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 …
This dissertation examines how a conservative definition of "family values" became ascendant in American politics. The project focuses on New York State from 1970, when …
This dissertation complicates the narrative of American environmental thought by revealing how many Americans held anxieties about the dynamic relationship between human nature, human identity …
This dissertation offers a new approach to the still dominant state/society paradigm, which has long assumed that local society would inevitably succumb to state power …
The Unquiet Americans presents a new account of the Vietnam-era soldier that is centered around the protest politics and countercultures of the 1960s. The histories …