Books written by Elliott J. Gorn
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Constructing the American Past: A Source Book of a People's History
The photographs, posters and maps included in the text ask the students to “read” the visual sources of American history.
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Constructing the American Past: A Source Book of a People's History
This popular reader consists of a variety of primary sources, grouped around central themes in American history. Students get involved in discovering history for themselves when reading Constructing the American Past.
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Let the People See: The Emmett Till Story
"Everyone knows the story of the murder of young Emmett Till.
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Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
In this first biography of "the most dangerous woman in America," Elliott J. Gorn proves why, in the words of Eugene V. Debs, Mother Jones "has won her way into the hearts of the nation's toilers, and . . . will be lovingly remembered by ...
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The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America
The likes of poet Vachel Lindsay and novelist Theodore Dreiser lionized him—Dreiser called him 'a sort of prize fighting J. P. Morgan'—and Ernest Thompson Seton, founder of the Boy Scouts, noted approvingly that he never met a lad who ...
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A Brief History of American Sports
A Brief History of American Sports reveals that from colonial times to the present, sports have been central to American culture, and a profound expression of who we are.
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Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number One
Presents an account of the activities of the Dillinger gang in 1933 and 1934 when they robbed over a dozen banks.
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Constructing the American Past: A Source Book of a People's History
The book celebrates the auctioning of the most fashionable artefacts, the highest prices and the rarest collectibles from the world of leisure and popular culture.
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The Manly Art: Bare-knuckle Prize Fighting in America
Recreates the lives and times of 19th century boxing champions and analyzes the social significance of the violent sport
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Encyclopedia of American Social History
Scholarly essays discuss such aspects of American social life and culture as sexual orientation, slavery, racism, and alcoholism
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A Brief History of American Sports
Traces the evolution of American sports from its early origins through the explosion and controversies of sports today
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The Bedford Anthology of American Literature Vol 1 + McGuffey Readers
The Bedford Anthology of American Literature Vol 1 + McGuffey Readers
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American Social Classes in the 1950's + Mcguffey Readers + Harlem Renaissance Reader
American Social Classes in the 1950's + Mcguffey Readers + Harlem Renaissance Reader
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The Manly Art: The Lives and Times of the Great Bare-knuckle Champions
This updated edition of Gorn's highly influential history of the early prize rings features a new afterword, the author's meditation on the ways in which studies of sport, gender, and popular culture have changed in the quarter century ...
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Constructing the American Past
Constructing the American Past
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Encyclopedia of American Social History
Encyclopedia of American Social History
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Encyclopedia of American Social History
A combination of the scholarship of historians, and work in ethnology, gender study, geography, literature, religion, anthropology, and sociology.
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Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till
The Story of Emmett Till Elliott J. Gorn. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 people he interviewed for his book Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi identified personally with Emmett Till ...
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McGuffey Readers + Plunkitt of Tammany Hall + Looking Backward, 2000-1887 + Southern Horrors and Other Writings + Thomas Edison...
McGuffey Readers + Plunkitt of Tammany Hall + Looking Backward, 2000-1887 + Southern Horrors and Other Writings + Thomas Edison...
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Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number One
The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number One Elliott J. Gorn. Lamm, Baron, 25 Lancester, Mary Ellen “Mollie” (mother), 6–7 Lange, Dorothea, 172 Larson, William, 213n38 Lausch, Rieley “Singing Mountaineer,” 175 law enforcement ...