Description:
By applying a variety of critical historical strategies and methodologies to the study of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American public life, contributors to this volume unearth fascinating chronicles in American history. The alliance of the Anti-Saloon League and the Klu Klux Klan in the early twentieth century, hurricane control as a paradigm of twentieth-century institutional life, Native Americans as historians of the United States, and the difficulties that a legal theorist of the 1930s found in describing the functions of marriage, are just some of the topics covered. These essays explore an enlarged vision of American public life, one that incorporates all the institutions identified with American society, politics, and economy.
Featuring many of the best-known historians of the United States, this splendid collection consists of fresh, first-rate scholarship that advances new arguments in the area of American public history.
Contributors: Frederick E. Hoxie, William J. Novak, James J. Connolly, Hendrik Hartog, J. Matthew Gallman, Wendy Gamber, Allon Gal, Beth LaDow, Charles W. Cheape, Michael Grossberg, Thomas R. Pegram, Raymond Arsenault, and Ellen Fitzpatrick.
Brief description:
Wendy Gamber is the Chair of the Department of History, is the Byrnes Professor of History, the Interim Associate Editor of the Journal of American History, is Adjunct Faculty in the Department of American Studies, an Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Gender Studies, and Affiliated Faculty in The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at Indiana University.
Review Quotes:
"This splendid collection features fresh, first-rate scholarship by historians who are advancing new arguments, based on impressive research, concerning an important set of issues in American history." --James T. Kloppenberg, Harvard University