This work traces the history of the jukebox from its origins in the invention of the phonograph b...

When the need for telephone operators arose in the 1870s, the assumption was that they should all...

The poverty that drives people to begging has been a pressing social issue in the United States s...

Following the 2013 revelations of Edward Snowden, Americans have come to realize that many of us ...

The electric vehicle seemed poised in 1900 to be a leader in automotive production. Clean, odorle...

? In the last third of the 1800s, America was struck by a bicycle craze. This trend massively i...

Police violence is not a new phenomenon. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, police office...

This book examines the history of sexual harassment in America's public places, such as on the st...

The early 20th century saw the founding of the National Security League, a nationalistic nonprofi...

Although the 1880s are considered the beginning of the vending machine era, these devices have ex...

This is the history of advertising in motion pictures from the slide ads of the 1890s to the comm...

On a summer day in 1898, a family in Dover, Delaware, shared a box of chocolates they received in...