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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.
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 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 ......
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 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 ......
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 ......
Formerly a slave, but more recently modiste, and friend to Mrs. Lincoln; or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
A slave, friend and confidante to Mary Todd Lincoln, and a proprietor with more than twenty employees of her own tells her tale.Born into slavery, Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (ca. 1824-1907) rose to a position of respect as a talented dressmaker and designer to the political elite of Washington, D.C., and a confidante of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln. ......
Once seen as a harbinger of a new enlightened capitalism, Google has become a model of robber baron rapaciousness thanks to its ruthless monetizing of private data, obsession with monopoly, and pervasive systems of labor discrimination and exploitation. Using the company as a jumping-off point, ShinJoung Yeo explores the political economy of the ......
