Rose Knox is the fascinating story of the woman who ran the famous Knox Gelatine brand for decades. In 1914 after six years of secretly running the company, Rose Knox revealed that she’d assumed her… Read More

In honor of the WCTU’s 150th anniversary, The White Ribbon Army Reconsidered provides a much-needed reflection on what was once the largest and most influential women’s political organization in the United States. Originating as a series of… Read More

At its core, industrial education was a project of imperial modernity that sought to reform marginalized populations towards the extractive ends of empire and capital. Its architects and practitioners identified interlocked civilizational and financial benefits… Read More

Orchestrating Power explores how the expansion of the American state for the First World War reshaped the nature of governance. Nathan K. Finney focuses on North Carolina’s Council of Defense to describe how the council was… Read More

Gilded Age Entrepreneur details the life of an unjustly forgotten Gilded Age figure. Older brother of the notorious George Pullman, Albert Pullman made three early contributions to the success of Pullman’s Palace Car Company: his… Read More

In A Great Many Refugees Thomas A. Krainz examines how communities in the American West cared for refugees. The ten case studies include a range of different causes that forced people to flee, including revolution, war, genocide,… Read More

Nearly everything about the United States tobacco economy changed in the generation following the American Civil War. From labor to consumption, manufacturing to regulation, tobacco was utterly reconstructed, “comparatively a new industry,” as one contemporary… Read More