"Popular histories of organized crime in the United States often look to the "Mafia" and the sons of early twentieth-century immigrants--such as Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, and Meyer Lansky--for their origins. In this second edition of Organized Crime and American Power, Michael Woodiwiss...

"Coal Citizenship places coal miners at the center of a sweeping history of the modern United States. Drawing on extensive archival research, it argues that miners' labors, activism, and deaths have been foundational to how the United States makes energy policy and how Americans understand their...