A chronological history of children's playtime over the last 200 years If you believe the
experts,“child's play”; is serious business. From sociologists to psychologists and from …

What is folk culture? What distinguishes true folk creations from the cultural hybrids of
commerce and popular innovation? To clarify this muddled situation and to provide clear …

This book traces the history of adult education in America from its roots in the popular
tradition of self-improvement, to present day education outside a college or university …

A timely study of change in a complex environment, Where There Are Mountains explores
the relationship between human inhabitants of the southern Appalachians and their …

Drawing on seven years of his own research and the work of other esteemed Lincoln
scholars, Shenk reveals how the sixteenth president harnessed his depression to fuel his …

Most Americans imagine the Civil War in terms of clear and defined boundaries of freedom
and slavery: a straightforward division between the slave states of Kentucky and Missouri …

In any historical study the closer one gets to the everyday life of the common people the
better basis one has for understanding that people's history. Few historical subjects offer …

The Great Revival in the West at the end of the eighteenth and during the early years of the
nineteenth century is one of a series of religious movements which shook the religious life of …

Although many refer to the American South as the" Bible Belt", the region was not always
characterized by a powerful religious culture. In the seventeenth century and early …

While much has been written concerning the anti-slavery movement in the United States, the
work of historians has been chiefly directed toward the radical movement associated with …