In this innovative grassroots to global study, Kathleen Mapes explores how the sugar beet industry transformed the rural Midwest through the introduction of large factories,...
An Irish workingclass hero of Pittsburgh, Billy Conn captured hearts through his ebullient personality, stellar boxing record, and good looks. A light heavyweight boxing champion...
The important role of the Temperance movement throughout American history is analyzed as clashes and conflicts between rival social systems, cultures, and status groups. Sometimes...
In 1770 There Were Fewer Than 1,000 Methodists In America. Fifty Years Later, The Church Counted More Than 250,000 Adherents. Identifying Methodism As America'S Most...
Alex Carey Documents The Twentiethcentury History Of Corporate Propaganda As Practiced By U.S. Businesse, And Its Export To And Adoption By Western Democracies Like The...
Based on a collection of fiftytwo vignettes of Illinois history originally published as weekly columns in newspapers and revised for publication in book form, Tales...
Writing case records was central to the professionalization of social work, a task that by its very nature 'created clients, authorities, problems, and solutions.' In...
Writing case records was central to the professionalization of social work, a task that by its very nature 'created clients, authorities, problems, and solutions.' In...
From the union's formation in 1937 until the 1960s, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) was the largest and most influential teachers' union in the country....
Charting The Evolution Of Practicing Digital Historyhistorians Have Seen Their Field Transformed By The Digital Age. Research Agendas, Teaching And Learning, Scholarly Communication, The Nature...
In this unique collection of stories and personal interviews, folklorist Margaret Read MacDonald examines storytelling through the distinct voices of the tellers themselves. Ten Traditional...
Yiddishspeaking Jewish immigrants brought a rich heritage of musical expression to the United States. On Manhattan's Lower East Side, a thriving Yiddish theater scene developed,...
For a director who has made a limited number of feature films over fourplus decades, Terrence Malick sustains an extraordinary reputation as one of Americas...
In the 1920s and 1930s, Chicago became a center for jazz and blues, vaudeville, and a budding recording industry. Not surprisingly, the city and its...
Chicago'S 1933 World'S Fair Set A New Direction For International Expositions. Earlier Fairs Had Exhibited Technological Advances, But Chicago'S Fair Organizers Used The Very Idea...
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In an era when college football coaches frequently command higher salaries than university presidents, many call for reform to restore the balance between amateur athletics...
Though polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have been banned in the United States for more than thirty years, the toxic effects of their presence in local environments...
American Pentecostalism began as a culturally isolated sect intent upon announcing the imminence of the world's end. The sect's early millenarian fervor gradually became muted...
Americans have revered prowess in sports going back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Nancy L. Struna explores the significance, meaning, and structure of competitive...
Despite Growing Interest In Her Philosophy, Simone De Beauvoir Remains Widely Misunderstood. She Is Typically Portrayed As A Mere Intellectual Follower Of Her Companion, Jeanpaul...
Moving pictures existed for over a decade before anything resembling a star system appeared. Then, within the space of a very few years, American cinema...
This wideranging collection explores the relations between photojournalism and history, investigating how photographs shape both what we remember and how we remember. Contributors discuss dramatic...
In Playing the Changes, Craig Hansen Werner presents a polyrhythmic approach to the continuities and discontinuities of the American literary tradition. He focuses on the...
Catherine and Darius Brubecks 1983 move to South Africa launched them on a journey that helped transform jazz education. Blending biography with storytelling, the pair...
This volume is the first of its kind to collect classic and contemporary work focused on the intersection of poetry and cultural studies, reaching from...
This volume is the first of its kind to collect classic and contemporary work focused on the intersection of poetry and cultural studies, reaching from...
"One of our very finestpoets in full stride." HarvardReview, on Adjustingto the LightA 1995 recipient of the AcademyAward in Literature of the American Academy of...
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