Books by Louis P. Masur

A suspenseful account of the first World Series of 1903 recounts the events surrounding the play-off between the National League Pittsburgh Pirates and the American League Boston Americans, describing the near-hysteria that prevailed among the players, fans, and other contributors as well as the series' unexpected conclusion. Reprint.

In THE CHALLENGE OF AMERICAN HISTORY, Louis Masur brings together a sampling recent scholarship to determine the key issues preoccupying historians of American history and to contemplate the discipline's direction for the future . The 15 summary essays comprising this volume allow professional historians, history teachers, and students to grasp in a convenient and accessible form what historians have been writing about. Arranged in a general chronological order, these essays probe such topics as the age of discovery, colonial American history, emancipation, race and labor history, law and political development, and the nature of historical writing since the 1960s. Additional essays discuss race and gender in colonial as well as modern America, the new paradigms of urban history, religious history, visual culture, public history, the new narrative history, and the meanings of national culture. Contents and contributors: An Americanist's Reprise: The Pervasive Role of Histoire Problème in Historical Scholarship Concerning the United States since the 1960s, Michael Kammen; The Age of Discovery, Peter C. Mancall Porous Boundaries and Shifting Borderlands: The American Experience in a New World Order, Jeanne Chase; Exploding Colonial American History: Amerindian, Atlantic, and Global Perspectives, Ian K. Steele; Beyond the Great Debates: Gender and Race in Early America, Kathleen M. Brown; Up from Exclusion: Black and White Workers, Race, and the State of Labor History, Eric Arnesen; White Cities, Linguistic Turns, and Disneylands: The New Paradigms of Urban History, Timothy J. Gilfoyle; Law and American Political Development, 1877-1938, Daniel R. Ernst; Race and Gender in Modern America, Jacqueline Jones; Faith and Morals in the United States, 1865-present, John T. McGreevy; For the Love of Stories, James Goodman; Filling in the Picture: Visual Culture, George H. Roeder, Jr; "History is a Luxury": Mrs. Thatcher, Mr. Disney, and (Public) History, Douglas Greenberg; National Culture and Communities of Descent, David A. Hollinger.

Selections from personal letters, diaries, and journal articles bring together wartime writings of fourteen writers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frederick Douglass, and reveal their efforts to influence the events of the Civil War. Reprint. AB. LJ. UP.

A history of one of the rock-and-roll artist's most acclaimed albums explores its themes of youth, escape, and potential while considering how it cemented Springsteen and the E Street Band's placement in American art, in an account that also describes the obstacles that challenged its creation. By the author of The Soiling of Old Glory.

Traces the story behind the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1976 photograph in which an enraged white man used an American flag as a weapon on an African-American, examining how racism, cultural beliefs about the flag, and the power of photography combined to capture the famous picture.

Traces the story behind the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1976 photograph in which an enraged white man used an American flag as a weapon on an African-American, examining how racism, cultural beliefs about the flag, and the power of photography combined to capture the famous picture. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

A close-up view of a pivotal year in American history focuses on 1831, a year that began with a solar eclipse and that included Nat Turner's rebellion, increasingly violent congressional debates over slavery and tariffs, religious revivalism, technological innovation, and Jackson's harsh policies toward Native Americans, all setting the stage for the coming Civil War. Reprint.