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Portrait of America
A Cultural History of the Federal Writers' Project
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
How well do we know our country? Whom do we include when we use the word "American"? These are not just contemporary issues but recurring questions Americans have asked themselves throughout their history--and questions that were addressed when, in 1935, the Roosevelt administration created...
Mania for Freedom
American Literatures of Enthusiasm from the Revolution to the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1841. While this statement may read like an innocuous truism today, the claim would have been controversial in the antebellum United States when enthusiasm was a hotly contested term associated with religious fanaticism...
From Prejudice to Persecution
A History of Austrian Anti-Semitism
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
According to Simon Wiesenthal, nearly half of the crimes associated with the Holocaust were committed by Austrians, who comprised just 8.5 percent of the population of Hitler's Greater German Reich. Bruce Pauley's book explains this phenomenon by providing a history of Austrian anti-Semitism and Jewish...
Historical Truth and Lies About the Past
Reflections on Dewey, Dreyfus, de Man, and Reagan
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Historians have long struggled with the questions of historical relativism, objectivity, and standards of proof and evidence. Intellectual historian Alan Spitzer focuses on the contradiction between theory and practice by presenting case studies of four politically charged debates about the past:...
Making Something Happen
American Political Poetry between the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Poetry makes nothing happen," wrote W. H. Auden in 1939, expressing a belief that came to dominate American literary institutions in the late 1940s--the idea that good poetry cannot, and should not, be politically engaged. By contrast, Michael Thurston here looks back to the 1920s and 1930s to...
Surrogate Suburbs
Black Upward Mobility and Neighborhood Change in Cleveland, 1900–1980
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
The story of white flight and the neglect of black urban neighborhoods has been well told by urban historians in recent decades. Yet much of this scholarship has downplayed black agency and tended to portray African Americans as victims of structural forces beyond their control. In this history of...
The Black Arts Movement
Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, the cultural wing of the Black Power Movement. In this comprehensive analysis, James Smethurst examines...
by Stephanie J. Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
In this book, Stephanie J. Shaw brings a new understanding to one of the great documents of American and black history. While most scholarly discussions of The Souls of Black Folk focus on the veils, the color line, double consciousness, or Booker T. Washington, Shaw reads Du Bois' book as a profoundly...
Soviet Soft Power in Poland
Culture and the Making of Stalin's New Empire, 1943-1957
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Concentrating on the formative years of the Cold War from 1943 to 1957, Patryk Babiracki reveals little-known Soviet efforts to build a postwar East European empire through culture. Babiracki argues that the Soviets involved in foreign cultural outreach tried to use "soft power" in order...
When I Was a Child
Children's Interpretations of First Communion
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
First Communion is generally understood as a rite of passage in which seven- and eight-year-old Catholic children transform from baptized participants in the Church to members of the body of Christ, the universal Catholic Church. This official Church account, however, ignores what the rite actually...
Common Threads
A Cultural History of Clothing in American Catholicism
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
A well-illustrated cultural history of the apparel worn by American Catholics, Sally Dwyer-McNulty's Common Threads reveals the transnational origins and homegrown significance of clothing in developing identity, unity, and a sense of respectability for a major religious group that had long struggled...
The Gymnasium of Virtue
Education and Culture in Ancient Sparta
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The Gymnasium of Virtue is the first book devoted exclusively to the study of education in ancient Sparta, covering the period from the sixth century B.C. to the fourth century A.D. Nigel Kennell refutes the popular notion that classical Spartan education was a conservative amalgam of "primitive"...
Christmas in Germany
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
For poets, priests, and politicians--and especially ordinary Germans--in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the image of the loving nuclear family gathered around the Christmas tree symbolized the unity of the nation at large. German Christmas was supposedly organic, a product of the winter solstice...
Twisted Cross
The German Christian Movement in the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
How did Germany's Christians respond to Nazism? In Twisted Cross, Doris Bergen addresses one important element of this response by focusing on the 600,000 self-described 'German Christians,' who sought to expunge all Jewish elements from the Christian church. In a process that became more daring as...