Studies in American Popular History and Culture
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 ...