Department of History and Art History

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This collection contains research from members of the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University.

The Ghost of Jim Crow at The Prom: The Separation of The Races in The Post-Jim Crow South

Pickering, Charles (2020)

Though racial discrimination continues to be a problem, Southern schools have made progress in integrating their proms in recent decades due to cultural and social influencers and whistle-blowers who called out the schools ...
The Pinkertons and the Paperwork of Surveillance: Reporting Private Investigation in the United States, 1855-1940.

Robertson, Stephen (2020)

For six decades beginning in the 1870s, American private detectives operated as a de facto national police force, filling the gap in policing services at the state and federal level that existed until the expansion of the ...