Alice Echols reveals the ways in which disco transformed popular music, propelling it into new sonic territory and influencing rap, techno, and trance. She probes the complex relationship between disco and the era's major movements: gay...

'In 1879, fourteen years after the Emancipation Proclamation, thousands of blacks fled the South. They were headed for the homesteading lands of Kansas, the 'Garden Spot of the Earth' and the 'quintessential Free State, the land of John...

One of the most original psychoanalysts after Freud. Karen Horney was also a great teacher, with a profound influence on the training of psychoanalysts through the American Institute for Psychoanalysis which she co-founded. von Horney,...