The 2010s might be remembered as a time of increased polarization in American life. The decade contained both the Obama era and the Trump era, and as the nation

The profound cultural and political changes of the 1960s brought the United States closer to social revolution than at any other time in the twentieth century.

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The essays in American Cinema 1890-1909 explore and define how the making of motion pictures flowered into an industry that would finally become the central ent