Social & Cultural History

This third volume of The History of Beaufort County by Rowland, Lawrence S. and Stephen R. Wise encompasses the remaining 113 years of the 500-year...

In 1893, Georgian horsemen from the Caucasus immigrated to the United States where for more than 30 years they performed in circuses and Wild We...

This book is about people who worked in the rag trade in the nineteenth century dressmakers and milliners, tailors, two shoemakers, a framework kn...

Founded in Philadelphia in 1879, the WNIA devoted seventy years to working among Native women. Bucking societys narrow sense of womens appropriate ...

The long-intertwined communities of the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation and the bordering towns in Sheridan County, Nebraska, mark their histo...

Outback Stories - Tracks Further Out explores the lives of outback Australians who shaped the cultural, political and artistic landscape. From Burk...

Explores American life in the 1940s.

Fremont is a culture (ca. 300-1300 A.D.) first defined by archaeologist Noel Morss in 1928 based on characteristics unique to the area. Initially t...

An examination of poverty and homelessness in Halifax at the turn of 20th century, this book challenges the notion that the poor are deviants who a...

Between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, an influx of Europeans, Asians, and Arabic speakers indelibly changed the face of Latin Ame...

This is a new edition of Emmet O'Connor's classic and pioneering work on Irish labour history, providing an introduction for the general reader and...

Eat History offers fascinating new insights into the emerging field of gastronomic studies and its intersection with cultural history, and includes...

Through Francesco Bianchini, the 'greatest Italian of his time' this book explores the exciting meeting of science, history, and politics in early ...

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Montreal Expos provided their fans with spectacular play produced by spectacular players. The team was ab...

When U.S. Congressman Lucian Anderson from Kentucky voted for the 13th Amendment to the Constitution in January 1865, abolishing slavery, he gam...

England's ill-fated first attempt to colonize America at Roanoke Island in 1587, more than 30 years before the Pilgrims set sail, has been the f...

The terror of yellow fever conjures images of mass infection of soldiers during the Spanish-American War and horrific death tolls among workers ...