The nineteenth century saw the American circus move from a reviled and rejected form of entertainment to the ""Greatest Show on Earth"". Circus Life by Micah D. Childress looks at this transition from the perspective of the people who owned and worked in circuses and how they responded to the new incentives that rapid industrialization made possible.
The nineteenth century saw the American circus move from a reviled and rejected form of entertainment to the ""Greatest Show on Earth"". Circus Life b...
Whether loved or reviled, the New York Yankees have had an impact on American culture that extends well beyond baseball. In Pinstripe Nation, Will Bishop explores the myriad of ways in which the Yankees and their successes (or spectacular failures) became interwoven with the nation's larger cultural narrative.
Whether loved or reviled, the New York Yankees have had an impact on American culture that extends well beyond baseball. In Pinstripe Nation, Will Bis...
The National Football League that celebrated its first Super Bowl in 1967 bore scant resemblance to the league of its obscure origins. In its earliest years, the league was a ragtag collection of locally supported small-town teams that generated attention only in the locales in which they played, if they were lucky. Many teams received no support at all. Only after enduring a slow, often treacherous, journey did the enterprise of professional football reach its position as the king of the sports world by the late 1960s. In From Sandlots to the Super Bowl, Craig R. Coenen recounts the NFL’s...
The National Football League that celebrated its first Super Bowl in 1967 bore scant resemblance to the league of its obscure origins. In its earliest...
