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...

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...

Between 1850 and 1950, at least 115 women were lynched by mobs in the United States. The majority...

This excursion into American cultural history looks at the toothpaste and toothbrush industries f...

In 1907, the editor of The New York Times wrote, 'Employers, naturally, look to the young. A man ...

Though the history of tipping can be traced to the Middle Ages, the practice did not become wides...

It is at 31.4 years of age that the average woman multiple murderer kills the first of her 17 vic...

Examines the chewing gum industry in America from 1850 to 1920, the rise and spread of gum chewin...

While sexual harassment of women in the workplace has been discussed for decades it is still a pe...

Following the 2013 revelations of Edward Snowden, Americans have come to realize that many of us ...

Between 1887 and 1920, the humble hatpin went from an unremarkable item in every woman's wardrobe...

Shoplifting is a practice that has been engaged in for centuries, but it was only after the Civil...

This work offers a detailed history of American actors' attempts to unionize in the late nineteen...

The case of Lizzy Borden stands out in the history of sensational criminal cases, but she was not...

¿ In the last third of the 1800s, America was struck by a bicycle craze. This trend massively imp...

Foreign films once enjoyed a position of prominence on American theater screens. By the start of ...

The use of endorsements and testimonials to sell anything imaginable is a modern development, tho...

This is the history of advertising in motion pictures from the slide ads of the 1890s to the comm...

During the last 20 years of the 19th century, cigarette smoking was transformed from a lower-clas...

The transition from stage to screen was not only a shift in popular entertainment, but a challeng...

The poverty that drives people to begging has been a pressing social issue in the United States s...

The polygraph, most commonly known as the lie detector, was created and refined by academics in u...

Film piracy began almost immediately after the birth of the film industry. Initially it was a wit...

Once the major Hollywood studios got over their loathing of television as an entertainment medium...

Pity the 'extras.' Mostly overlooked and forgotten. Especially those in the major Hollywood films...

This text examines the eyewear industry in America from 1900 to 2008, a period which mirrors an i...

This is a study of obesity in America from 1850 to 1939, concentrating on how the condition was v...

The early 20th century saw the founding of the National Security League, a nationalistic nonprofi...

This book recalls masking efforts in response to the Spanish flu epidemic.Masking the population ...

'Tarring and feathering as a punishment is present throughout American history, perhaps most nota...

World War I was a gold mine for the capitalist class. The only problem was that they did not want...