This book explores the ways in which mid-19th Century American army officers' wives used material culture to confirm their status as middle-class women.

A sweeping review of the role of women within the American military from the colonial period to the present day. In America, the achievements, defeats, and glor

In Westerns, women transmit complicated cultural coding about the nature of westward expansionism, heroism, family life, manliness and American femininity. As t

This book focuses on the profound impact that racism had on the literary imagination of black Americans in the South. Sherita L. Johnson argues that it is impos

Every place is a product of the stories we tell about it—stories that do not merely describe but in fact shape geographic, social, and cultural spaces. Lone S