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Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood
Before Liz Smith and Perez Hilton became household names in the world of celebrity gossip, before Rush Limbaugh became the voice of conservatism, there was Hedda Hopper. In 1938, …
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Now?
The first comparative analysis of minority conservatism In Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Now? Angela Dillard offers the first comparative analysis of a conservatism which today cuts …
Children's Nature
For over a century, summer camps have provided many American children's first experience of community beyond their immediate family and neighborhoods. Each summer, children …
Doing Time in the Depression
As banks crashed, belts tightened, and cupboards emptied across the country, American prisons grew fat. Doing Time in the Depression tells the story of the 1930s as seen from the …
Black and Brown
Winner of a 2005 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (Honorable Mention) Horne brings to light the lives of black Americans living along the Mexican border during and immediately …
A Feeling of Belonging
When we imagine the activities of Asian American women in the mid-twentieth century, our first thoughts are not of skiing, beauty pageants, magazine reading, and sororities. Yet, …
Impossible to Hold
With Jackie in a pill-box hat and Marilyn crooning to the president, the 1960s opened with women hovering at the fringes of the public imagination—and ended with a feminist …
Impossible to Hold
With Jackie in a pill-box hat and Marilyn crooning to the president, the 1960s opened with women hovering at the fringes of the public imagination—and ended with a feminist …
Provincetown
The fascinating history of the coastal town—from fishing village to gay mecca How did a sleepy New England fishing village become a gay mecca? In this dynamic history, Karen …
America’s Forgotten Holiday
Though now a largely forgotten holiday in the United States, May Day was founded here in 1886 by an energized labor movement as a part of its struggle for the eight-hour day. In …
Raising Freedom's Child
The end of slavery in the United States inspired conflicting visions of the future for all Americans in the nineteenth century, black and white, slave and free. The black child …