Matthew Basso: 3 books
Men at Work
Rediscovering Depression-era Stories from the Federal Writers’ Project
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
As part of Roosevelt’s New Deal program of the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) provided relief jobs to millions of Americans. One facet of the WPA was the hiring of men and women to document the history and folklore of America so as to capture the “soul” of the nation. While researching...
Across the Great Divide
Cultures of Manhood in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
In Across the Great Divide, some of our leading historians look to both the history of masculinity in the West and to the ways that this experience has been represented in movies, popular music, dimestore novels, and folklore.
Meet Joe Copper
Masculinity and Race on Montana's World War II Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
“I realize that I am a soldier of production whose duties are as important in this war as those of the man behind the gun.” So began the pledge that many home front men took at the outset of World War II when they went to work in the factories, fields, and mines while their compatriots fought...