Jenna Weissman Joselit: 3 books
Set in Stone
America's Embrace of the Ten Commandments
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
When Cecil B. DeMille's epic, The Ten Commandments, came out in 1956, lines of people crowded into theaters across America to admire the movie's spectacular special effects. Thanks to DeMille, the commandments now had fans as well as adherents. But the country's fascination with the Ten Commandments...
A Perfect Fit
Clothes, Character, and the Promise of America
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
A striking and inventive social history of the role of clothing in the making of modern Americans.
While fashions of the rich and famous have been lushly chronicled, little attention has been paid to the meaning of clothes for everyone else. Yet between 1890 and the outbreak of World War II,...
Parade of Faiths
Immigration and American Religion
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2007
Since the seventeenth century, millions of people from every continent have settled in America. Seeking a better life for themselves and their children, they braved deprivations, studied an unfamiliar language, adapted to a different way of life, and battled prejudices and hostility. Most of them...