Female machinist, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, California, 1942. Photo by Alfred T. Palmer A couple of important book reviews for you to read on feminist texts, both of which.
Above: The New Deal experimental town of Greendale, Wisconsin Steven Conn's smart, witty, and even funny book is an excellent overview of how a deep mistrust of cities and strong.
Depleted bauxite mine, Gánt, Hungary Mimi Sheller's history of aluminum is one of the best books I read in 2015. Sheller splits her book into two parts. The first looks.
In the latter part of her career, the pioneering oral historian Alice Fry started a definitive biography of Paul's life up to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. When she.
In the stories we tell about music and the South during the 1960s and 1970s, a common theme is that music was the place where race didn't count, where white.
Vincent O'Hara's Torch recounts the preparation for and conduct of the Allied Torch landings of November 1942. O'Hara allows that some of the political and strategic criticisms of Operation Torch.
Angela Pulley Hudson's fascinating and very readable new book details a remarkable story of an ex-slave from Mississippi and a Mormon convert who met during the tumultuous early years of.
In Race Horse Men, Katherine Mooney examines the long history of race from the 1820s to the 1910s through the prism of the racetrack. She effectively argues that this is.
