Drinking, Smoking, Taking Drugs, Gambling, Sexual Misbehavior and Swearing in American History
Tracing the evolution of each of the bad habits, this title shows how liquor control boards encouraged the consumption of alcohol; how alcoholic beverage producers got their workers deferred from the draft during World War II; and how convenience stores and accounting firms pursued profits by pushing legalized gambling.
The Ku Klux Klan reached its height in the 1920s, and nowhere was it as large and politically powerful as in Indiana, where about 30 percent of the native-born white male population were Klansmen. This book explores the career of D. C. Stephenson, grand dragon of the Indiana Klan, his rise to power, and his eventual conviction for second-degree ......
The story of 19th-century Winston-Salem, a community of artisans and small farmers, united, as members of a religious congregation, by a single vision of life. Its transformation into an industrial centre within a few decades, illustrates the changes that swept through America's Southern society.
Traces the political and social saga of America as it passed through the momentous transformation of the Industrial Revolution and the settlement of the West. This title includes chapters that are focusing on immigration, labor, the great cities, and the American Renaissance.
KinaaldA, the ceremony associated with the onset of a girl's puberty, is an important Navajo rite within the Blessingway complex. Derived from the experiences of Changing Woman, the puberty ceremony has been passed through generations and continues to be observed throughout Navajoland. An acknowledged classic, KinaaldA remains the most complete ......
Many Americans have long since forgotten that there ever was slavery along the Hudson River. Yet Sojourner Truth was born a slave near the Hudson River in Ulster County, New York, in the late 1700s. Called merely Isabella as a slave, once freed she adopted the name of Sojourner Truth and became a national figure in the struggle for the ......
Presents a detailed description of the everyday life of early Dutch settlers in New York and New Jersey. Cohen gives special attention to the rise of the Dutch Reformed Church in these areas - particularly to the denomination's transformation into an American culture.
Critical Studies in Modern Jewish History and Thought
A critical exploration of significant topics in modern Jewish history and thought. The author attempts to identify the main issues in the contemporary Jewish intellectual universe and to outline a larger, more synthetic understanding of contemporary Jewish existence.
An overview of the history of social welfare and juvenile justice in Boston. This book traces the origins, development and ultimate failure of Protestant and Catholic reformers' efforts to ameliorate working-class poverty and juvenile delinquency.
