How a pioneering manuscript librarian and intellectual uncovered buried records that reshaped America's past As the London-based agent of the US Library of Congress, Ruth Anna Fisher (1886-1975) profoundly shaped the field of US history. Working at the British Museum and Public Record Office between the world wars, she was responsible for ......
How a pioneering manuscript librarian and intellectual uncovered buried records that reshaped America's past As the London-based agent of the US Library of Congress, Ruth Anna Fisher (1886-1975) profoundly shaped the field of US history. Working at the British Museum and Public Record Office between the world wars, she was responsible for ......
Cold War Fatherhood and the Family Fallout Shelter
In Every Home a Fortress, Thomas Bishop details the remarkable cultural history and personal stories behind an iconic figure of Cold War masculinity -- the fallout shelter father, who, with spade in hand and the canned goods he has amassed, sought to save his family from atomic warfare. Putting policy documents and presidential addresses into ......
The Civil War and Transcendentalism in Transatlantic Context
Tracing the impact of transcendental philosophy on Union soldiers and their loved ones during the American Civil War Scholars of the American Civil War have long wondered about the seemingly earnest and sincere sentimental commitment that most Northern soldiers had to their nation and the North's cause. Unlike many others in other wars, Union ......
The Civil War and Transcendentalism in Transatlantic Context
Tracing the impact of transcendental philosophy on Union soldiers and their loved ones during the American Civil War Scholars of the American Civil War have long wondered about the seemingly earnest and sincere sentimental commitment that most Northern soldiers had to their nation and the North's cause. Unlike many others in other wars, Union ......
Following the pathways of imperial commerce, blackface minstrel troupes began to cross the globe in the mid-nineteenth century, popularizing American racial ideologies as they traveled from Britain to its colonies in the Pacific, Asia, and Oceania, finally landing in South Africa during the 1860s and 1870s. The first popular culture export of the ......
From a nurse who sees a rattlesnake in the pediatric ICU to an animal control officer convinced she's found her abducted daughter in the house of a dog hoarder, the thirteen stories in Freak Weather are as unpredictable as the atmospheric changes that give this collection its name. With dark and raucous humor, Mary Kuryla creates female characters ......
Indigenous-English Congregationalism in Woodland New England
Uncovering how and where Indigenous and settler communities found common ground using newly public church records Puritans in the American colonies created Congregationalism, a Protestant denomination where power rested in each congregation rather than a larger central body. As has often been told, the official Puritan mission included ......
Indigenous-English Congregationalism in Woodland New England
Uncovering how and where Indigenous and settler communities found common ground using newly public church records Puritans in the American colonies created Congregationalism, a Protestant denomination where power rested in each congregation rather than a larger central body. As has often been told, the official Puritan mission included ......
