Studies in American Popular History and Culture
Gender and the American Temperance Movement of the Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
By Holly Berkley Fletcher
February 23, 2012
During the nineteenth century, the American temperance movement underwent a visible, gendered shift in its leadership as it evolved from a male-led movement to one dominated by the women. However, this transition of leadership masked the complexity and diversity of the temperance movement. Through ...
The Struggle for Free Speech in the United States, 1872-1915: Edward Bliss Foote, Edward Bond Foote, and Anti-Comstock Operations
1st Edition
By Janice Ruth Wood
February 23, 2012
Passed in 1873, the Comstock Act banned 'obscene' materials from the mail without defining obscenity, leaving it open to interpretation by courts that were hostile to free speech. Literature that reflected changing attitudes toward sexuality, religion, and social institutions fell victim to the ...
Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City: The Literature, Art, Jazz, and Architecture of an Emerging Global Capital
1st Edition
By Robert Bennett
June 20, 2011
Situating post-WWII New York literature within the material context of American urban history, this work analyzes how literary movements such as the Beat Generation, the New York poets and Black Arts Moment criticized the spatial restructuring of post-WWII New York City....
Feminist Revolution in Literacy: Women's Bookstores in the United States
1st Edition
By Junko Onosaka
April 08, 2010
This book examines the history of women's bookstores in the US from the 1970s to the 1990s. It establishes that women's bookstores played an important role in feminism by enabling the dissemination of women's voices and thereby helping to sustain and enrich the women's movement. They improved ...
State of 'The Union': Marriage and Free Love in the Late 1800s
1st Edition
By Sandra Schroer
October 19, 2009
This study of the Free Love Movement in the mid-to-late 1800s examines the situated knowledge of women and men who participated in the movement, how they articulated the platform, and contributed to its exposure by writing and publishing their ideas, arguments and concerns. While all Free Love ...
Hollywood and Anticommunism: HUAC and the Evolution of the Red Menace, 1935-1950
1st Edition
By John J. Gladchuk
April 29, 2009
This work concentrates on tracing the evolution of the so-called "red menace" phenomenon as a means of demonstrating the correlation between growing American paranoia and the success of the anticommunist campaign (1935-1955). The House Committee on Un-American Activities 1947 investigation of ...
The Gay Liberation Youth Movement in New York: 'An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail'
1st Edition
By Stephan Cohen
April 09, 2009
Between 1966 and 1975 North American youth activists established over 35 school- and community-based gay liberation youth groups whose members sought control over their own bodies, education, and sexual and social relations. This book focuses on three groundbreaking New York City groups -- Gay ...
Popular Culture and the Enduring Myth of Chicago, 1871-1968
1st Edition
By Lisa Krissoff Boehm
December 31, 2008
This book is an examination of the image of Chicago in American popular culture between the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and Chicago's 1968 Democratic National Convention....
My Pen and My Soul Have Ever Gone Together: Thomas Paine and the American Revolution
1st Edition
By Vikki Vickers
July 07, 2008
The first true intellectual biography of Thomas Paine, this book establishes the origins of his beliefs and their influence on his activism. For the past century, scholars have been studying Paine in piecemeal fashion; studies of limited scope focused on the minutiae of Paine's life and career, but...
Actors and Activists: Performance, Politics, and Exchange Among Social Worlds
1st Edition
By David Schlossman
January 02, 2002
This scholarly work looks at the issue of politics and performance in America today with particular attention paid to performances produced by activists, the NEA Four, and "Miss Saigon"....
African American Nationalist Literature of the 1960s: Pens of Fire
1st Edition
By Sandra Hollin Flowers
March 01, 1996
Bringing together political theory and literary works, this study recreates the political climate which made the 1960s an unforgettable era for young black Americans. A chapter on The Many Shades of Black Nationalism, for instance, explains: why black nationalism is known by more than a dozen ...