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American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20th Century
Title
American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20th Century
Description
References to and brief descriptions of the Committee on Public Information during World War I, and its chairman, George Creel, a former Kansas City journalist, pointing out his efforts with the committee "anticipat[ing] the full impact of nationwide network radio on mass culture," being "innovative in manipulating ways the public relations and advertising firms were during the 1920s."
Date
1999
Object Type
Book
The Ladies of Lawrence are Arming!: The Gendered Nature of Sectional Violence in Early Kansas
Title
The Ladies of Lawrence are Arming!: The Gendered Nature of Sectional Violence in Early Kansas
Description
Chapter of the book about border warfare involving women in 1850s Kansas Territory, discussing the active part of women in antislavery violence and other activity, promoting the entrance of Kansas into the Union as a free state.
Date
1999
Object Type
Book