Recently added articles from Journal of Social History:
Wilderness wives and dishwashing husbands: comfort and the domestic arts of camping in America, 1880-1910.(SECTION I LEISURE AND SPECTATORSHIP)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... When Grace Mitchell's husband proposed a camping vacation in the Bitterroot Mountains with another couple during the summer of 1905, she was suspicious. What would they do? How would they live without familiar comforts? As she later recalled, "The first suggestion of living for over three ...
The white elephant in London: an episode of trickery, racism and advertising.(SECTION I LEISURE AND SPECTATORSHIP)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... The publicity promoting the exhibition of the white elephant, Toung Taloung, began portentously in the winter of 1883 with an assertion of authenticity. A small notice, appearing in The Times (London), announced the purchase of an elephant by Phineas Taylor Barnum, the famous American ...
"The most popular unpopular man in baseball": baseball fans and Ty Cobb in the early 20th century.(SECTION I LEISURE AND SPECTATORSHIP)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... With two weeks remaining in the 1915 season, the second place Detroit Tigers arrived in Boston for a crucial four game series against the first place Red Sox. Though the Red Sox led by only a single game, Boston fans were wild with excitement, hoping that their team would take the series ...
Attitudes towards menstruation and menstrual blood in Elizabethan England.(SECTION II SEXUALITY AND REPRODUCTION)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Menstruation is a topic that has only become of concern to historians relatively recently, the stigma attached to this female flux surviving until well into the mid-twentieth century. Those historians who broke new ground by investigating menstruation and its products traditionally ...
Early modern midwifery: splitting the profession, connecting the history.(SECTION II SEXUALITY AND REPRODUCTION)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... It has been nearly twenty years since David Harley single-handedly demolished what he termed "The Myth of the Midwife-witch," and demanded a new history of early modern midwifery. (1) Responding to traditional medical historians and more recent 'herstorians,' who associated early modern ...