From 1910 to the end of World War I, American society witnessed a tremendous outpouring of books, pamphlets, and especially newspapers espousing virulently anti-Catholic themes and calling on readers to recognize the danger of Catholicism to the American republic. By 1915 the most popular anti-Catholic newspaper, The Menace, boasted over 1.6 million weekly readers. Justin Nordstrom's Danger on the Doorstep examines for the first time the rise and abrupt decline of anti-Catholic literature during the Progressive Era, as well as the issues and motivations that informed anti-Catholic writers and...
From 1910 to the end of World War I, American society witnessed a tremendous outpouring of books, pamphlets, and especially newspapers espousing virul...
From the 1920s to the 1940s, American kitchens had a welcome guest in ""Aunt Sammy"", a creation on the radio of the US Department of Agriculture. Aunt Sammy's Radio Recipes revives the accompanying cookbook and joins it with excerpts from the radio broadcasts, providing a fascinating study of how a fictionalized personae became one of the early celebrity chefs of the radio age.
From the 1920s to the 1940s, American kitchens had a welcome guest in ""Aunt Sammy"", a creation on the radio of the US Department of Agriculture. Aun...
