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Liberal arts colleges represent a tiny portion of the higher education market—no more than two percent of enrollees. Yet they produce a stunningly large percentage of America’s leaders in virtually every field of endeavor. A former college president trained in law and economics, Victor E.

In early 1860, pundits across America confidently predicted the election of Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas in the coming presidential race. Douglas, after all, led the only party that bridged North and South.

In Apollo’s Angels, dance critic and historian Jennifer Homans traces the history of ballet from its birth in the sixteenth-century French courts to its impending death at the hands of contemporary choreography.

Between 1860 and 1960, a stunning 20% of Québec's total French-speaking population of five million people left the province, many in well-documented waves of economic migration to Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.

French Canadians who settled in Illinois during the 18th century carved out distinctive, ribbon-like fields for their farms, which are still clearly visible on Google Maps.

In American Rose, Karen Abbott chronicles the tale of burlesque queen Gypsy Rose Lee and her ascent to stardom in Depression-era America.

Canadian historian Jean Lamarre examines the remarkable mobility of French Canadians from Quebec to the American Midwest and how they adopted and adapted to their new life in the United States.