changing landscape of corporate power in the age of flexibility

Bennett Harrison

Summer for the gods: the Scopes trial and America's continuing debate over science and religion

Edward J. Larson

Labor of love, labor of sorrow: Black women, work, and the family from slavery to the present

Jacqueline Jones

Gay New York: gender, urban culture, and the makings of the gay male world, 1890-1940

George Chauncey

The Fascist experience: Italian society and culture, 1922-1945

Edward R. Tannenbaum

The Social Transformation of American Medicine

Paul Starr