Black Writers and the Development of Modern Outbreak Narratives
An examination of early American literature that highlights how racial divides exacerbated-and were exacerbated by-the spread of infection In April of 1721, the HMS Seahorse arrived in Boston from the West Indies, causing a smallpox epidemic that would plague the city for the next year. Of its 12,000 inhabitants, nearly fifty percent were ......
Racial identity and literary form in the modernist anthology The Image and the Fire examines the coterie anthology-a small, outsider literary collection-as a key, yet understudied, instrument of literary intervention within American modernism. Whit Frazier Peterson argues that these anthologies, produced outside of institutional or ......
Racial identity and literary form in the modernist anthology The Image and the Fire examines the coterie anthology-a small, outsider literary collection-as a key, yet understudied, instrument of literary intervention within American modernism. Whit Frazier Peterson argues that these anthologies, produced outside of institutional or ......
A cultural history of race, resistance, and representation in a city divided by politics and play When outfielder Bernie Carbo joined the Red Sox in 1974, he brought with him a toy gorilla named Mighty Joe Young that became the team's unofficial mascot for several players and many in the local press. This seemingly innocent stuffed animal was ......
A gripping history of FBI surveillance, political repression, and the fight for Puerto Rican independence In the 1940s, with the construction of a naval base and a bombing range, Puerto Rico became a major geo-political military outpost for the United States. For a power claiming global leadership in a decolonizing world, however, the ......
In October 1930, Macy's department store in New York City used the inexpensive book series "The Modern Library of the World's Best Books" as a loss-leader to draw customers into the store. Selling for only nine cents a copy, the small-format, modern classics attracted crowds of buyers. Businessmen, housewives, students, bohemian intellectuals, and ......
From a nurse who sees a rattlesnake in the pediatric ICU to an animal control officer convinced she's found her abducted daughter in the house of a dog hoarder, the thirteen stories in Freak Weather are as unpredictable as the atmospheric changes that give this collection its name. With dark and raucous humor, Mary Kuryla creates female characters ......
A rare inside look at the life of an ordinary Shaker A member of the United Society of Believers, better known as the Shakers, Isaac Newton Youngs spent most of his life in New Lebanon, New York, home of the society's central Ministry. As both a private diarist and the official village scribe, he kept mericulous records throughout those years of ......
This book takes a revealing look at how Americans dealt with the advent of the atomic bomb. When President Harry Truman introduced the atomic bomb to the world in 1945, he described it as a God-given harnessing of 'the basic power of the universe'. Six days later a ""New York Times"" editorial framed the dilemma of the new Atomic Age for its ......
