An estimated two to three million people in the United States today were raised by a schizophreni...

This book details the Liberty ships and the Emergency Shipbuilding Program during World War II. F...

Of the many dynamic, young playwrights to be associated with the 'In-Yer-Face' burst of creative ...

Ancient finger rings made of base metals and low-grade silver alloys are increasingly being unear...

Part of Alice's appeal is her ambiguity, which makes possible a range of interpretations in adapt...

The Gothic moment in literary history arose in the age of the Enlightenment, and the Gothic fasci...

Its maneuverability impresses pilots and laymen alike. Its design, which makes it capable of extr...

Many of the 20th century's most celebrated fictional sleuths appeared in Hollywood movie mystery ...

The CW's long-running series Supernatural follows the adventures of brothers Sam and Dean Winches...

On September 26, 1968, Hawaii Five-O premiered on CBS. The show's exotic locale and quality writi...

The Caribbean islands have a vibrant oral folklore. In Jamaica, the clever spider Anansi, who out...

Since her late-1990s debut as a member of the R&B trio Destiny's Child, Beyonce Knowles has garne...

In most forms of dancing, performers carry out their steps with a distance that keeps them from c...

It is commonly accepted that the South could never have won the Civil War. By chronicling perhaps...

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

It has long been said that a woman's hair is her crowning glory. Indeed, throughout history, hair...

When movie fans talk about their favorite films, they most often mention one or two particular sc...

'Egyptomania,' the West's obsession with the strange and magnificent world of Ancient Egypt, has ...

More than 20 years after it was first broadcast, The X-Files still holds the public imagination. ...

Many are familiar with Joseph Campbell's theory of the hero's journey, the idea that every man fr...

Ingrid Pitt, icon of horror cinema: her life and career. Full cast and production credits, synops...

The Wild Wild West premiered on CBS in 1965, just as network dominance of television Westerns was...

The horror genre mirrors the American queer experience, both positively and negatively, overtly a...

Headstrong heroines and hot-tempered chieftains, loch monsters and hill fairies, cattle raids and...

The Arab region continues to be among the most challenging in the world for the progress of women...

This is a critical history of spy fiction, film and television in the United States, with a parti...

In the literature of World War II, the relative military effectiveness of the United States and G...

Ten days after the US entered World War I, the USSB established the Emergency Fleet Corporation (...

The Essence of Strength

In 1907, General J. Franklin Bell, Army Chief of Staff, changed the troubled Regular Army's white...

The earliest history of baseball in black America surfaces not just in the pages of the mainstrea...

For millennia, ships have been used to fish; transport passengers and cargo; and bring divers to ...

This book studies masks in worldwide mythology and religion, the stories they tell, and the cerem...

Covers sex in William Blake's works and Blake's personal views about sex, and offers a more gener...

Film music has become more than sound added to enhance the excitement and suspense of a dramatic ...

The Scottish novelist Alistair MacLean didn't speak English until he was six, but he went on to b...

In the wild and woolly world of 1980s Texas Wrestling, the brightest star of all was Gino Hernand...

Harry 'Bucky' Lew leapt over pro basketball's color wall in 1902 and continued to integrate every...

Since the beginning of the foundation of the United States of America, dance and music combined h...

Award-winning author John Kenneth Muir returns for his fifth 'Horror Films of' decade book for Mc...

Sometime in the distant past, a human being noticed his or her reflection in a body of water. And...

Wooden barrels have facilitated the past 2000 years of commerce. During the height of their deman...

Movement plays a fundamental role in human life, shaping how we think, communicate, and engage wi...

As a rookie in 1938, Joe 'Flash' Gordon became the American League's first power-hitting second b...

Incorporating recent scholarship and new archival discoveries, this is the updated biography of o...

Western science fiction has evolved to reflect the social, cultural, and political issues of the ...

The American Film Institute has ranked Some Like it Hot as the greatest comedy of the 20th centur...

Montague Summers (1880-1948) collected real-life nightmares from around the world--the legends th...