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American Cultural History



link to catalog page KORITZ, Culture Makers

Culture Makers

Urban Performance and Literature in the 1920s

Author: Amy Koritz
Pub Date: December 2008

A wide-ranging study of the cultural, social, and technological developments of the 1920s and their effect on the performing arts and literature   learn more...

link to catalog page WOOLFORK, Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary Culture Author: Lisa Woolfork
Pub Date: December 2008

A unique study of slavery reenactments and performances in African American literature and culture   learn more...

link to catalog page WEBSTER, Eve's Daughter/Modern Woman

Eve's Daughter/Modern Woman

A Mural by Mary Cassatt

Author: Sally Webster
Pub Date: Cloth: 2004; Paper: 2008

The first in-depth study of Mary Cassatt's lost mural Modern Woman   learn more...

link to catalog page NIELAND, Feeling Modern

Feeling Modern

The Eccentricities of Public Life

Author: Justus Nieland
Pub Date: March 2008

A new look at modernism's relationship to human feeling and the public sphere   learn more...

link to catalog page DOLBY, Self-Help Books

Self-Help Books

Why Americans Keep Reading Them

Author: Sandra K. Dolby
Pub Date: Cloth: 2005; Paper: 2008

Understanding instead of lamenting the popularity of self-help books   learn more...

link to catalog page MCNALLY, When Frankie Went to Hollywood

When Frankie Went to Hollywood

Frank Sinatra and American Male Identity

Author: Karen McNally
Pub Date: April 2008

Illuminating the cinematic career of a male pop icon   learn more...

link to catalog page JULES-ROSETTE, Josephine Baker in Art and Life

Josephine Baker in Art and Life

The Icon and the Image

Author: Bennetta Jules-Rosette
Pub Date: 2007

Beyond biography: a legendary performer’s legacy of imagery and symbolism   learn more...

link to catalog page SUAREZ, Pop Modernism

Pop Modernism

Noise and the Reinvention of the Everyday

Author: Juan A. Suárez
Pub Date: March 2007

Understanding the artistic bounty of modernist tensions over everyday life.   learn more...

link to catalog page HAMILL, Going Indian Author: James Hamill
Pub Date: April 2006

Learning from the Oklahoma Indians' own stories about the forces shaping their ethnic identity   learn more...

link to catalog page RAEBURN, A Staggering Revolution

A Staggering Revolution

A Cultural History of Thirties Photography

Author: John Raeburn
Pub Date: April 2006

A comprehensive cultural and artistic history of photography in its most dynamic decade   learn more...

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