Jackie Hogan: 3 books
Lincoln, Inc.
Selling the Sixteenth President in Contemporary America
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
From Lincoln-themed cocktails and waffle-parlors to high-tech museums and steamy romance novels, the image of Abraham Lincoln so permeates the national imagination that we now find him in the unlikeliest of places. In Lincoln, Inc., Jackie Hogan examines the uses (and abuses) of the sixteenth president...
Roots Quest
Inside America's Genealogy Boom
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
America is in the midst of a genealogy boom. In the last thirty years the number of Americans who said they were “very interested” in family history jumped from 29% to 87%. Online genealogy sites like Ancestry.com went from being a small genealogical research website into a NASDAQ-listed corporation...
Gender, Race and National Identity
Nations of Flesh and Blood
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
All nations construct stories of national belonging, stories of the nation’s character, its accomplishments, its defining traits, its historical trajectory. These stories, or discourses of national identity, carry powerful messages about gender and race, messages that reflect, reproduce and occasionally...