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American Cultural History



link to catalog page PERPENER, African-American Concert Dance

African-American Concert Dance

The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond

Author: John O. Perpener III
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2005

Restores primary African-American dance pioneers to their proper place in the history of American Dance innovation   learn more...

link to catalog page RAPHAEL, Investigated Reporting

Investigated Reporting

Muckrakers, Regulators, and the Struggle over Television Documentary

Author: Chad Raphael
Pub Date: October 2005

Unearthing the close collaboration between government television's early muckrakers   learn more...

link to catalog page NATHAN, Saying It's So

Saying It's So

A Cultural History of the Black Sox Scandal

Author: Daniel A. Nathan
Pub Date: September 2005

How meaning was manufactured following the national pastime's darkest hour   learn more...

link to catalog page DALEY, Cultural Politics and the Mass Media Author: Patrick J. Daley and Beverly A. James
Pub Date: August 2004

Case studies in Alaskan Native political resistance using the media   learn more...

link to catalog page HUGHES, Myths America Lives By Author: Richard T. Hughes
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2004

Exploring the history of the myths that define American identity, the ways many Americans have absolutized those myths, and the ways African Americans and other dissenters have exposed those myths for their discriminatory dimensions   learn more...

link to catalog page GANZ, Pots of Promise

Pots of Promise

Mexicans and Pottery at Hull-House, 1920-40

Author: Edited by Cheryl R. Ganz and Margaret Strobel
Pub Date: May 2004

Presenting the Mexican artisans of Hull House and the history of its kilns and pottery   learn more...

link to catalog page SCHROEDER, Robert Johnson, Mythmaking, and Contemporary American Culture Author: Patricia R. Schroeder
Pub Date: July 2004

An examination of the culture of myth making by looking at the myths surrounding Robert Johnson and how they were used by various writers and artists   learn more...

link to catalog page FULLER, Morality and the Mail in Nineteenth-Century America Author: Wayne E. Fuller
Pub Date: April 2003

The story of the evangelical Protestants' fears of and struggles against the changes in American society engendered by the postal innovations that created a communication revolution in nineteenth century America.   learn more...

link to catalog page ADDAMS, The Selected Papers of Jane Addams

The Selected Papers of Jane Addams

vol. 1: Preparing to Lead, 1860-81

Author: Edited by Mary Lynn McCree Bryan, Barbara Bair, and Maree de Angury
Pub Date: December 2003

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link to catalog page HUME, American Dream, American Nightmare Author: Kathryn Hume
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2002

Kathryn Hume explores the landscape of American fiction since 1960 and the disenfranchisement she discovers there to extricate the thread of a literary movement that she calls “the Generation of the Lost Dream.”   learn more...

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