Nordstrom argues that anti-Catholicism was prominant during the 1910's because it insisted that Roman Catholicism was insufficiently liberal and therefore posed a threat to the nation's political fabric
The Provisions of War examines how soldiers, civilians, communities, and institutions have used food and its absence as both a destructive weapon and a unifying force in establishing governmental control and cultural cohesion during times of conflict. Historians as well as scholars of literature, regional studies, and religious studies problematize traditional geographic boundaries and periodization in this essay collection, analyzing various ...
The Provisions of War examines how soldiers, civilians, communities, and institutions have used food and its absence as both a destructive weapon and a unifying force in establishing governmental control and cultural cohesion during times of conflict. Historians as well as scholars of literature, regional studies, and religious studies problematize traditional geographic boundaries and periodization in this essay collection, analyzing various ...
From the 1920s to the 1940s, American kitchens had a welcome guest in "Aunt Sammy", a creation on the radio of the US Department of Agriculture. Aunt Sammy's Radio Recipes revives the accompanying cookbook and joins it with excerpts from the radio broadcasts, providing a fascinating study of how a fictionalized personae became one of the early celebrity chefs of the radio age.
From 1910 to the end of World War I, American society witnessed a tremendous outpouring of books, pamphlets, and especially newspapers espousing virulently anti-Catholic themes and calling on readers to recognize the danger of Catholicism to the American republic. By 1915 the most popular anti-Catholic newspaper, The Menace, boasted over 1.6 million weekly readers. Justin Nordstrom's Danger on the Doorstep examines for the first time the rise ...
