A history of courage and collective action inside the most powerful newsrooms in America In 1971, Susan Smith, a young researcher at Reader's Digest, dared to imagine herself as an editor. Her ambition was swiftly dismissed by a hiring manager who told her, "Single girls just don't do well in this job." Crushed-and then furious-Smith sought out ......
A history of courage and collective action inside the most powerful newsrooms in America In 1971, Susan Smith, a young researcher at Reader's Digest, dared to imagine herself as an editor. Her ambition was swiftly dismissed by a hiring manager who told her, "Single girls just don't do well in this job." Crushed-and then furious-Smith sought out ......
Piracy, Sympathy, and Ocean Politics in Antebellum American Legal Culture
Demonstrating how emotion became central to the legal and literary meanings of piracy in nineteenth-century America Pirates have long occupied a central yet unstable place in American law and national identity. In the decades leading up to and including the U.S. Civil War, the charge of piracy was leveled against an unusually wide range of ......
A cultural and policy history that explains why two neighboring states developed divergent attitudes toward government and culture At first glance, New Hampshire and Vermont seem like mirror images. Separated only by the Connecticut River, the oft-termed "Twin States" share a common history, relatively small populations, and heavily mountainous ......
Boston and the Industrialization of New England, 1807-1850
At the start of the nineteenth century, Boston was at its zenith as a maritime city even as New England was in decline. Many struggling farmers abandoned the area for more promising opportunities to the west. Yet by 1850, New England had been transformed into one of the most industrialized regions in the world. Former agricultural villages had ......
The untold story of how an unlikely Harvard atheist helped resurrect one of America's greatest Puritans Jonathan Edwards is widely regarded as one of America's most important and original thinkers. Prior to the mid-twentieth century, however, he was largely unknown to the learned community, except, perhaps, as a preacher of terror due to ......
The untold story of how an unlikely Harvard atheist helped resurrect one of America's greatest Puritans Jonathan Edwards is widely regarded as one of America's most important and original thinkers. Prior to the mid-twentieth century, however, he was largely unknown to the learned community, except, perhaps, as a preacher of terror due to ......
How a pioneering manuscript librarian and intellectual uncovered buried records that reshaped America's past As the London-based agent of the US Library of Congress, Ruth Anna Fisher (1886-1975) profoundly shaped the field of US history. Working at the British Museum and Public Record Office between the world wars, she was responsible for ......
How a pioneering manuscript librarian and intellectual uncovered buried records that reshaped America's past As the London-based agent of the US Library of Congress, Ruth Anna Fisher (1886-1975) profoundly shaped the field of US history. Working at the British Museum and Public Record Office between the world wars, she was responsible for ......
