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...

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

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...

On a summer day in 1898, a family in Dover, Delaware, shared a box of chocolates they received in...

This book examines the history of sexual harassment in America's public places, such as on the st...

The suntan experienced a profound change in the last century. Considered a mark of the lower clas...