Book Sale: American Studies
Titles on Sale
Add to CartLatest titles in American Studies
Popular Eugenics
National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s
Edited by Christina Cogdell and Susan Currell
The motto "Eugenics is the self-direction of human evolution" was part of the logo of the Second International Congress of Eugenics, held in 1921. However, by the 1930s, the disturbing legacy of this motto had started to reveal itself in the construction of national identities in countries throughout the world.…
Traveling Women
Narrative Visions of Early America
Women's travel narratives recording journeys north and south along the eastern seaboard and west onto the Ohio frontier enhance our historical understanding of early America. Drawing extensively from primary sources, Traveling Women documents women's roles in westward settlement and emphasizes travel as a culture-building event.…
