Studies in American Popular History and Culture
Validating Bachelorhood: Audience, Patriarchy and Charles Brockden Brown's Editorship of the Monthly Magazine and American Review
1st Edition
By Scott Slawinski
May 01, 2013
This book explores images of single and married men in C.B. Brown's Monthly Magazine and concludes that Brown used his periodical as a vehicle for validating bachelorhood as a viable alternative form of masculinity....
Black Women in New South Literature and Culture
1st Edition
By Sherita L. Johnson
March 11, 2013
Using the "the Negro Problem" in African American literature as a point of departure, this book focuses on the profound impact that racism had on the literary imagination of black Americans, specifically those in the South. Although the South has been one of the most enduring sites of criticism in ...
John Brown and the Era of Literary Confrontation
1st Edition
By Michael Stoneham
February 27, 2013
Radical abolitionist and freedom-fighter John Brown inspired literary America to confrontation during his short but dramatic career as a public figure in antebellum America. Emerging from obscurity during the violent struggle to determine how Kansas would enter the Union in 1856, John Brown ...
The Farm Press, Reform and Rural Change, 1895-1920
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By John J. Fry
November 14, 2012
This project contributes to our understanding of rural Midwesterners and farm newspapers at the turn of the century. While cultural historians have mainly focused on readers in town and cities, it examines Midwestern farmers. It also contributes to the "new rural history" by exploring the ideas of ...
Daughters of Eve: Pregnant Brides and Unwed Mothers in Seventeenth Century Essex County, Massachusetts
1st Edition
By Else L. Hambleton
October 29, 2012
This study examines cases of fornication, bastardy, and paternity cases brought before the courts in Essex County, Massachusetts between 1640 and 1692. Prosecution and conviction rates, sentencing patterns, and socio-economic data, as well as attitudes, were analyzed to determine that women who ...
Narrative, Political Unconscious and Racial Violence in Wilmington, North Carolina
1st Edition
By Leslie Hossfeld
October 29, 2012
This work examines the counter-narratives of social actors that may be used as resources to promote and create social change, particularly racial change. A policy implication emanating from this research is to institute an educational component for the North Carolina public school curriculum that ...
The Quiet Revolutionaries: How the Grey Nuns Changed the Social Welfare Paradigm of Lewiston, Maine
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By Susan Hudson
September 25, 2012
The book recognizes the achievements by a nineteenth-century community of women religious, the Grey Nuns of Lewiston, Maine. The founding of their hospital was significant in its time as the first hospital in that factory city; and is significant today if one desires a more accurate and inclusive ...
America's Fight Over Water: The Environmental and Political Effects of Large-Scale Water Systems
1st Edition
By Kevin Wehr
September 10, 2012
This book inquires into the relations between society and its natural environment by examining the historical discourse around several cases of state building in the American West: the construction of three high dams from 1928 to 1963....
Books and Libraries in American Society during World War II: Weapons in the War of Ideas
1st Edition
By Patti Clayton Becker
September 10, 2012
World War II presented America's public libraries with the daunting challenge of meeting new demands for war-related library services and materials with Depression-weakened collections, inadequate budgets and demoralized staff, in addition to continuing to serve the library's traditional clientele ...
Great Depression and the Middle Class: Experts, Collegiate Youth and Business Ideology, 1929-1941
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By Mary C. McComb
September 10, 2012
Great Depression and the Middle Class: Experts, Collegiate Youth and Business Ideology, 1929-1941 explores how middle-class college students navigated the rocky terrain of Depression-era culture, job market, dating marketplace, prospective marriage prospects, and college campuses by using ...
Labor and Laborers of the Loom: Mechanization and Handloom Weavers, 1780-1840
1st Edition
By Gail Fowler Mohanty
September 10, 2012
Labor and Laborers of the Loom: Mechanization and Handloom Weavers 1780-1840 develops several themes important to understanding the social, cultural and economic implications of industrialization. The examination of these issues within a population of extra-factory workers distinguishes this study....
The Literature of Immigration and Racial Formation: Becoming White, Becoming Other, Becoming American in the Late Progressive Era
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By Linda Joyce Brown
September 10, 2012
This work examines early twentieth-century literature about women immigrants in order to reveal the differing ways that American racial categories and identities, particularly that of whiteness, were textually and socially constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century....