In 1956, when La Leche League was founded, if a new mother chose to breastfeed rather than bottlefeed her child, she could by no means expect universal ...

These reflective, philosophical letters between British prime minister Winston Churchill and U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower, published here for the ...

Is a woman's writing different from a man's? Many scholars -- and readers -- think so, even thought here has been little examination of the way women's ...

Presenting an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to colonial America's best-known literary genre, Andrew Newman analyzes depictions of reading, writing ...

This book begins where the reach of archaeology and history ends," writes Charles Hudson. Grounded in careful research, his extraordinary work imaginatively ...

This study of class during the Great Depression is the first to examine a relatively neglected geographical area, the northern plains states of North and ...

During the 1920s a new generation of American sociologists tried to make their discipline more objective by adopting the methodology of the natural sciences. ...

In this richly interdisciplinary work twenty-eight of the nation's leading critics and scholars offer a comprehensive exploration of American society and ...

Established in 1824, the United States Indian Service (USIS), now known as the Bureau of Indian Affairs, was the agency responsible for carrying out U. ...

This book combines literary and historical analysis in a study of sexuality in Walt Whitman's work. Informed by his "new historicist" understanding of ...