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At Home, At War : Domesticity and World War I in American Literature / by Haytock, Jennifer Anne

Table of Contents: “…The ideology of domesticity and war in World War I -- Parents and soldiers: incest and experience -- Domesticity at the front: gender, resistance, and self -- "Because women have babies": Hemingway's soldiers and their pregnant women -- The return of the dead to the American family.…”
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Queering Cold War Poetry : Ethics of Vulnerability in Cuba and the United States / by Keenaghan, Eric

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The Cotton Plantation South since the Civil War / by Aiken, Charles S. (Charles Shelton), 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Overview of the southern plantation -- From old south to new south plantation -- The demise of the plantation -- Mechanization of the plantation -- The world of plantation blacks -- Mobilization -- Confrontation -- The war on poverty -- School desegregation -- The right to vote : an illusive black power -- New settlement patterns -- Quest for a nonagrarian economy -- Epilogue.…”
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The President as Statesman : Woodrow Wilson and the Constitution / by Stid, Daniel D.

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J. Edgar Hoover and the Anti-Interventionists : FBI Political Surveillance and the Rise of the Domestic Security State, 1939-1945 / by Charles, Douglas M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Background -- Beginnings : war, phony war, and election, 1939-40 -- Intensification : the lend-lease debate, America First, and its allies, December 1940 to summer 1941 -- Focus : from great debate stalemate to wartime probe, mid-1941 to summer 1942 -- Retribution : the FBI and the Victory Program leak, 4 December 1941 to mid-1942 -- Blossoming of the domestic security state, November 1941 to March 1942 -- Conclusion.…”
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American Studies as Transnational Practice : Turning toward the Transpacific /

Table of Contents: “…Industries of memory: the Viêt Nam War in art /…”
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Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace : Conservative Women and the Crusade against Communism / by Brennan, Mary C.

Table of Contents: “…The cold war world -- Who were these women? -- Women beware : the feminine view of foreign communism -- Women arise : the red threat on the domestic scene -- Manly men and the little woman : gender and anticommunism.…”
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Stage to Studio : Musicians and the Sound Revolution, 1890-1950 / by Kraft, James P.

Table of Contents: “…Playing in Hollywood between the Wars -- 5. Rising Militancy -- 6. Recording Ban -- 7. …”
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Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing : The Culture of Uplift, Identity, and Politics in Black Musical Theatre / by Seniors, Paula Marie

Table of Contents: “…The origins of the Cole and Johnson musical theater team -- Cole and Johnson's social and political thought : the case of Shoo fly regiment and the Spanish-American war -- Theatrical imaginings : Cole and Johnson's The shoo fly regiment -- The red moon : the interconnections between theater and history, the black and native Americanization program at Hampton Institute -- Cole and Johnson and the Gibson Gal : gender, race and uplift.…”
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Bright Signals : A History of Color Television / by Murray, Susan, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…"And now: Color" : early color systems -- Natural vision versus "tele-vision" : defining and standardizing color -- Color adjustments : experiments, calibrations, and color training, 1950-1955 -- Colortown, USA : expansion, stabilization, and promotion, 1955-1959 -- The wonderful world of color : network programming and the spectacular real, 1960-1965 -- At the end of the rainbow : global expansion, the space race, and the Cold War.…”
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Making Refuge : Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine / by Besteman, Catherine Lowe

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The Making of Détente : Soviet-American Relations in the Shadow of Vietnam / by Nelson, Keith L.

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The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880-1940 : A Quantitative Study in Social Change / by Galambos, Louis, Spence, Barbara Barrow

Table of Contents: “…The Progressive cycle, 1902-1914 -- War and the corporate culture, 1915-1919 -- pt. 4. …”
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Southern Politics and the Second Reconstruction / by Bartley, Numan V, Graham, Hugh Davis

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Workers' Struggles, Past and Present : A "Radical America" Reader /

Table of Contents: “…Philip Randolph and the foundations of black American socialism -- Organizing against sexual harassment -- Defending the no-strike pledge: CIO politics during World War II -- Holding the line: Miners' militancy and the strike of 1978.…”
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The Lost Promise of Progressivism / by Eisenach, Eldon J.

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The United States and the European Right, 1945-1955 / by Kisatsky, Deborah

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The Geography of American Poverty : Is There a Need for Place-Based Policies? / by Partridge, Mark D.

Table of Contents: “…-- Characteristics of high and low poverty rate rural counties -- Changes in 1989-1999 rural poverty rates -- Rural regression findings -- Rural poverty and proximity to metro areas -- Case study : Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska -- Policy implications for fighting rural poverty -- Summary -- How to win the local poverty war -- Synopsis -- Policy recommendations.…”
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Technocrats of the Imagination : Art, Technology, and the Military-Industrial Avant-Garde / by Beck, John, 1963-, Bishop, Ryan, 1959-

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