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Naked: A Cultural History of American NudismIn 1929, a small group of men and women threw off their clothes and began to exercise in a New York City gymnasium, marking the start of the American nudist movement. While countless Americans had long enjoyed the pleasures of skinny dipping or nude...
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Hollywood's War with Poland, 1939-1945Biskupski examines the political climate that influenced Hollywood films.Author: M. B. B. BiskupskiPublisher: University Press of KentuckyPublished: 10/01/2009Pages: 290Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.30dISBN: 9780813125596Review Citation(s): Chronicle of Higher Education 02/12/2010 pg. 16Choice 08/01/2010About the AuthorM. B. B. Biskupski, Stanislaus A....
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Kingsport, Tennessee: A Planned American City"This first full-length biography of Kingsport challenges interpretations of regional history that promote the colonial and poverty models. It will interest scholars of urbanization, city planning, and industrialization as well as local history enthusiasts."Author: Margaret Ripley WolfePublisher: University Press of KentuckyPublished: 09/21/1994Pages: 288Binding Type:...
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Europe in the Era of Two World Wars: From Militarism and Genocide to Civil Society, 1900-1950How and why did Europe spawn dictatorships and violence in the first half of the twentieth century, and then, after 1945 in the west and after 1989 in the east, create successful civilian societies? In this book, Volker Berghahn explains the rise and fall...
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The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-Of-The-Century New York CityIn the summer of 1909, the gruesome murder of nineteen-year-old Elsie Sigel sent shock waves through New York City and the nation at large. The young woman's strangled corpse was discovered inside a trunk in the midtown Manhattan apartment of her reputed former Sunday...
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The Pulse of Modernism: Physiological Aesthetics in Fin-De-Siècle EuropeRobert Brain traces the origins of artistic modernism to specific technologies of perception developed in late-nineteenth-century laboratories. Brain argues that the thriving fin-de-si cle field of "physiological aesthetics," which sought physiological explanations for the capacity to appreciate beauty and art, changed the way poets,...
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Católicos: Resistance and Affirmation in Chicano Catholic HistoryChicano Catholicism--both as a popular religion and a foundation for community organizing--has, over the past century, inspired Chicano resistance to external forces of oppression and discrimination including from other non-Mexican Catholics and even the institutionalized church. Chicano Catholics have also used their faith to...
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William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the CenturyWilliam S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century is the definitive book on Burroughs' overarching cut-up project and its relevance to the American twentieth century. Burroughs's Nova Trilogy (The Soft Machine, Nova Express, and The Ticket That Exploded) remains the best-known of his textual cut-up...
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Massacre at Mountain Meadows: An American TragedyOn September 11, 1857, a band of Mormon militia, under a flag of truce, lured unarmed members of a party of emigrants from their fortified encampment and, with their Paiute allies, killed them. More than 120 men, women, and children perished in the slaughter....
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American PlacesIn American Places, more than two dozen of America's most gifted historians write about their encounters with historic places, bringing a personal viewpoint to bear on a wide variety of sites, ranging from Monticello to Fenway Park. Here James M. McPherson writes about the...
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Shelby American: The Renegades Who Built the Cars, Won the Races, and Lived the LegendShelby American didn't last long, but it was a flame that burned incandescently before being extinguished by corporate politics. In less than a decade, it created a legacy that will be revered as long as cars still roar around racetracks. Now, on the sixtieth...
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Gettysburg's Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at RichmondOn June 14, 1863, US Major General John Adams Dix received the following directive from General-in-Chief Henry Halleck: "All your available force should be concentrated to threaten Richmond, by seizing and destroying their railroad bridges over the South and North Anna Rivers, and do...
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Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement EraWinner, Best Multiauthor Nonfiction Book, International Latino Book Awards, 2019With contributions from a wide array of scholars and activists, including leading Chicana feminists from the period, this groundbreaking anthology is the first collection of scholarly essays and testimonios that focuses on Chicana organizing, activism,...
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Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas2022 Best Book Award, Oral History Association Hundreds of stories of activists at the front lines of the intersecting African American and Mexican American liberation struggle Not one but two civil rights movements flourished in mid-twentieth-century Texas, and they did so in intimate conversation...
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Years of Rage: White Supremacy in the United States from the Klan to the Alt-RightYears of Rage is a revealing--and frightening--history of the many and varied white supremacist groups that have operated in the United States from the rebirth of the Klan in 1915 through to the rise of the alt-right and the presidency of Donald J. Trump....
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Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age AmericaBuying and Selling Civil War Memory explores the ways in which Gilded Age manufacturers, advertisers, publishers, and others commercialized Civil War memory. Advertisers used images of the war to sell everything from cigarettes to sewing machines; an entire industry grew up around uniforms made...
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Dangerous Ground: Squatters, Statesmen, and the Antebellum Rupture of American DemocracyThe squatter--defined by Noah Webster as one that settles on new land without a title--had long been a fixture of America's frontier past. In the antebellum period, white squatters propelled the Jacksonian Democratic Party to dominance and the United States to the shores of...
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Free Negro Heads of Families in the United States in 1830By: Carter G. Woodson, Phd., Pub. 1925, Reprinted 2021, 354 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-668-1.This book will make a great addition to any ones collection of research books especially when it concerns Afro-American Genealogy. This book contains the names of the Head of...
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Energy Crises: Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Hard Choices in the 1970s Volume 5The 1970s were a decade of historic American energy crises--major interruptions in oil supplies from the Middle East, the country's most dangerous nuclear accident, and chronic shortages of natural gas. In Energy Crises, Jay Hakes brings his expertise in energy and presidential history to...
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Seduced by Radium: How Industry Transformed Science in the American MarketplaceThe discovery of radium by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898 eventually led to a craze for radium products in the 1920s until their widespread use proved lethal for consumers, patients, and medical practitioners alike. Radium infiltrated American culture, Maria Rentetzi reveals, not only...
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