These essays aim to chart significant contributions to recent historiography. Selected for their accessibility, with headnotes and study questions, the essays offer an introduction for the non-specialist. The introduction describes the emergence of gender as a subject of historical investigation and in ten essays, historians explore the meanings and significance of gender in American history since 1890. This volume shows how the interpretation of gender expands and revises our understanding of significant issues in 20th-century history, such as work, labour protest, sexuality, consumption and...
These essays aim to chart significant contributions to recent historiography. Selected for their accessibility, with headnotes and study questions, th...
Strangers and Kin is the history of adoption, a quintessentially American institution in its buoyant optimism, generous spirit, and confidence in social engineering. An adoptive mother herself, Barbara Melosh tells the story of how married couples without children sought to care for and nurture other people's children as their own. It says much about the American experience of family across the twentieth century and our shifting notions of kinship and assimilation. Above all, it speaks of real people striving to make families out of strangers.
In the early twentieth century,...
Strangers and Kin is the history of adoption, a quintessentially American institution in its buoyant optimism, generous spirit, and confiden...
