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Outlaw Marriages: The Hidden Histories of Fifteen ...

Outlaw Marriages: The Hidden Histories of Fifteen ...

Rodger Streitmatter

In Outlaw Marriages, cultural historian Rodger Streitmatter reveals how some of these unions didn’t merely improve the quality of life for the two people involved but also enriched the American culture.
Sex Sells!: The Media's Journey from Repression to Obsession

Sex Sells!: The Media's Journey from Repression to Obsession

Rodger Streitmatter

For Rodger Streitmatter, unlike many critics, believes that much of the media's sexual content is beneficial, as it gives parents and educators a jumping-off point from which to discuss such matters as AIDS, sexual identity, and sexual ...
Voices of Revolution: The Dissident Press in America

Voices of Revolution: The Dissident Press in America

Rodger Streitmatter

Streitmatter tells the stories of dissident American publications and press movements of the last two centuries, and of the colorful individuals behind them.
From Perverts to Fab Five: The Media's Changing Depiction of ...

From Perverts to Fab Five: The Media's Changing Depiction of ...

Rodger Streitmatter

The media, Streitmatter argues, have not merely reflected the American public's shift to a more enlightened view of gay people, but they have been instrumental in propelling that change. The book spans the breadth of communication venues.
From Perverts to Fab Five: The Media's Changing Depiction of ...

From Perverts to Fab Five: The Media's Changing Depiction of ...

Rodger Streitmatter

He supported that accusation by quoting NBC's top medical correspondent, Robert Bazell, as saying that when he wanted to air a story on AIDS, network officials told him, “Look, it ain't us. We don't want to hear stories about homosexuals.
Mightier than the Sword: How the News Media Have Shaped ...

Mightier than the Sword: How the News Media Have Shaped ...

Rodger Streitmatter

Instead of trying to document every detail in the development of US media through dry, dull lists of names, dates, and headlines, this book focuses on sixteen discrete episodes that illustrate a point that is much larger than the sum of ...
A Force for Good: How the American News Media Have Propelled ...

A Force for Good: How the American News Media Have Propelled ...

Rodger Streitmatter

This text draws on both historical and contemporary examples from a wide range of social contexts; the result is a fascinating tour of American history, social change, and the benefits of a robust media.
Raising Her Voice: African-American Women Journalists Who ...

Raising Her Voice: African-American Women Journalists Who ...

Rodger Streitmatter

Each chapter is a biographical sketch of an influential black woman who has written for American newspapers or television news, including Maria W. Stewart, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Gertrude Bustill Mossell, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Josephine St ...
Unspeakable: The Rise of the Gay and Lesbian Press in America

Unspeakable: The Rise of the Gay and Lesbian Press in America

Rodger Streitmatter

Since 1947, thousands of men & women have produced some 2,600 pub. ranging from weekly newspapers to radical tabloids to glossy monthlies. This is the first comprehensive history of the gay & lesbian (G&L) press.
Gay TV and Straight America

Gay TV and Straight America

Ron Becker

See Rodger Streitmatter, Unspeakable:The Rise of the Gay and Lesbian Press in America (Boston: Faber and Faber, 1995), 308–337; Daniel Harris, The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture (NewYork: Hyperion, 1997), 64–85. 59. See Diane Cyr,“The ...
Naval Power and British Culture, 1760–1850: Public Trust and ...

Naval Power and British Culture, 1760–1850: Public Trust and ...

Roger Morriss

N.A.M. Rodger, The Admiralty (Lavenham, 1979). N.A.M. Rodger, 'Officers, gentlemen and their education, 1793- 1860', in Les Empires en Guerre et Paix 1793-1860 (Vincennes, 1990). N.A.M. Rodger, The Wooden World. An Anatomy of the ...
Ghost Dancing on the Cracker Circuit: The Culture of ...

Ghost Dancing on the Cracker Circuit: The Culture of ...

Rodger Lyle Brown

The Culture of Festivals in the American South Rodger Lyle Brown. GHOST DANCING ON THE CRACKER CIRCUIT The Culture oi Festivals in the American South Rodger lyle Brown University Press of Mississippi/Jackson All photographs  ...
Shingwauk's Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools

Shingwauk's Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools

James Rodger Miller

A History of Native Residential Schools James Rodger Miller. TWO. 'No. Notable. Fruit. Was. Seen': Residential. School. Experiments. in. New. France. For all your arguments, and you can bring on a thousand of them if you wish, are ...
Law & Business Directory of Litigation Attorneys

Law & Business Directory of Litigation Attorneys

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Compact, Contract, Covenant: Aboriginal Treaty-making in Canada

Compact, Contract, Covenant: Aboriginal Treaty-making in Canada

James Rodger Miller

While many regionally focused works of this nature exist, they do not possess the same trans-national, expressly historic focus as does this book.
The Wooden World: An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy

The Wooden World: An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy

N. A. M. Rodger

'This excellent book, both scholarly and readable, gives us a new approach to the eighteenth-century British Navy, which helps to explain its historic achievement and illuminates the society of which it was a characteristic and resounding ...
Naval Records for Genealogists

Naval Records for Genealogists

N. A. M. Rodger

"This book is intended as a guide to the official records of the Royal Navy ... which are concerned wholly or largely with named individual officers or ratings."--Page 1.
Philosophizing Rock Performance: Dylan, Hendrix, Bowie

Philosophizing Rock Performance: Dylan, Hendrix, Bowie

Wade Hollingshaus

I could not have done so without the support and love of my dear colleagues in the Department of Theatre and Media Arts—especially, Megan Sanborn Jones, Amy Petersen Jensen, Rodger Sorensen, Darl vii Acknowledgments.
Playing God: The Bible on the Broadway Stage

Playing God: The Bible on the Broadway Stage

Henry Bial

At Brigham Young University, Megan Sanborn Jones, Wade Hollingshaus, Rodger Sorensen, and the students in the Department of Theatre and Media Arts helped ensure that The Book of Mormon would not go unnoticed in my analysis.
The Transformation of Edinburgh: Land, Property and Trust in ...

The Transformation of Edinburgh: Land, Property and Trust in ...

Richard Rodger

For over a century Heriot's had deferred the development of the Coates estate, but with the endowment of Donaldson's Hospital in 1830 to educate deaf and dumb children and its eventual construction between 1841 and 1851 on a site feued ...
Sweet promises: a reader on Indian-white relations in Canada

Sweet promises: a reader on Indian-white relations in Canada

James Rodger Miller

The essays in this book illuminate the general pattern of native-new-comer relations in Canada by referring to specific processes, events, people, and policies.
Essays in Naval History, from Medieval to Modern

Essays in Naval History, from Medieval to Modern

N. A. M. Rodger

The articles collected here (two appearing for the first time in English) cover a number of topics central to naval history and illustrate the author's contention that this is not only, or even chiefly, a distinct area of special study, but ...

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