Julia L Foulkes
Julia L Foulkes
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in Manhattan and the revitalization of the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn offer insights into the intersection of arts and urbanization after World War II. This intra-city comparison shows the a...
Microcosms of democracy: imagining the city neighborhood in World War II-era America [0.03%]
民主的微观世界：二战时期的美国想象中的城市社区
Benjamin Looker
Benjamin Looker
This essay sketches the rise of a Popular Front-inflected vision of the U.S. city neighborhood's meaning and worth, a communitarian ideal that reached its zenith during World War II before receding in the face of cold-war anxieties, postwar...
Sculpted landscapes: art & place in Cleveland's Cultural Gardens, 1916-2006 [0.03%]
《雕塑的风景：克利夫兰文化花园中的艺术与场所，1916—2006》
Mark Tebeau
Mark Tebeau
Perhaps the world's first peace garden, the Cleveland Cultural Gardens embody the history of twentieth-century America and reveal the complex interrelations between art and place. This essay uses the Cleveland Cultural Gardens as a lens thr...
This Harlem life: black families and everyday life in the 1920s and 1930s [0.03%]
这哈莱姆生活：二十至三十年代黑人家庭日常生活回忆录
Stephen Robertson,Shane White,Stephen Garton et al.
Stephen Robertson et al.
This article uses Probation Department files to reconstruct the lives of five ordinary residents of Harlem. It highlights what that black metropolis offered those outside the political and cultural elite, who have dominated historical schol...
Partner choice and homogamy in the nineteenth century: was there a sexual revolution in Europe? [0.03%]
十九世纪的配偶选择与同质性问题：欧洲曾发生过婚姻革命吗？
Marco H D van Leeuwen,Ineke Maas
Marco H D van Leeuwen
"Killed by its mother": infanticide in Providence County, Rhode Island, 1870 to 1938 [0.03%]
“被亲生母亲杀死”——1870至1938年罗得岛普罗维登斯郡的幼婴杀害案
Simone Caron
Simone Caron
This article analyzes infanticide based on the Coroners' Records for Providence County, Rhode Island, from the 1870s to 1938 to determine doctors' and coroners' attitudes toward mothers who killed. The nineteenth century witnessed a medical...
"Bessie done cut her old man": race, common-law marriage, and homicide in New Orleans, 1925-1945 [0.03%]
“贝茜杀了自己的姘头”——20世纪20至40年代的新奥尔良的种族、同居关系与凶杀案
Jeffrey S Adler
Jeffrey S Adler
This essay examines domestic homicide in early twentieth-century New Orleans. African-American residents killed their domestic partners at eight times the rate of white New Orleanians, and these homicides were most often committed by women,...
"The Attila the Hun law": New York's Rockefeller drug laws and the making of a punitive state [0.03%]
“阿提拉法”：纽约的洛克菲勒毒品法令与惩罚型国家的形成
Julilly Kohler-Hausmann
Julilly Kohler-Hausmann
In 1973, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller responded to panic about soaring heroin use by renouncing his aggressive treatment programs and enacting the most punitive drug policy in the United States. His "Rockefeller Drug Laws" mandate...
Regime change: gender, class, and the invention of dieting in post-bellum America [0.03%]
政权更迭：性别、阶级和饮食习惯在美国战后的发明
Katharina Vester
Katharina Vester
"Regime Change" argues against commonly held interpretations that see dieting as a practice established in the 1920s to control women at a time when they gained suffrage and greater economic independence. This article offers an alternative ...
Diseased, maimed, mutilated: categorizations of disability and an ugly law in late nineteenth-century Chicago [0.03%]
疾病、残废与畸形：19世纪后期芝加哥的残疾分类与一项丑恶法律
Adrienne Phelps Coco
Adrienne Phelps Coco
The article places Chicago's "ugly" law—an 1881 municipal ordinance that fined "any person who is diseased, maimed, mutilated or in any way deformed so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object" for appearing in public—within the context...