Following the 2013 revelations of Edward Snowden, Americans have come to realize that many of us may be under surveillance at any time. It all started ...

On a summer day in 1898, a family in Dover, Delaware, shared a box of chocolates they received in the mail from an anonymous sender. Within days, two ...

The transition from stage to screen was not only a shift in popular entertainment, but a challenge for those working in the industry as well. This ...

The relationship of Hollywood and television, initially turbulent, has ultimately been profitable from the first sally in what was expected to be a ...

During the last 20 years of the 19th century, cigarette smoking was transformed from a lower-class habit to a favored form of tobacco use for men and ...

The suntan experienced a profound change in the last century. Considered a mark of the lower class for hundreds of years, tanning became a fad in the ...

Film piracy began almost immediately after the birth of the film industry. Initially it was a within-the-industry phenomenon as studios stole from ...

This book examines the history of sexual harassment in America's public places, such as on the streets and on public transit vehicles, in the period ...

Pity the "extras." Mostly overlooked and forgotten. Especially those in the major Hollywood films 1913 to 1945--right through the dream factory's golden ...

The poverty that drives people to begging has been a pressing social issue in the United States since the beginning. This historical work explores ...