In The New American Sport History sixteen scholars, many of them among the best known in the field, explore topics as diverse as the historical debate over blac

A Companion to American Sport History presents a collection of original essays that represent the first comprehensive analysis of scholarship relating to the gr

Elliott J. Gorn and Warren Goldstein show us where our games and pastimes came from, how they developed, and what they have meant to Americans. The great heroes

The Routledge History of American Sport provides the first comprehensive overview of historical research in American sport from the early Colonial period to the

Each topic in this text is covered by both secondary readings and a wide variety of primary source documents, including legal decisions, diary entries, newspape