The iconic leader of one of America's most powerful unions, Harry Bridges put an indelible stamp on the twentieth century labor movement. Robert Cherny's monumental biography tells the life story of the figure who built the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) into a labor powerhouse that still represents almost 30,000 workers. An ......
How Trade Policy and Industrial Decline Transformed America
The decline of the U.S. textile and apparel industries between the 1940s and 1970s helped lay the groundwork for the twenty-first century's potent economic populism in America. James C. Benton looks at how shortsighted trade and economic policy by labor, business, and government undermined an employment sector that once employed millions and ......
Restores queer suffragists to their rightful place in the history of the struggle for women's right to vote The women's suffrage movement, much like many other civil rights movements, has an important and often unrecognized queer history. In Public Faces, Secret Lives Wendy L. Rouse reveals that, contrary to popular belief, the suffrage ......
The captivating story of how a diverse group of women, including Janet Reno and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, broke the glass ceiling and changed the modern legal profession In Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers, award-winning legal historian Jill Norgren curates the oral histories of one hundred extraordinary American women lawyers who changed ......
What makes a talented female tarot artist, writer, and storyteller, convert from mysticism to Catholicism, dying in penury in Cornwall? The mysterious Pamela Colman Smith worked with creatives like actress Ellen Terry, Bram Stoker, and W. B. Yeats. Why did she turn her back on London bohemian life to work on a challenging Cornish religious ......
No matter the war, no matter the nationality, common threads run through the experiences of men at war. Soldiers highlights these shared experiences across 150 years of warfare, from the Napoleonic Wars through World War II. Haymond explores these threads, drawing heavily from firsthand accounts to craft a narrative with flesh-and-blood immediacy.
The period 1939-1959 was a crucial one in the history of the East Coast Main Line stretching from London King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley. The book takes a snapshot of the line in the 1930s then pays meticulous attention to the impact of the Second World War and the creation of British Railways following nationalisation in 1948.
From Secret Luftwaffe to Hossbach War Conference 1935-37
Revealed is Goering's role in creating the Luftwaffe and the German prewar economy during 1935-37 that set the stage for the launching of WWII in 1939. Also revealed are his second marriage to a popular stage actress, occupation of the Rhineland, diplomatic missions to Poland and Italy, hunting career, and the top-secret Hossbach war conference.
