From 1921 through 1930, a young George E. Outland, who would go on to be a Yale Ph.D. and become ...

In 1831, Prussia was consumed by two fears: the possibility of revolution resulting from the 1830...

In 1995, United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said of the Cable News Network, '...

The 1990s produced some of the greatest artists and hits in dance music history. And the decade w...

Although readers and filmgoers are strongly familiar with Disney's sanitized child-centric fairy ...

More than 300 Bible or New Testament translations, including the popular King James Version, have...

John Fowles wrote five compelling stories later made into motion pictures. This book examines for...

'I heard one [presidential] candidate say that what this country needed was a president for the '...

Upon its original publication in 1962, Edward Wagenknecht's The Movies in the Age of Innocence im...

This book examines Lee Smith's novel-length fiction and its powerful reflection of her personal s...

The lure of gold in the American West beckoned to thousands of hungry settlers eager to stake a c...

This book analyzes the evolution of film and television comedy from the 1930s through the present...

We are made up of 100 trillion cells all of which communicate with each other via chemical and el...

The MC5's 1969 live album Kick Out the Jams was a new measure of the relationship between music a...

Songwriters, performers and producers Erik Appelwick, Eric Fawcett, John Hermanson and Darren Jac...

''If a judgment were ever rendered on all the multi-million words I have spoken into microphones,...

The offbeat musicals... The stylized biopics... The visceral social dramas... The one-of-kind gen...

The Christian faith has had a powerful impact on every sphere of art in the West, even art which ...

In 2002, the Cedarville School Board in Crawford County, Arkansas, ordered the removal of J.K. Ro...

The changes Cuba experienced following the collapse of the Soviet Union compelled Cuban filmmaker...

Beginning with the ideas of literary theorist Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin, this book examines wa...

According to sociologist C. Wright Mills, we do not live in a world of solid fact but in a world ...

For centuries, blindfold chess--the art of playing without sight of the board or pieces--has prod...

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

Filmmakers employ various images to suggest the strangeness of outer space, but protective spaces...

Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. It re...

Appointed by Pope Paul IV to examine the role of women in the Bible, the Pontifical Biblical Comm...

Asheville, North Carolina, grew from humble beginnings as a hamlet for local livestock handlers t...

An eleven-year-old boy strangled an elderly woman for the equivalent of five dollars in 2007, the...

Karl Dane's life was a Cinderella story gone horribly wrong. The immigrant from Copenhagen was ra...

W.H. Auden's life and work were perhaps best explained and condensed in the words of Edward Mende...

With the nineteenth century came new freedom for European Jews. Enjoying an integration that had ...

Occurring alongside the Women's Rights, Gay Rights, Civil Rights, and other identity movements of...

Features 470 tales told in Mexico, Central America and South America, a region under represented ...

Taking up its position astride the Peking-Mukden [Beijing-Shenyang] railway beginning in January,...

Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad has emerged as a defining example of the recent renaissance in tele...

During his playing career, a baseball player's every action on the field is documented--every at ...

'O'Neill's figures move within purposefully animated natural environments--ocean, dense forest, d...

Upon first consideration, sport and art seem to occupy separate, even opposing, realms--sport, as...

The audience's first exposure to a new movie is often in the form of a 'coming attraction' traile...

The early history of American settlement, pioneering, and independence is marked by fascinating c...

Like her more famous brother William, Dorothy Wordsworth was also an important writer. Yet her wo...

The Buffalo Bills of the National Football League have a fervent fan base; the city's love affair...

''Every magnate in the country is indebted to [Harry Wright] for the establishment of baseball as...

When the Civil War broke out, women answered the call for help. They broke away from their tradit...

'The first of its kind, this book explores the moral dimensions of playing poker for money throug...

At first glance, Lloyd Hamilton was a large, baby-faced comic who walked like a duck. To the trai...

Tells the story of John Brown, and of the age he both represented and stood as symbol of oppositi...