20Th Century category: 9982 books
Political Manhood
Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2008
In a 1907 lecture to Harvard undergraduates, Theodore Roosevelt warned against becoming "too fastidious, too sensitive to take part in the rough hurly-burly of the actual work of the world." Roosevelt asserted that colleges should never "turn out mollycoddles instead of vigorous men,"...
A Small World
Smart Houses and the Dream of the Perfect Day
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2008
Conceived in the 1960s, Walt Disney’s original plans for his Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT) outlined a utopian laboratory for domestic technology, where families would live, work, and play in an integrated environment. Like many of his contemporaries, Disney imagined homes...
"I Hear America Singing"
Folk Music and National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Folk music is more than an idealized reminder of a simper past. It reveals a great deal about present-day understandings of community and belonging. It celebrates the shared traditions that define a group or nation. In America, folk music--from African American spirituals to English ballads and protest...
Racial Indigestion
Eating Bodies in the 19th Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
The act of eating is both erotic and violent, as one wholly consumes the object being eaten. At the same time, eating performs a kind of vulnerability to the world, revealing a fundamental interdependence between the eater and that which exists outside her body. Racial Indigestion explores the links...
Passage to America
Celebrated European Visitors in Search of the American Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
America was a source of fascination to Europeans arriving there during the course of the nineteenth century. At first glance, the New World was very similar to the societies they left behind in their native countries, but in many aspects of politics, culture and society, the American experience was...
From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court
Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2004
Perhaps more than any other Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 decision declaring the segregation of public schools unconstitutional, highlighted both the possibilities and the limitations of American democracy. This collection of sixteen original essays by historians and...
The House I Live In
Race in the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
In The House I Live In, award-winning historian Robert J. Norrell offers a truly masterful chronicle of American race relations over the last one hundred and fifty years. This scrupulously fair and insightful narrative--the most ambitious and wide-ranging history of its kind--sheds new light on the...
The Black Child-Savers
Racial Democracy and Juvenile Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
During the Progressive Era, a rehabilitative agenda took hold of American juvenile justice, materializing as a citizen-and-state-building project and mirroring the unequal racial politics of American democracy itself. Alongside this liberal "manufactory of citizens,” a parallel structure was...
by Jason McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
This pioneering study sheds new light on racial dynamics in the urban Southwest at a critical juncture in the history of the region and the nation. It focuses upon the experiences of ethnoracial minorities, particularly African Americans and Mexican immigrants in Austin, Texas from the dawn of the...
Del Pueblo
A History of Houston's Hispanic Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Though relatively small in number until the latter decades of the nineteenth century, Houston'sHispanic population possesses a rich and varied history that has previously not been readily associated in the popular imagination with Houston. However, in 1989, the first edition of Thomas H. Kreneck’s Del...
The Purposes of Paradise
U.S. Tourism and Empire in Cuba and Hawai'i
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
For half a century, the United States has treated Cuba and Hawai'i as polar opposites: despised nation and beloved state. But for more than a century before the Cuban revolution and Hawaiian statehood of 1959, Cuba and Hawai'i figured as twin objects of U.S. imperial desire and as possessions whose...
Reviving Phoenicia
The Search for Identity in Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
'Reviving Phoenicia' follows the social, intellectual and political development of the Phoenician myth of origin in Lebanon from the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Asher Kaufman demonstrates the role played by the lay, liberal Syrian-Lebanese who resided in Beirut, Alexandria...
by Alton Gansky
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2016
Three time presidential candidate, reformer, publisher, former secretary of state, William Jennings Bryan looked forward to delivering the prosecution's summary in the trial of John T. Scopes. It was one of the reasons, perhaps the major reason, he served on the prosecution in the "Trial of the...
Governing the Hearth
Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
Presenting a new framework for understanding the complex but vital relationship between legal history and the family, Michael Grossberg analyzes the formation of legal policies on such issues as common law marriage, adoption, and rights for illegitimate children. He shows how legal changes diminished...