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

Nixola Greeley-Smith was an important feminist journalist during the first two decades of the 20t...

With its decentralized urban areas, pollution, and mostly inadequate public transit systems, Amer...

Although the 1880s are considered the beginning of the vending machine era, these devices have ex...

The electric vehicle seemed poised in 1900 to be a leader in automotive production. Clean, odorle...

Historically, American women have dressed as men for a number of reasons: to enter the military, ...

Perhaps the single medium in which women have been consistently treated as equal to men is the Am...

Each year, men spend an enormous amount of time and money searching for a cure to male pattern ba...

Police violence is not a new phenomenon. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, police office...

The relationship of Hollywood and television, initially turbulent, has ultimately been profitable...

The suntan experienced a profound change in the last century. Considered a mark of the lower clas...

This excursion into American cultural history looks at the toothpaste and toothbrush industries f...