Concise histories of American popular culture

Advertising / Elizabeth Williamson Almanacs / Robert K. Dodge Animation / Thomas W. Hoffer Architecture / Richard Guy Wilson Automobile / Maurice Duke Best sellers / Suzanne Ellery Greene Children's literature / R. Gordon Kelly Circus and outdoor entertainment / Don B. Wilmeth Comic art / M. Thomas Inge Dance / Loretta Carrillo Death / Robert A. Armour and J. Carol Williams Debate and public address / Robert H. Janke Detective and mystery fiction / Larry N. Landrum Editorial cartoons / Nancy Pogel and Paul P. Somers Fashion / Loretta Carrillo Film / Robert A. Armour Foodways / Charles Camp Games and toys / Bernard Mergen Gothic novels / Kay J. Mussell Historical fiction / R. Gordon Kelly Illustration / James J. Best Jazz / William C. Bennett Leisure vehicles, pleasure boats, and aircraft / Bernard Mergen Magazines / Dorothy Schmidt Magic and magicians / Earle J. Coleman Medicine and the physician / Anne Hudson Jones

Minorities / Faye Nell Vowell

Music / Mark W. Booth

Newspapers / Richard A. Schwarzlose

The occult / Robert Galbreath

Photography / Richard N. Masteller

Physical fitness / Claudius W. Griffin

Pornography / Paul P. Somers and Nancy Pogel

Propaganda / Richard N. Masteller

Pulps / Bill Blackbeard

Radio / Nicholas A. Sharp

Records and the recording industry / James Von Schilling

Regionalism / Anne Rowe

Religion and self-help / Roy M. Anker

Romantic fiction / Kay J. Mussel

Science / Annette M. Woodlief

Science fiction / Marshal B. Tymn

Sports / Robert J. Higgs

Stage entertainment / Don B. Wilmeth

Stamps and coins / John Bryant

Television / Robert S. Alley

Trains and railroading / Arthur J. Miller

Verse and popular poetry / Janice Radway

Westerns / Richard W. Etulain

Women / Katherine Fishburn

The study of popular culture / Michael J. Bell.