The following is an excerpt from Here’s the Pitch: The Amazing, True, New, and Improved Story of Baseball and Advertising by Roberta J. Newman (March 2019) . From Chapter 5: Baseball, Hotdogs, Apple Pie, and Chevrolet . . . and Beer, Cigarettes, … Continue reading Excerpt: Here’s the Pitch
The following is an excerpt from The Dakota Sioux Experience at Flandreau and Pipestone Indian Schools by Cynthia Leanne Landrum (March 2019). From Chapter 1: Missionaries and Education in the Upper Midwest When artist George Catlin first traveled … Continue reading Excerpt: The Dakota Sioux Experience
The following is an excerpt from Hearing Voices: Aurality and New Spanish Sound Culture in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (February, 2019) by Sarah Finley. Hearing Voices is in the New Hispanisms series, which publishes innovative studies that investigate how … Continue reading Excerpt: Hearing Voices
The following is an excerpt from Of One Mind and Of One Government: The Rise and Fall of the Creek Nation in the Early Republic by Kevin Kokomoor. From the Introduction At the beginning of the nineteenth century a political Creek … Continue reading Excerpt: Of One Mind and Of One Government
The following is an excerpt from Echo of its Time: The History of the Federal District Court of Nebraska, 1867-1933 by John R. Wunder and Mark. R. Scherer (February 2019). During the 1920s, the man chiefly responsible for the enforcement … Continue reading Excerpt: Echo of its Time
The following is an excerpt from Citizen Akoy: Basketball and the Making of a South Sudanese American by Steve Marantz (February 2019). From Chapter 6: Trust Eric Behrens called basketball a “trust game.” By that he meant that its flow—spontaneous and … Continue reading EXCERPT: Citizen Akoy
The following excerpt is from the introduction of Words Like Birds: Sakha Language Discourses and Practices in the City (February 2019) by Jeanne Ferguson. This book is in the Borderlands and Transcultural Studies Series. In a classroom on the Northeastern Federal University … Continue reading Excerpt: Words Like Birds
The following excerpt is from Sacred Seeds: New World Plants in Early Modern English Literature (January 2019) by Edward McLean Test. This book is in the Early Modern Cultural Studies series. From Chapter One: New Seeds, Strange Countries One place the … Continue reading Excerpt: Sacred Seeds
The following is an excerpt from the introduction of Daughters of 1968: Redefining French Feminism and the Women’s Liberation Movement (January 2019) by Lisa Greenwald. Like the May 1968 generation, which rejected the traditional Left and redefined questions of power, second-wave feminism … Continue reading Excerpt: Daughters of 1968
The following is an excerpt from the introduction of Apostle of Progress: Modesto C. Rolland, Global Progressivism, and the Engineering of Revolutionary Mexico (January 2019) by J. Justin Castro. This is the newest title in the The Mexican Experience series, which includes books … Continue reading Excerpt: Apostle of Progress
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