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Promoting the War Effort: Robert Horton and Federal Propaganda, 1938-1946Though historians have largely overlooked Robert Horton, his public relations campaigns remain fixed in popular memory of the home front during World War II. Utilizing all media -- including the nascent technology of television -- to rally civilian support, Horton's work ranged from educational...
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The Holiday Makers: Magazines, Advertising, and Mass Tourism in Postwar AmericaIn mid-twentieth-century America, mass tourism became emblematic of the expanding horizons associated with an affluent, industrial society. Nowhere was the image of leisurely travel more visible than in the parade of glossy articles and advertisements that beckoned readers from the pages of popular magazines....
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The Trial of Tom HornFor weeks in 1902 it commanded headlines. All of Wyoming and much of the West followed the trial of Tom Horn for the murder of a fourteen-year-old boy. John W. Davis's book, the only full-length account of the trial, places it in perspective as...
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Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to AfricaA decade before the American Civil War, James Churchwill Vaughan (1828-1893) set out to fulfill his formerly enslaved father's dying wish that he should leave America to start a new life in Africa. Over the next forty years, Vaughan was taken captive, fought in...
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Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan during ReconstructionThe first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century Ku Klux Klan since the 1970s, Ku-Klux pinpoints the group's rise with startling acuity. Historians have traced the origins of the Klan to Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866, but the details behind the group's emergence have long remained...
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A Clubbable Man: Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in Honor of Greg ClinghamSamuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as "a most unclubbable man." Conversely, this celebratory volume gathers distinguished eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements, professional generosity, and sociability of Greg Clingham, taking as its theme textual...
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The Land Was Ours: How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal SouthThe coasts of today's American South feature luxury condominiums, resorts, and gated communities, yet just a century ago, a surprising amount of beachfront property in the Chesapeake, along the Carolina shores, and around the Gulf of Mexico was owned and populated by African Americans....
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Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the Age of Global ImperialismThe "Middle East" has long been an indispensable and ubiquitous term in discussing world affairs, yet its history remains curiously underexplored. Few question the origin of the term or the boundaries of the region, commonly understood to have emerged in the twentieth century after...
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Censoring Racial Ridicule: Irish, Jewish, and African American Struggles over Race and Representation, 1890-1930A drunken Irish maid slips and falls. A greedy Jewish pawnbroker lures his female employee into prostitution. An African American man leers at a white woman. These and other, similar images appeared widely on stages and screens across America during the early twentieth century....
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Selling Britishness: Commodity Culture, the Dominions, and EmpireFrom the 1920s until the outbreak of the Second World War, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand filled British shop windows, newspaper columns, and cinema screens with "British to the core" Canadian apples, "British to the backbone" New Zealand lamb, and "All British" Australian butter....
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How to Do Things with Forms: The Oulipo and Its InventionsThe Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle, or Workshop for Potential Literature) is a literary think tank that brings together writers and mathematicians. Since 1960, its worldwide influence has refreshed ways of making and thinking about literature. How to Do Things with Forms assesses the...
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Remaking Radicalism: A Grassroots Documentary Reader of the United States, 1973-2001This book brings together documents from multiple radical movements in the recent United States from 1973 through 2001. These years are typically viewed as an era of neoliberalism, dominated by conservative retrenchment, the intensified programs of privatization and incarceration, dramatic cuts to social welfare,...
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You Can't Eat Freedom: Southerners and Social Justice after the Civil Rights MovementTwo revolutions roiled the rural South after the mid-1960s: the political revolution wrought by the passage of civil rights legislation, and the ongoing economic revolution brought about by increasing agricultural mechanization. Political empowerment for black southerners coincided with the transformation of southern agriculture and...
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Chinese Americans in the Heartland: Migration, Work, and CommunityThe term "Heartland" in American cultural context conventionally tends to provoke imageries of corn-fields, flat landscape, hog farms, and rural communities, along with ideas of conservatism, homogeneity, and isolation. But as the Midwestern and Southern states experienced more rapid population growth than that in...
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Long Past Slavery: Representing Race in the Federal Writers' ProjectFrom 1936 to 1939, the New Deal's Federal Writers' Project collected life stories from more than 2,300 former African American slaves. These narratives are now widely used as a source to understand the lived experience of those who made the transition from slavery to...
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Justice in Lyon: Klaus Barbie and France's First Trial for Crimes against HumanityThe trial of former SS lieutenant and Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie was France's first trial for crimes against humanity. Known as the Butcher of Lyon during the Nazi occupation of that city from 1942 to 1944, Barbie tortured, deported, and murdered thousands of Jews...
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Omnicompetent Modernists: Poetry, Politics, and the Public SphereAn innovative exploration of early twentieth-century avant-garde poetry's relationship to the public sphere "It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there," as the poet William Carlos...
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Hungary's Cold War: International Relations from the End of World War II to the Fall of the Soviet UnionIn this magisterial and pathbreaking work, Csaba Bekes shares decades of his research to provide a sweeping examination of Hungary's international relations with both the Soviet Bloc and the West from the end of World War II to the dissolution of the Soviet Union...
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Closing the Golden Door: Asian Migration and the Hidden History of Exclusion at Ellis IslandThe immigration station at New York's Ellis Island opened in 1892 and remained the largest U.S. port for immigrant entry until World War I. In popular memory, Ellis Island is typically seen as a gateway for Europeans seeking to join the "great American melting...
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Searching for the Republic of the Rio Grande: Northern Mexico and Texas, 1838-1840In 1838, a rebellion began in northern Mexico. A loose collective sought to establish a "Republic of the Rio Grande" the rebellion lasted two years, failed, and was then forgotten by history. This regional effort to establish an independent republic achieved some fleeting victories,...
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