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Madonna as Postmodern Myth
How One Star's Self-Construction Rewrites Sex, Gender, Hollywood and the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Madonna has long been accepted as a pop culture icon, but this text postulates a greater cultural importance by analyzing her as a postmodern myth. This work examines how Madonna methodically discovered and constructed herself (often rewriting her past), the nature and extent of her ambition and the...
by Nghia M. Vo
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
The biggest diaspora in Vietnamese history occurred between 1975 and 1992, when more than two million people fled by boat to escape North Vietnam’s oppressive communist regime. Before this well-known exodus from Vietnam’s shores, however, there was a massive population shift within the country....
Exiting Vietnam
The Era of Vietnamization and American Withdrawal Revealed in First-Person Accounts
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Although the Paris Peace Accords ended direct United States military involvement in Vietnam on January 27, 1973, the process of withdrawal lasted over three years. This illuminating volume chronicles this withdrawal, its background, and its impact through a combination of official history and first-person...
by John Heitmann
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Now revised and updated, this book tells the story of how the automobile transformed American life and how automotive design and technology have changed over time. It details cars’ inception as a mechanical curiosity and later a plaything for the wealthy; racing and the promotion of the industry;...
Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones
The American Medicine Show
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Long before television and radio commercials beckoned to potential buyers, the medicine show provided free entertainment and promised cures for everything from corns to cancer. Combining elements of the circus, theater, vaudeville, and good old-fashioned entrepreneurship, the showmen of the American...
Building Milwaukee City Hall
The Political, Legal and Construction Battles
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Milwaukee’s City Hall on East Wells and North Water streets is a landmark. Not only officially, but as part of Milwaukee’s identity, from the city’s flag to the Laverne and Shirley sit-com in the 1970s. The site for this familiar building was not easily chosen. The final location was not the...
The Vacuum Cleaner
A History
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
House cleaning has been an innate human activity forever but only since the early 19th century have mechanical devices replaced the physical labor (performed mostly by women). Mechanical carpet sweepers were replaced by manual suction cleaners, which in turn were replaced by electric vacuum cleaners...
The Lustron Home
The History of a Postwar Prefabricated Housing Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Advertised as “a new standard for living,” the Lustron Home was introduced in 1948 in response to the urgent need for housing for veterans returning from World War II and their rapidly growing families. These enameled steel, prefabricated houses became very popular, and were heavily promoted from...
North Carolina Civil War Monuments
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2013
Monuments honoring leaders and victorious armies have been raised throughout history. Following the American Civil War, however, this tradition expanded, and by the early twentieth century, the Confederate dead and surviving veterans, although defeated in battle, ranked among the world’s most commemorated...
by J. Blaine Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Fugitive slaves were reported in the American colonies as early as the 1640s, and escapes escalated with the growth of slavery over the next 200 years. As the number of fugitives rose, the Southern states pressed for harsher legislation to prevent escapes. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 criminalized...
by Chris Coelho
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read aloud to a crowd gathered outside the Pennsylvania State House. It was engrossed on vellum later in the month, and delegates began signing the finely penned document in early August. The man who read the Declaration and later embossed it—the...
The Loyalist Conscience
Principled Opposition to the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Freedom of speech was restricted during the Revolutionary War. In the great struggle for independence, those who remained loyal to the British crown were persecuted with loss of employment, eviction from their homes, heavy taxation, confiscation of property and imprisonment. Loyalist Americans from...
American Work-Sports
A History of Competitions for Cornhuskers, Lumberjacks, Firemen and Others
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
For more than a century the American farm, factory and frontier provided opportunities for physical workers to display their skill, win a bet, brag or perhaps just have some fun. Competitions that emphasized useful skills, like plowing, corn-husking, rock drilling, typesetting, and tree cutting, were...
by Paul Reeths
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
One of the most ambitious (and short-lived) endeavors in professional sports history, the United States Football League was founded in 1982. Premiering with a spring schedule and an abundance of talent that included top rookies and National Football League veterans, the USFL gained national attention...