From Gentleman Bandit to Movie Star and Back Again
In 1921 headlines across the country announced the death of Henry Starr, a burgeoning silent film star who was killed while attempting to rob a bank in Harrison, Arkansas. Cynics who knew the real Starr were not surprised. Before becoming a matinee idol, Starr had been the greatest bank robber of the horseback bandit era. Born in 1873, Cherokee ......
Continuing Education at Purdue University, 1975-2019 traces the history of Continuing Education at Purdue over four decades under eight deans and directors. It describes Purdue's outreach to nontraditional learners across Indiana through off-campus classes. The volume tracks the evolution of distance learning as an efficient way to provide ......
It's been thirty years since Andre "3000" Benjamin declared "the South got something to say," and for the decades since this pivotal moment the region has spoken. In this issue, we contextualize Benjamin's interruption and expand southern hip-hop's historiographical and sociocultural landscapes. To cover the significance of southern hip-hop as ......
The racist roots of modern policing in Baltimore By the early twentieth century, postbellum assaults on civil rights and the advent of Jim Crow expanded Baltimore's law enforcement into a vast network designed to oppress Black people. Michael Casiano's history charts the institutional consolidation of the city's post-Civil War police state. ......
The racist roots of modern policing in Baltimore By the early twentieth century, postbellum assaults on civil rights and the advent of Jim Crow expanded Baltimore's law enforcement into a vast network designed to oppress Black people. Michael Casiano's history charts the institutional consolidation of the city's post-Civil War police state. ......
Chicago's Amateur Pool Players and the Quest for Glory in the Biggest Tournament in the World
Playing every angle for a shot at the big time Chicagoans venture to area pool halls to perfect their games and navigate league play for a shot at the APA World Pool Championships in Las Vegas. Dylan Taylor-Lehman joins a lively cast of characters under the lights and inside a subculture as old as Chicago itself. Whether running the table or ......
The story of settlers in the American West, with its tales of cowboys, prospectors, and frontiersmen, is often overwhelmingly white. Black Wests brings to light the pivotal and largely overlooked contributions of Black Americans to the western narrative. Tracing Black Western storytelling through a range of media across the nineteenth and ......
Surviving Modern Times in Early Twentieth-Century Vermont
There is a stubborn myth that has persisted for almost two centuries: the narrative of the abandoned farm in the rural American northeast. In?Hill Farms, historian Dona Brown confronts this myth of rural decline with a focus on Jamaica, Vermont, a small town in the hills west of Brattleboro. Through this town's history, she reveals a more complex ......
Surviving Modern Times in Early Twentieth-Century Vermont
There is a stubborn myth that has persisted for almost two centuries: the narrative of the abandoned farm in the rural American northeast. In?Hill Farms, historian Dona Brown confronts this myth of rural decline with a focus on Jamaica, Vermont, a small town in the hills west of Brattleboro. Through this town's history, she reveals a more complex ......
