Overview :The 1950s, 60s, and 70s saw some of the most defining moments in our nation's history, and Detroit remained at the forefront during these de... Read More
Overview :Films produced in late 1960s and early 1970s America--along with later films focusing on that period--continue to frame our understanding of... Read More
Overview :Berkeley, California stood at the center of the political, social, and cultural upheaval that made the 1960s a unique period in American his... Read More
Overview :The Chicago Outfit, which evolved from the Capone gang at the end of Prohibition, became the most successful of the Cosa Nostra crime famili... Read More
Overview :From Wonder Bowls to Ice-Tup molds to Party Susans, Tupperware has become an icon of suburban living. Tracing the fortunes of Earl Tupper's ... Read More
Overview :New York City witnessed a dazzling burst of creativity in the 1920s. In this pathbreaking study, Carol J. Oja explores this artistic renaiss... Read More
Overview :Often considered a lost decade, a pause between the liberal Sixties and Reagan's Eighties, the 1970s were indeed a watershed era when the fo... Read More
Overview :In The Meaning of Soul, Emily J. Lordi proposes a new understanding of this famously elusive concept. In the 1960s, Lordi argues, soul came ... Read More
Overview :In this impressive book, Barbara Keys offers the first major study of the political and cultural ramifications of international sports compe... Read More
Overview :This bold re-examination of the history of U.S. economic growth is built around a novel claim, that productive capacity grew dramatically ac... Read More
Overview :Paris has long been a storied center of art and culture, and of romance, but in the 1920s its magnetism was especially irresistible. From ar... Read More
Overview :The U.S. Marine Corps is very proud of its history, tradition, and heritage. Every Marine is taught to be proud from the beginning of boot c... Read More
Overview :This book presents a pathbreaking study of Soviet popular cinema in the 1920s. Professor Youngblood focuses on commercial directors, acting ... Read More
Overview :The American commitment to international human rights emerged in the 1970s not as a logical outgrowth of American idealism but as a surprisi... Read More
Overview :What began at colleges in the sixties as a rejection of parental authority and the Vietnam War rapidly evolved into a social movement, one w... Read More
Overview :During the 1976 Bicentennial celebration, millions of Americans engaged with the past in brand-new ways. They became absorbed by historical ... Read More
Overview :During the 1970s, American foreign policy faced a predicament of clashing imperatives-US decision makers, already struggling to maintain sta... Read More
Overview :New York City, 1925 Florence Winters is ready to escape the whispers about her. At twenty-three, being unmarried is almost unheard of in sma... Read More
Overview :Stealing the Show is a study of African American actors in Hollywood during the 1930s, a decade that saw the consolidation of stardom as a p... Read More