In telling the place-specific history of the Chicago Bulls, this study argues that sports franchises at the end of the twentieth century shaped and capitalized …
“The Age of Encampment: Race, Migration, Surveillance, and the Power of Spatial Scripts, 1933-1950” is an attempt at writing the history of the rise of …
The political campaign to reassert American power abroad after the Vietnam War made for some strange bedfellows. What brought together the pacifist civil rights leader …
Using official reports, academic studies, journalistic and literary sources, and original maps from census data, this study investigates Chicago's "riot zone" where most of the …
“Performing Disemployment” argues that theatre and performance practices emerged as the critical nexus between disability politics and the politics of work in the United States …
“Entrepreneurs in the Age of Chinese Exclusion” tells the story of Chinese restaurants transforming from an ethnic enclave business into one of the largest mass-consumer …
Abstract of "To Serve the Race...and Redeem the South": Gender and the Southern Interracial Network, 1919-1949, by Caroline C. Cortina, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2011.Drawing …
In the 1910s, groups of middle-class women began organizing voluntary youth organizations to provide a blend of recreation, spirituality, patriotism, and character development for America's …