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Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail
A History in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2006
The image of the West looms large in the American imagination. Yet the history of American Jewry and particularly of American Jewish women—has been heavily weighted toward the East. Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail rectifies this omission as the first full book to trace the history and...
Authentic New Orleans
Tourism, Culture, and Race in the Big Easy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Honorable Mention for the 2008 Robert Park Outstanding Book Award given by the ASA’s Community and Urban Sociology Section
Mardi Gras, jazz, voodoo, gumbo, Bourbon Street, the French Quarter—all evoke that place that is unlike any other: New Orleans. In Authentic New Orleans, Kevin Fox Gotham...
Raising Freedom's Child
Black Children and Visions of the Future after Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
The end of slavery in the United States inspired conflicting visions of the future for all Americans in the nineteenth century, black and white, slave and free. The black child became a figure upon which people projected their hopes and fears about slavery’s abolition. As a member of the first generation...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
In the early years of the Republic, as Americans tried to determine what it meant to be an American, they also wondered what it meant to be an American child. A defensive, even fearful, approach to childhood gave way to a more optimistic campaign to integrate young Americans into the Republican experiment.
In...
Just the Facts
How "Objectivity" Came to Define American Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
If American journalism were a religion, as it has been called, then its supreme deity would be "objectivity." The high priests of the profession worship the concept, while the iconoclasts of advocacy journalism, new journalism, and cyberjournalism consider objectivity a golden calf. Meanwhile,...
Feminist Nightmares: Women At Odds
Feminism and the Problems of Sisterhood
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1994
Though all women are women, no woman is only a woman, wrote Elizabeth Spelman in The Inessential Woman. Gone are the days when feminism translated simply into the advocacy of equality for women. Women's interests are not always aligned; race, class, and sexuality complicate the equation. In recent...
A Biography of a Map in Motion
Augustine Herrman's Chesapeake
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Reveals the little known history of one of history’s most famous maps – and its maker
Tucked away in a near-forgotten collection, Virginia and Maryland as it is Planted and Inhabited is one of the most extraordinary maps of colonial British America. Created by a colonial merchant, planter,...
One Nation Underground
The Fallout Shelter in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
For the half-century duration of the Cold War, the fallout shelter was a curiously American preoccupation. Triggered in 1961 by a hawkish speech by John F. Kennedy, the fallout shelter controversy-"to dig or not to dig," as Business Week put it at the time-forced many Americans to grapple...
by Kenneth D. Rose
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1995
In 1933 Americans did something they had never done before: they voted to repeal an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Eighteenth Amendment, which for 13 years had prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages, was nullified by the passage of another amendment, the Twenty-First....
New Men
Manliness in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
In 1782, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur wrote, “What then, is the American, this new man? He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced.” In casting aside their European mores, these...
Contesting Intersex
The Dubious Diagnosis
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Watch Georgiann Davis in National Geographic's Gender Revolution documentary with Katie Couric
A personal, compelling perspective on how medical diagnoses can profoundly hurt, or help, the lived experiences of entire communities
Winner, 2017 Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, presented...
The Passionate Torah
Sex and Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
In this unique collection of essays, some of today's smartest Jewish thinkers explore a broad range of fundamental questions in an effort to balance ancient tradition and modern sexuality.In the last few decades a number of factors—post-modernism, feminism, queer liberation, and more—have...
Freedom to Differ
The Shaping of the Gay and Lesbian Struggle for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
Many of us have grown up with the language of civil rights, yet rarely consider how the construction of civil rights claims affects those who are trying to attain them. Diane Miller examines arguments lesbians and gay men make for civil rights, revealing the ways these arguments are both progressive--in...
Our Monica, Ourselves
The Clinton Affair and the National Interest
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
Alongside the O.J. Simpson trial, the affair between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky now stands as the seminal cultural event of the 90s. Alternatively transfixed and repelled by this sexual scandal, confusion still reigns over its meanings and implications. How are we to make sense of a tale that...