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A remarkable new work from one of our premier historians In his exciting new book, John F. Kasson examines the signs of crisis in American life a century ago, s

Concern with the white male body - with exhibiting it and with the perils to it - suffused American culture in the years before World War I, he suggests, and co

An important new work from one of our premier cultural historians. "Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man" considers the surprisingly complex evolution in repres

Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the M

With keen insight and subtle humor, John F. Kasson explores the history and politics of etiquette from America's colonial times through the nineteenth century.