This work traces the history of the jukebox from its origins in the invention of the phonograph b...

With its decentralized urban areas, pollution, and mostly inadequate public transit systems, Amer...

Although the 1880s are considered the beginning of the vending machine era, these devices have ex...

Payola is as old as the music industry and continues today. Contrary to popular belief, the accep...

The electric vehicle seemed poised in 1900 to be a leader in automotive production. Clean, odorle...

Historically, American women have dressed as men for a number of reasons: to enter the military, ...

Perhaps the single medium in which women have been consistently treated as equal to men is the Am...

When the need for telephone operators arose in the 1870s, the assumption was that they should all...

Each year, men spend an enormous amount of time and money searching for a cure to male pattern ba...

Women in policing have seen three phases of acceptance. Beginning in about 1880, they were admitt...

Police violence is not a new phenomenon. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, police office...

The relationship of Hollywood and television, initially turbulent, has ultimately been profitable...