If you're intrigued by the ideas and arguments raised by Jared Diamond's National Geographic series, Guns, Germs and Steel, your first port of call should be Professor Diamond's Pulitzer Priz- winning ...

NANCY KOEHN: The 1920s were a very important decade in the lives of consumer society in America. Many of those goods, from hoop skirts to candy bars to cereal, had been around for several decades by ...

WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON: During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression ...

THEODORE CAPLOW: Robert and Helen Lynd went to Muncie, Indiana in 1924, with a commission to study grassroots religion. And they came back in 1925 with a marvelous study of social change, having used ...

HOWARD BAHR: There were some trends in the family between 1924 and 1978 that showed dramatic change. There were others that our data suggests that things are pretty much as they were. Between 1924 and ...

Funding Sequence: Do You Speak American?has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, promoting excellence in the humanities. Additional funding is provided by the ...

Perhaps it was the abundance of concrete, or the year-round painting season, or the city full of Mexican workers that made Los Angeles the place where murals began to be a predominant art form. Or ...

BRUCE GEELHOED: Lynd came to Muncie in the 1920's with some money from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., by that point a noted philanthropist, with the Rockefeller Foundation, the Rockefeller Institute for ...

"I don't think that you need to erase the Chinese-American experience in order to capture the American experience." ...

In late April 2003, FRONTLINE/World reporter/producer Renata Simone crossed paths in New York with noted HIV/AIDS researcher David Ho. He'd just returned from Taiwan and was planning a trip to Hong ...