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History, Am.: 20th C.



link to catalog page GANZ, The 1933 Chicago World's Fair

The 1933 Chicago World's Fair

A Century of Progress

Author: Cheryl R. Ganz
Pub Date: Cloth: 2008; Paper: February 2012

From fan dancers to fan belts--the compelling, untold stories of Chicago's 1933 world fair   learn more...

link to catalog page STOLE, Advertising at War

Advertising at War

Business, Consumers, and Government in the 1940s

Author: Inger L. Stole
Pub Date: November 2012

The advertising industry's rise to power, in war and peace   learn more...

link to catalog page HINE, The Black Chicago Renaissance Author: Edited by Darlene Clark Hine and John McCluskey Jr.
Pub Date: July 2012

Presenting early twentieth-century Chicago as a vital centerpiece of Black thought and expression   learn more...

link to catalog page GALLAGHER, Black Women and Politics in New York City Author: Julie A. Gallagher
Pub Date: June 2012

Black women as liberal reformers, from suffrage to civil rights   learn more...

link to catalog page FIGONE, Cheating the Spread

Cheating the Spread

Gamblers, Point Shavers, and Game Fixers in College Football and Basketball

Author: Albert J. Figone
Pub Date: December 2012

College sports' ignominious history of game fixing   learn more...

link to catalog page HUGHES, Christian America and the Kingdom of God Author: Richard T. Hughes
Pub Date: Cloth: 2009; Paper: August 2012

A provocative indictment of the fundamentalist myth of Christian America   learn more...

link to catalog page CASTLEDINE, Cold War Progressives

Cold War Progressives

Women's Interracial Organizing for Peace and Freedom

Author: Jacqueline Castledine
Pub Date: December 2012

Reconfiguring women's activism in the Cold War era   learn more...

link to catalog page BLEVINS, Ghost of the Ozarks

Ghost of the Ozarks

Murder and Memory in the Upland South

Author: Brooks Blevins
Pub Date: March 2012

A grisly killing and a walking dead man in the Arkansas hills   learn more...

link to catalog page THOMAS, Globetrotting

Globetrotting

African American Athletes and Cold War Politics

Author: Damion L. Thomas
Pub Date: October 2012

Deploying African American sports stars in the Cold War   learn more...

link to catalog page HOLSAERT, Hands on the Freedom Plow

Hands on the Freedom Plow

Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC

Author: Edited by Faith S. Holsaert, Martha Prescod Norman Noonan, Judy Richardson, Betty Garman Robinson, Jean Smith Young, and Dorothy M. Zellner
Pub Date: Cloth: 2010; Paper: August 2012

An unprecedented women's history of the Civil Rights Movement, from sit-ins to Black Power   learn more...

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