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Feuding in Texas and New Mexico
For decades the Horrell brothers of Lampasas, Texas, have been portrayed as ruthless killers and outlaws, but author David Johnson paints a different ...
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"Most Americans first heard of Michael Harrington with the publication of The Other America, his seminal book on American poverty. Isserman expertly t...
How the World's Most Viral Media Is Changing Social Protest and Power
A global exploration of internet memes as agents of pop culture, politics, protest, and propaganda on- and offline, and how they will save or destroy ...
Early Radio and the American Public
During the Jazz Age and Great Depression, radio broadcasters did not conjure their listening public with a throw of a switch; the public had a hand in...
Fifth ed.- published in 7 vols.: Who's who in biotechnology; Who's who in chemistry & plastics; Who's who in civil engineering, earth sciences & energ...
President Obama, Year One
Barack Obama’s inauguration as president on January 20, 2009, inspired the world. But the great promise of "Change We Can Believe In" was immediatel...
Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power Movement
The first book-length biography of Richard Oakes, a Red Power activist of the 1960s who was a leader in the Alcatraz takeover and the Red Power Indige...
African American Athletic Activism in Post-World War II America
With essays by Ron Briley, Michael Ezra, Sarah K. Fields, Billy Hawkins, Jorge Iber, Kurt Kemper, Michael E. Lomax, Samuel O. Regalado, Richard Santil...
This is a book for museum professionals and museology students: for serious historians who want to look beyond their usual documentary sources. It is ...
The World of Joe McCarthy
Few politicians in our history have had the emotional impact of Joe McCarthy and acclaimed historian David Oshinsky’s chronicling of his life has be...
Apprentice Painters & Sculptors in the Early Modern British Tradition
Before the foundation of academies of art in London in 1758 and Philadelphia in 1805, most individuals who were to emerge as artists trained in worksh...
Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress
The National Shrine and Catholic Presence in the Nation's Capital
The National Shrine in Washington, DC has been deeply loved, blithely ignored, and passionately criticized. It has been praised as a "dazzling jewel" ...
Activism in the Community
Much of the history of Mexican American educational reform efforts has focused on campaigns to eliminate discrimination in public schools. However, as...
The Life and Times of an American Original
The first full biography of Thelonious Monk, written by a brilliant historian, with full access to the family's archives and with dozens of interviews...
Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida
Connolly argues that Americans, immigrants, and even indigenous people, between the 1890s and the 1960s, made tremendous investments in racial aparthe...
Lessons of a Corporate Culture in Action
IBM was the world’s leading provider of information technologies for much of the twentieth century. What made it so successful for such a long time,...
Cultures of Discretion in Tudor-Stuart England
"The book trade, she argues, created many intriguing and paradoxical uses for anonymity, even as the authorial name became more marketable. Among eccl...
The Hopes and Fears that Shape New Technologies
For as long as people have developed new technologies, there has been debate over the purposes, shape, and potential for their use. In this exciting c...
The Life of Washington Irving
Washington Irving-author, ambassador, and Manhattanite-has largely slipped from America's memory, and yet, his creations are well known. Acclaimed his...
POWs, MIAs, and the Unending Vietnam War
Reveals how wartime loss in the Vietnam War transformed U.S. politics, arguing that the effort to recover lost warriors was as much a means to establi...
Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture
The American labor movement seemed poised on the threshold of unparalleled success at the beginning of the post-World War II era. Fourteen million str...
The CIA and the Filming of Animal Farm
Film and cinema....
Containing Many Thousand Concise Memoirs of Persons who Have Died Since the Year 1850, with an Index of the Most Interesting Matter
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art....
Technology, Culture, and the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP
How technically enhanced studio recordings revolutionized music and the music industry. In Chasing Sound, Susan Schmidt Horning traces the cultural an...
Interventions in Contemporary Political Debate
In an age when Jon Stewart frequently tops lists of most-trusted newscasters, the films of Michael Moore become a dominant topic of political campaign...
History and Art in Historical Crime Fiction
Readers of detective stories are turning more toward historical crime fiction to learn both what everyday life was like in past societies and how soci...
Catholic Action before and after Vatican II
The early 1960s were a heady time for Catholic laypeople. Pope Pius XII’s assurance “You do not belong to the Church. You are the Church” embold...
Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South
Challenging traditional assumptions about the plantation economy's reliance on a pre-modern, nature-based conception of time, Mark M. Smith shows how ...
The Four Corners and the Metropolitan West, 1945-1970
Until World War II, the Four Corners Region—where New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona meet—was a collection of isolated rural towns. In the po...
Richmond, Virginia and Its People
A study of nearly four hundred years in the history of Richmond, Virginia, ranges from the first encounters between English colonists and Powhatan to ...