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

Although female lawbreakers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were rarely considered dang...

Foreign films once enjoyed a position of prominence on American theater screens. By the start of ...

Between 1850 and 1950, at least 115 women were lynched by mobs in the United States. The majority...

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

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...

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...