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Shows how black beauticians in the Jim Crow era parlayed their economic independence and access to a public community space into platforms for activism. This book argues that the beauty industry played a crucial role in the creation of the modern black female identity.

Provides a balanced assessment of how mainstream cinema portrays the American past.

As either observer or participant, radio deejay and political activist Richard E Stamz witnessed every significant period in the history of blues and jazz in the last century. This book presents the story of his life. It is also a window into milestones of African American history.

While historians have chronicled labour history in team sports such as baseball and football or have lumped track and field into larger studies of Olympic history, the author scrupulously details the efforts of athletes to reorder labour relations in track and field and to end their decades-long power struggle with governing bodies.

Presents an account of the life and times of Jean Aberbach, the elusive music publishing legend who, with his brother Julian, built one of music history's most powerful popular music publishing companies: Hill and Range Songs. This book weaves an adventure story that demystifies this occupation.

Recounts the life and epic rescue of captured fugitive slave Charles Nalle of Culpeper, Virginia, who was forcibly liberated by Harriet Tubman and others in Troy, New York, on April 27, 1860. This title follows Nalle from his enslavement by the Hansborough family in Virginia through his escape by the Underground Railroad.

The first comprehensive examination of the early blues industry and the music it produced

A cogent analysis of North American trade unions' precipitous decline in recent decades

A broad, historical appraisal of the evolution of work safety and health regulation in the U.S.

The dramatic story of a legendary American composer

Personally enigmatic and often described as difficult to work with, Fritz Reiner was nevertheless renowned for the dynamic galvanization of the orchestras he led, a nearly unrivalled technical ability, and high professional standards. This book is a portrait of a man who was both his own worst enemy and one of the true titans of his profession.

Traces the shadowy history of Chinese leftism and the role of the Kuomintang of China in influencing affairs in America. This title penetrates the overly politicized portrayals of a history shaped by global alliances and enmities and the hard intolerance of the Cold War era.

An anthropological analysis of Sarajevo and its cultural complexities that examines contemporary issues of social divisiveness, pluralism, and intergroup dynamics in the context of national identity and state formation.

Documents an alternative tradition of American protest by linking working-class political movements to grassroots religious revivals. This book reveals how ordinary rural citizens in the south used the resources and their shared faith to defend their agrarian livelihoods amid the political and economic upheaval of the first half of 20th century.

Offers perspectives on black history - its scholarship and pedagogy, scholars and interpreters, and evolution as a profession. This book discusses various issues and themes for understanding and analyzing African American history, the 20th century black historical enterprise, and the teaching of African American history for the 21st century.

A rich and definitive history of the gay rights movement's West Coast origins

A dramatic story of worker resistance in a pivotal labor struggle

A unique look at the Latter-day Saints' recreational efforts intended to "Mormonize" a rising generation of young men and women

The challenges and successes of unionization at four U.S. airlines, with a focus on baggage handlers

A stimulating variety of approaches to the history of a distinctive Midwestern city

A celebration of the fast, the strong, the agile, and the tricky throughout Chicago's storied sports history

What the law did to and for Abraham Lincoln, and its important impact on his future presidency

Exploring the narratives that orient the lives of women scholars

Representing the sexuality of black middle class women in contemporary popular culture

A detailed account of labor corruption in the 1930s and the zealous journalist who railed against it

The story of the night club impresario whose wildly successful interracial club, Cafe Society, changed the American artistic landscape forever

An inclusive narrative of golf's history and popularity in the United States

Eric Saylor is an associate professor of musicology at Drake University. He coedited Blackness in Opera and The Sea in the British Musical Imagination.

Looking past the rhetoric to expose the forces that shaped Shawnee nationalism