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History, Am.: 20th C.



link to catalog page TRIECE, On the Picket Line

On the Picket Line

Strategies of Working-Class Women during the Depression

Author: Mary E. Triece
Pub Date: February 2007

Working-class women’s creative challenges to oppressive gender norms and workplace discrimination.   learn more...

link to catalog page SMITH, Peanuts

Peanuts

The Illustrious History of the Goober Pea

Author: Andrew F. Smith
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2007

The peanut’s rise from a lowly bean to national favorite   learn more...

link to catalog page DODSON, The Poet and the Sailor

The Poet and the Sailor

The Story of My Friendship with Carl Sandburg

Author: Kenneth Dodson
Pub Date: July 2007

Two friends, a lifetime of letters, and an intimate look at a literary icon   learn more...

link to catalog page KERSTEN, Race, Jobs, and the War

Race, Jobs, and the War

The FEPC in the Midwest, 1941-46

Author: Andrew E. Kersten
Pub Date: May 2007

A richly detailed look at the crucial role of federally supported civil rights activism   learn more...

link to catalog page SCHULTZ, The Rural Face of White Supremacy Author: Mark Schultz
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2007

The surprising realities of rural race relations during the Jim Crow era   learn more...

link to catalog page GOMPERS, The Samuel Gompers Papers, Volume 10

The Samuel Gompers Papers, Volume 10

The American Federation of Labor and the Great War, 1917-18

Author: Samuel Gompers
Pub Date: July 2007

Important shifts in labor history before, during, and after wartime   learn more...

link to catalog page SANGER, The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger

The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger

Volume 1: The Woman Rebel, 1900-1928

Author: Edited by Esther Katz
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2007

Capturing the strident activist’s complexity during a formative period   learn more...

link to catalog page VAN VECHTEN, The Splendid Drunken Twenties

The Splendid Drunken Twenties

Selections from the Daybooks, 1922-1930

Author: Carl Van Vechten
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2007

A startling record of the Jazz Age through the eyes of one of its memorable figures   learn more...

link to catalog page WILSON, The Women's Joint Congressional Committee and the Politics of Maternalism, 1920-30 Author: Jan Doolittle Wilson
Pub Date: June 2007

The rise and fall of a feminist reform powerhouse   learn more...

link to catalog page LIPIN, Workers and the Wild

Workers and the Wild

Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910-30

Author: Lawrence M. Lipin
Pub Date: March 2007

Exploring the tight ties between wilderness use and class.   learn more...

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