Home economics emerged at the turn of the twentieth century as a movement to train women to be more efficient household managers. At the same moment, American ...

The authors identify the general symbol of the "Mother Goddess" as a common sanctified image, and they demonstrate some of the cultural variations in form ...

Between 1845 and 1855, 2 million Irish men and women fled their famine-ravaged homeland, many to settle in large British and American cities that were ...

Moving beyond traditional state-centered conceptions of foreign relations, Christopher Endy approaches the Cold War era relationship between France and ...

A number of arguments have been made to explain the relative weakness of the American Left. A preference for individualism, the effects of prosperity, ...

Using a life-course perspective, this study spans the social history of American women from preindustrial times to the present, with emphasis on the last ...

There is no denying that race is a critical issue in understanding the South. However, this concluding volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture ...

During the 1930s, radical young writers, artists, and critics associated with the Communist Party animated a cultural dialogue that was one of the most ...

In this wide-ranging and carefully curated anthology, Daniel M. Cobb presents the words of Indigenous people who have shaped Native American rights movements ...

Tracing the development of public policy in America, Wallenstein focuses on the southern variant of the national pattern and demonstrates the impact of ...