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  • Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.

    Popular Black History in Postwar America

    by E. James West ...
    From its launch in 1945, Ebony magazine was politically and socially influential. However, the magazine also played an important role in educating millions of African Americans about their past. Guided by the pen of Lerone Bennett Jr., the magazine’s senior editor and in-house historian, Ebony became a key voice in the popular black history revival that flourished after World War II. Its content ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Media Building

    Architecture, Design, and the Spatial Politics of Mass Communication

    Edited by Will Mari, Carole O’Reilly, E. James West ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book brings together leading scholars to interrogate the enduring and evolving relationship between journalism, mass communications, and the built environment. From the emergence of the first newspapers, media buildings have provided their producers and consumers with a “definable shape” and served as key nodes in the urban geography of communications. At the same time, the changing form and ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • A House for the Struggle

    The Black Press and the Built Environment in Chicago

    by E. James West ...
    Multiple Award-Winner!Winner of the 2023 Michael Nelson Prize of International Association for Media and History (IAMHIST)Recipient of the 2022 Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book AwardWinner of the 2023 American Journalism Historians Association Book of the YearWinner of the 2023 ULCC’s (Union League Club of Chicago) Outstanding Book on the His... ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • Canada Lives Here

    The Case for Public Broadcasting

    by Wade Rowland ...
    Canada Lives Here tells the tumultuous story of public broadcasting in Canada, from its inception in 1933 to the CBC’s current, controversial attempts to adapt to collapsing revenues and new technologies. It explores in detail the struggle to preserve public space and foster community in an environment devoted to profit-making, arguing that the ideals of public service broadcasting are more ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Overground Railroad

    The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America

    by Candacy A. Taylor ...
    This historical exploration of the Green Book offers "a fascinating [and] sweeping story of black travel within Jim Crow America across four decades" ( The New York Times Book Review).Published from 1936 to 1966, the Green Book was hailed as the "black travel guide to America." At that time, it was very dangerous and difficult for African-Americans to travel because they couldn't eat, sleep, or ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Black Detroit

    A People's History of Self-Determination

    by Herb Boyd ...
    NAACP Image Award Finalist: "Boyd's riveting new history…turns an oft-caricatured community into a world of actual, struggling human beings."—Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and MeA Michigan Notable Books HonoreeIn this book, the author of Baldwin's Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, economics, and spiritual life of Detroit—in "a blend of memoir, love letter, history, ... Read more

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  • Saving the CBC

    Balancing Profit and Public Service

    by Wade Rowland ...
    Asked to name the institutions that best define this country, most Canadians place our pubic broadcaster somewhere high on the list. But there is a very real danger that the CBC will not survive beyond the next two years in any recognizable form. Decades of budget cuts have left it dangerously weakened, and now a massive loss of television advertising revenue is predicted with the loss of NHL ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • When Did the Statue of Liberty Turn Green?

    And 101 Other Questions About New York City

    by The Staff of the New-York Historical Society Library ...
    A treasury of trivia from the New-York Historical Society: "An extraordinary tapestry depicting New York's story.... An almost addictive read."— Library JournalFor years, the librarians at the New-York Historical Society have kept a record of the questions posed to them by curious locals and visitors to the city. Who was the first woman to run for mayor of New York? Why are beavers featured on the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Encyclopedia of New York City

    Second Edition

    Edited by Kenneth T. Jackson, Lisa Keller, Nancy Flood ...
    Covering an exhaustive range of information about the five boroughs, the first edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City was a success by every measure, earning worldwide acclaim and several awards for reference excellence, and selling out its first printing before it was officially published.But much has changed since the volume first appeared in 1995: the World Trade Center no longer ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • The Invention of Design

    A Twentieth-Century History

    by Maggie Gram ...
    **From a brilliant cultural historian, a fascinating history of the twentieth century told through the story of design and its utopian promises“Fascinating, rigorously researched.” ―AtlanticA New Yorker Best Book of the Year**Design has penetrated every dimension of contemporary society, from classrooms to statehouses to corporate boardrooms. It’s seen as a kind of mega-power, one that can solve ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Contested Waters

    A Social History of Swimming Pools in America

    by Jeff Wiltse ...
    From nineteenth-century public baths to today’s private backyard havens, swimming pools have long been a provocative symbol of American life. In this social and cultural history of swimming pools in the United States, Jeff Wiltse relates how, over the years, pools have served as asylums for the urban poor, leisure resorts for the masses, and private clubs for middle-class suburbanites. As sites of ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • With Amusement for All

    A History of American Popular Culture since 1830

    by LeRoy Ashby ...
    Popular culture is a central part of everyday life to many Americans. Personalities such as Elvis Presley, Oprah Winfrey, and Michael Jordan are more recognizable to many people than are most elected officials. With Amusement for All is the first comprehensive history of two centuries of mass entertainment in the United States, covering everything from the penny press to Playboy, the NBA to NASCAR ... Read more

    $36.89 USD