Captioned line drawings and background descriptions provide insight into the clothing worn by seafarers, farmers, frontiersmen, public servants, and others of the working class between 1710 and 1810
The social purity movement, a national movement in the 20th century, redirected efforts against neo-regulation, a modified state regulated prostitution. New York based neo-abolitionists merged with th
Examines the historical establishment and significance of the gun as a part of American life, proceeding from the role of firearms in the settlement of the New World to gun-control movements of the 19
McClure (history and international studies, Lees-McRae College, North Carolina) offers the first full-length account of Rublee (1868-1957), who made a series of significant contributions to political
During the American Civil War, political ideology was the most important determinant of French journalistic attitudes. Conservatives usually supported the South while Liberals usually supported the No
While much has been written about the antebellum African American interest in emigration to Africa, the equally significant interest in Haitian emigration has been largely overlooked. Although free bl
Although Calvin Coolidge is widely judged to have been a weak and even an incompetent president, this study concludes that he was a leader disabled by a crippling emotional breakdown. After an impress
The status of the veteran and the nature of the American political system are illuminated as an historian uncovers the myths surrounding the 1932 march on Washington
Historians have labeled John Buchanan Floyd a traitor and a coward for his actions during the Civil War, and this view has persisted largely unchallenged. This study reopens the case of this reform-mi
Although many specialized studies have dealt with the colonial and antebellum American South, very little attention has been paid to the Southern agricultural frontiers before 1860. This study focuses
Contributors sort out some of the differences between memory and history as applied to American society during WWII, looking at the issues framed by the memory of national unity and the evidence of di
