social conditions

Examines the different ways girls can be cruel to one another and provides advice on dealing with abuse from another girl.

Argues that legal and financial exploitation has led to the ruin of African-American urban neighborhoods throughout the country and offers examples of instances that support the theory.

Explores how images in the media, including magazine advertisements and mail order catalogs, influenced how women saw themselves and helped them to be both fashionable and frugal in the 1930s and 1940s.

Presents examples of women's representations in magazines and other media during the 1950s and 1960s and discusses changes in the ways women perceived themselves over the course of these decades.

Presents a series of newspaper articles on the dust bowl migration the swept through rural California, written by John Steinbeck for "The San Francisco News" in 1936, three years before he published "The Grapes of Wrath.".

Rufus, a gifted African-American musician, Leona, the woman who loves him, his sister Ida, and her lover Vivaldo, struggle with issues of love, hate, gender, and racism in Greenwich Village, Harlem, France, and other locales in the early part of the twentieth century.

Presents a realistic, factual account of the Plymouth colony based on contemporary archaeology, cultural research, and living history.

Explores the lasting legacy slavery has had on the African-American community and examines conflicting opinions on slave reparations, presenting primary and secondary documents that reflect opinions both for and against reparations.