Conrad Veidt, a native of Berlin, began acting in small parts as an extra until called into servi...

This book details the Liberty ships and the Emergency Shipbuilding Program during World War II. F...

Of the many dynamic, young playwrights to be associated with the 'In-Yer-Face' burst of creative ...

Military veterans have had some of the most intensive leadership training available. Many return ...

Ancient finger rings made of base metals and low-grade silver alloys are increasingly being unear...

Part of Alice's appeal is her ambiguity, which makes possible a range of interpretations in adapt...

The Gothic moment in literary history arose in the age of the Enlightenment, and the Gothic fasci...

Its maneuverability impresses pilots and laymen alike. Its design, which makes it capable of extr...

Many of the 20th century's most celebrated fictional sleuths appeared in Hollywood movie mystery ...

On September 26, 1968, Hawaii Five-O premiered on CBS. The show's exotic locale and quality writi...

The Caribbean islands have a vibrant oral folklore. In Jamaica, the clever spider Anansi, who out...

Since her late-1990s debut as a member of the R&B trio Destiny's Child, Beyonce Knowles has garne...

In most forms of dancing, performers carry out their steps with a distance that keeps them from c...

It is commonly accepted that the South could never have won the Civil War. By chronicling perhaps...

This work traces the history of the jukebox from its origins in the invention of the phonograph b...

It has long been said that a woman's hair is her crowning glory. Indeed, throughout history, hair...

When movie fans talk about their favorite films, they most often mention one or two particular sc...

'Egyptomania,' the West's obsession with the strange and magnificent world of Ancient Egypt, has ...

This collection of essays focuses on the girl sleuth, made famous by Nancy Drew but also characte...

More than 20 years after it was first broadcast, The X-Files still holds the public imagination. ...

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Ingrid Pitt, icon of horror cinema: her life and career. Full cast and production credits, synops...

What are the origins of the imagery and designs on common jewelry and portable artwork between la...

The Wild Wild West premiered on CBS in 1965, just as network dominance of television Westerns was...

The horror genre mirrors the American queer experience, both positively and negatively, overtly a...

Headstrong heroines and hot-tempered chieftains, loch monsters and hill fairies, cattle raids and...

The Arab region continues to be among the most challenging in the world for the progress of women...

This is a critical history of spy fiction, film and television in the United States, with a parti...

In the literature of World War II, the relative military effectiveness of the United States and G...

This book presents new frameworks designed by the author to ease integration and facilitation of ...

As a rookie in 1938, Joe 'Flash' Gordon became the American League's first power-hitting second b...

Incorporating recent scholarship and new archival discoveries, this is the updated biography of o...

Professional architects first began to arrive in California in the 1880s. These architects wanted...

Covers sex in William Blake's works and Blake's personal views about sex, and offers a more gener...

This work explores the interconnectivity of Southern Appalachia with other regions of the United ...

George Washington Lee's story, Guarding the Gate City, has been called the great untold epic of t...

The Essence of Strength

The American Film Institute has ranked Some Like it Hot as the greatest comedy of the 20th centur...

In 1907, General J. Franklin Bell, Army Chief of Staff, changed the troubled Regular Army's white...

In 1983, the city of Memphis was in the midst of making attempts to gain an NFL franchise. Instea...

Award-winning author John Kenneth Muir returns for his fifth 'Horror Films of' decade book for Mc...

This book studies masks in worldwide mythology and religion, the stories they tell, and the cerem...

Classic blues, one of America's most unique musical art forms, did not originate out of thin air,...

Film music has become more than sound added to enhance the excitement and suspense of a dramatic ...

Movement plays a fundamental role in human life, shaping how we think, communicate, and engage wi...

Of the many stories from Hollywood's vibrant, free-wheeling pre-Code era, one of the most intrigu...

Of the unelected political figures in American history, Thomas Nast ranks among the most conseque...

Ten days after the US entered World War I, the USSB established the Emergency Fleet Corporation (...