Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century brings to life the most popular movie star of his day, the personification of the Golden Age of Hollywood. At his peak, in the teens and 1920s, the swashbuckling ...

How did the average American learn about art in the mid-nineteenth century? With public art museums still in their infancy, and few cities and towns large enough to support art galleries or print shops, ...

Ellen E. McHale is executive director of the New York Folklore Society and adjunct lecturer at Utica College. She is author of Stable Views: Stories and Voices from the Thoroughbred Racetrack and coeditor ...

James M. Welsh (1938-2013) was professor emeritus at Salisbury University. He cofounded Literature/Film Quarterly, which he edited for thirty-three years, and he authored over twenty books, including ...

This book traces the development of a Left feminist consciousness as women became more actively involved in the American Left during and immediately following World War II. McDonald argues that women ...

Angela E. Hubler is associate professor of women's studies at Kansas State University. She has published essays in the Lion and the Unicorn, ChLA Quarterly, Critical Survey, Papers on Language and Literature, ...

Born into a sharecropping family in New Hebron, Mississippi, in 1930, and only receiving a third-grade education, John M. Perkins has been a pioneering prophetic African American voice for reconciliation ...

Peter Goodwin Heltzel is associate professor of theology and director of the Micah Institute at New York Theological Seminary and an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). He ...