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The U.S. Chemical Warfare Service in War and Peace
In Behind the Gas Mask, Thomas Faith offers an institutional history of the Chemical Warfare Service, the department tasked with improving the Army's ability to use and defend against chemical weapons during and after World War One. Taking the CWS's story from the trenches to peacetime, he explores how the CWS's work on chemical warfare continued ......
Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture
The songs, dances, jokes, parodies, spoofs, and skits of blackface groups such as the Virginia Minstrels and Buckley's Serenaders became wildly popular in antebellum America. Behind the Burnt Cork Mask not only explores the racist practices of these entertainers but considers their performances as troubled representations of ethnicity, class, ......
The indomitable Cubs of baseball's early yearsAll Cub fans know from heartbreak and curse-toting goats. Fewer know that, prior to moving to the north side in 1916, the team fielded powerhouse nines that regularly claimed the pennant. Before the Ivy offers a grandstand seat to a golden age:
BEHOLD the 1871 team as it plays for the title in nine ......
The early days and glory days of the Chicago CubsBefore the Curse: The Chicago Cubs' Glory Years, 18701945 brings to life the early history of this much beloved and often heartbreaking baseball club. Originally called the Chicago White Stockings, the team immediately established itself as a powerhouse, winning the newly formed National League's ......
The dramatic story of the clashes that shook college basketball at mid-century—and how the repercussions continue to influence college sports to the present day. Readers learn an innovative history of an overlooked era, looking at how promises, power, and money laid the groundwork for an American sports institution.
The dramatic story of the clashes that shook college basketball at mid-century—and how the repercussions continue to influence college sports to the present day. Readers learn an innovative history of an overlooked era, looking at how promises, power, and money laid the groundwork for an American sports institution.
Among Beethoven's many surviving sketchbooks, one of the most famous is the ''Eroica'' Sketchbook, containing all the known sketches for the ''Eroica'' Symphony, the ''Waldstein'' Sonata, and other works of 180304. These include his first sketches for the opera Leonore (later entitled Fidelio), as well as the unfinished opera Vestas Feuer, the ......
The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880-1914
Understanding an infamous political movement's grounding in festivity and defianceBeer and Revolution examines the rollicking life and times of German immigrant anarchists in New York City from 1880 to 1914. Offering a new approach to an often misunderstood political movement, Tom Goyens reveals a dedication less to bombs than to beer halls and ......
The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880-1914
Beer and Revolution examines the rollicking life and times of German immigrant anarchists in New York City from 1880 to 1914. Offering a new approach to an often misunderstood political movement, Tom Goyens reveals a dedication less to bombs than to beer halls and saloons where political meetings, public lectures, discussion circles, fundraising ......
