Through most of the 20th century, Atlantic City was controlled by a powerful partnership of local politicians and racketeers. Funded by payoffs from gambling rooms, bars, and brothels, this corrupt alliance reached full bloom during the reign of Enoch "Nucky"...

During the first half of the twentieth century, Atlantic City was the nation's most popular middle-class resort—the home of the famed Boardwalk, the Miss America Pageant, and the board game Monopoly. By the late 1960s, it had become a symbol...

In 1972, two pilots -- one a federal career engineer, the other the pastor of a prominent church in Washington, D.C. -- discovered a common passion for flying airplanes and serving people. One day over lunch, the men conceived a...

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Industrialist and early settler George May operated a dock along the Great Egg Harbor River in what later became Mays Landing in the Township of Hamilton. The May family, along with families with names such as Pennington, Gaskill, Wheaton, Clark,...

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The natural beauty, cherished past, rich traditions and smorgasbord of activities of Canada's eastern maritime provinces (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador) are best presented in the Green Guide Atlantic Canada. It reveals great places...

This book focuses on the migrations and metamorphoses of black bodies, practices, and discourses around the Atlantic, particularly with regard to current issues such as questions of identity, political and human rights, cosmopolitics, and mnemo-history....

This book situates the study of Black Religion within the modern temporal and historical structures whose geographical contours are the Atlantic World. It describes how black people and Black Religion made a phenomenological appearance in modernity simultaneously and were signified...