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Very Special People
Siamese twins, midgets, giants, bearded ladies, and hermaphrodites are among the people profiled with compassion and insight
The Body Snatchers
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Exploring Nature With Your Child; an Introduction to the Enjoyment and Understanding of Nature
Discover the wonders of nature with Dorothy Edwards' Exploring Nature with Your Child. From observing insects to exploring the night sky, Edwards offers practical tips and advice for parents seeking to share the joys of nature with their children. This essential guide is a must-have for any family interested in exploring the natural world. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Freak Show
This cultural history of the travelling freak show in America chronicles the rise and fall of the industry as attitudes about disability evolved. From 1840 until 1940, hundreds of freak shows crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns to the largest cities, exhibiting their casts of dwarfs, giants, Siamese twins, bearded ladies, savages, snake charmers, fire eaters, and other oddities. By today’s standards such displays would be considered cruel and exploitative—the pornography of disability. Yet for one hundred years the freak show was widely accepted as one of America’s most popular forms of entertainment. Robert Bogdan’s fascinating social history brings to life the w...
Weird and Wonderful
A wondrous assortment of curiosities attracted the nineteenth-century spectator at the dime museum.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
In 'Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine', George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle delve into the rarely explored recesses of medical history, bringing to light an eclectic tapestry of peculiar medical cases and oddities. The work stands as a testament to the diversity of the human condition, meticulously documenting a vast array of physiological and psychological anomalies with clinical dispassion and an undercurrent of humanistic curiosity. A compendium of the extraordinary, the book situates itself within the broader context of medical literature, both as a source of historical knowledge and as a reflection on the evolution of medical understanding. The descriptive prose and encyclopedic scop...
Scalps and Tomahawks
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Buried in Shades of Night
"Billy J. Stratton's critical examination of Mary Rowlandson's 1682 publication, The Soveraignty and Goodness of God, reconsiders the role of the captivity narrative in American literary history and national identity. With pivotal new research into Puritan minister Increase Mather's influence on the narrative, Stratton calls for a reconsideration of past scholarly work on the genre"--Provided by publisher.
The Captors' Narrative
The author reconstructs the lived experience of both captors and captives to show that captivity was always intertwined with gender struggles, providing a novel perspective on the struggles over female authority pervasive in colonial America.
