Bread Pudding and Other Memories: A Boyhood on the Farm
Baseball and American Culture: Across the Diamond (Contemporary Sports Issues)
Baseball: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
Football: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
The 1960s: American Popular Culture Through History
F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography
Legends of American Indian Resistance
Baseball in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching the National Pastime
Murder 101: Essays on the Teaching of Detective Fiction
The Sister Fidelma Mysteries: Essays on the Historical Novels of Peter Tremayne
Approaches to Teaching Swift's Gulliver's Travels (Approaches to Teaching World Literature)
Neighborhood Heroes: Life Lessons Learned from Maine's Greatest Generation
Answers Instead: A Life in Haiku
Abandoned farmhouse: And other haiku
Ways of Looking: Poems of the Farm
Old Whitman Loved Baseball and Other Baseball Poems
The Breaking of Glass Horses and Other Poems
A Fine, Safe Journey: Poems about Haying and Other Matters
To Sadie at 18 Months and Other Poems
Answers Instead: A Life in Haiku
Football. Far more than a game, America’s favorite spectator sport is an intrinsic part of the nation’s popular culture—a proving ground for high school athletes, a springboard for stars, a multimillion-dollar business, and a vast entertainment enterprise. Football: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture provides a detailed look at America’s pastime through the lens of pop culture, a fascinating A-to-Z inventory of how certain aspects of the game affect and reflect broader society.
From African Americans in football to the meaning of Zero in the sport, this volume profiles players and personalities, teams and events, games and football concepts, and sociological and technological changes in the sport. The goal is not to name every Hall of Famer or to retell the game’s entire history, but to give a clear and detailed account of where, in football history, the importance of people and events extends beyond the playing field. Its wide-ranging entries examine such names as Joe Montana and Byron “Whizzer” White and phenomena from concussions, mascots, team names, and literature to U.S. presidents and football’s presence in television commercials. The encyclopedia covers all levels of play—professional, collegiate, high school, and youth—offering a from-the-ground-up, gridiron look at the game of football within the matrix of American culture.