Overview :This study of feminist labor reform examines how working women pursued equality by claiming new identities for themselves as citizens and as... Read More
Overview :Yesterday's Addicts: American Society and Drug Abuse 1865-1920 examines the roots of drug abuse in the United States from the end of the Civ... Read More
Overview :The term culture in its anthropological sense did not enter the American lexicon with force until after 1910-more than a century after Herde... Read More
Overview :Histories of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era tend to characterize the United States as an expansionist nation bent on Americanizing the w... Read More
Overview :In A Brotherhood of Liberty, Dennis Patrick Halpin shifts the focus of the black freedom struggle from the Deep South to argue that Baltimor... Read More
Overview :This study takes a fresh look at the origins of modern journalism's ideals and political practices. The book also provides fresh insights in... Read More
Overview :Southerners may have abandoned their dream of a political nation after Appomattox, but they preserved their cultural identity by blending Ch... Read More
Overview :The Praying South and the Fighting South are two of our most popular images of white southern culture. In Subduing Satan, Ted Ownby details ... Read More
Overview :Historians have long recognized the influence of Darwinism and German idealism on late Victorian intellectual discourse. In Positivist Repub... Read More
Overview :Between 1865 and 1920, Congress passed laws to regulate obscenity, sexuality, divorce, gambling, and prizefighting. It forced Mormons to aba... Read More
Overview :The use and abuse of military history is the theme of this book. Historian Carol Reardon scrutinizes the Army's relationship to its own hist... Read More
Overview :Richard A. Schwarzlose's long-awaited two-volume The Nation's Newsbrokers makes a major contribution to the history of journalism in the Uni... Read More
Overview :This volume is one of a series of five prepared by various authors, designed to be useful and instructive regarding the long history of the ... Read More
Overview :An examination of the cultural evolution of the Jamaican people after the explosive uprising at Morant Bay in 1865. For the first time, the ... Read More