Author: Richard Abel

This open access book seeks answers to a series of questions about the little-studied subject of prologues or theatrical presentations in American ...

At the turn of the past century, the main function of a newspaper was to offer menus by which readers could make sense of modern life and imagine h...

The concept of settler colonialism offers an invaluable lens to reframe early westerns and travel pictures as re-enactments of the United States' r...