The gripping story of the 1950s polio scare and of the intense-and intensely bitter-competition to find the first vaccine. von Oshinsky, David M.

Drawing on police records, prison documents, folkore, blues songs, and oral history, a distinguished historian takes a close-up look at Mississippi's Parchman State Penitentiary and Jim Crow justice, from the era of the cottonfield chain...

Few politicians in our history have had the emotional impact of Joe McCarthy and acclaimed historian David Oshinsky’s chronicling of his life has been called both “nuanced” and “masterful.” Here, David Oshinsky presents us with a work...