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Charles Horton Cooley
An intellectual biography of a preeminent American sociologist One of the founders of sociology in the United States, Charles Horton Cooley (1864-1929) is perhaps best known for …
Living with Agent Orange
For over half a century, the Vietnamese people have endured the harmful legacies of Agent Orange, the toxic herbicide used by the American military as a type of chemical warfare. …
Rewriting America
Established in 1935, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) sent around 6,500 unemployed historians, teachers, writers, and librarians out to document America's past and present in the …
Jim Crow Networks
Scholars have paid relatively little attention to the highbrow, middlebrow, and popular periodicals that African Americans read and discussed regularly during the Jim Crow era -- …
Conifers of the New England–Acadian Forest
Why did white pine help spark the American Revolution? How did balsam aid the development of germ theory? What does hemlock have to do with making leather? In Conifers of the New …
Wendell Wilkie
Making the Desert Modern
In 1933 American oilmen representing what later became the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco) signed a concession agreement with the Saudi Arabian king granting the company sole …
The Ivory Leg in the Ebony Cabinet
From Samuel Morton's collection of Native American skulls to William James's writings on the consciousnes of lost limbs, this book examines an array of artifacts that reflect …
Remember Little Rock
In Remember Little Rock Erin Krutko Devlin explores public memories surrounding the iconic Arkansas school desegregation crisis of 1957 and shows how these memories were vigorously …
Frederic Crowninshield
The task of decorating the interiors of the many new public and private structures created in Gilded Age America called for artists proficient in the skills of mural and stained …
Burial Places of Memory
There Is a North
How does political change take hold? In the 1850s, politicians and abolitionists despaired, complaining that the "North, the poor timid, mercenary, driveling North" offered no …