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Examines some of the significant changes that took place in American society during the 1940s, and looks at specific aspects of the decade's popular culture, including advertising, architecture, fashion, food, leisure activities, literature, music, performing and visual arts, and travel.

Examines some of the significant changes that took place in American society during the 1920s, and looks at specific aspects of the decade's popular culture, including advertising, architecture, fashion, food, leisure activities, literature, music, performing and visual arts, and travel.

Provides an assessment of life and youth in the 1990s, and looks at manifestations of 1990's popular culture as they appeared in advertising, fashion, literature and music, travel, performing and visual arts, food, fads, architecture, games and toys, and sports.

Profiles the careers of sixteen dancers, including ballerina Gillian Murphy, modern dancer David Leventhal, Broadway performer Jamal Story, and others.

Offers a comprehensive overview to American popular culture in the 1980s, highlighting the music, films, television shows, actors, musicians, musical genres, and events that shaped popular culture in the decade.

Describes developments and trends in such aspects of popular culture in the 1970s U.S. as advertising, architecture, fashion, food, leisure activities, and music.

Explores baseball artifacts from the world's most impressive private collections and provides historical background on the objects.

Brind, the huntsman of Dowe Manor, is tossed out of the manor--along with his mastiff Glaive, the foster child Aurelie, and her puppy Gabion--after the landlord's wife dies of the Plague, and together the small group goes in search of safety in a land filled with the Black Death.

Profiles the history of slavery from the early days of the slave trade to the Civil War, the abolition movement, and the abolitionists who risked their lives for their cause.

Describes the history of travel on the Hudson, Ohio, Mississippi, Missouri, Rio Grande, Colorado, and Columbia Rivers through the nineteenth century.