Kerry Segrave

Cultural historian Kerry Segrave is the author of dozens of books on such diverse topics as drive-in theaters, ticket-scalping, lie detectors, jukeboxes, smoking, shoplifting, and electric cars. He lives in British Columbia.

Ebooks

Jukeboxes: An American Social History

Lie Detectors: A Social History

Vending Machines: An American Social History

Product Placement in Hollywood Films: A History

Shoplifting: A Social History

Extras of Early Hollywood: A History of the Crowd, 1913-1945

Parricide in the United States, 1840-1899

Women Swindlers in America, 1860-1920

Beware the Masher: Sexual Harassment in American Public Places, 1880-1930

Age Discrimination by Employers

Dying for Chocolate: Cordelia Botkin and the 1898 Poisoned Candy Murders

Drive-in Theaters: A History from Their Inception in 1933

Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance in America, 1862-1920

Police Violence in America, 1869-1920: 256 Incidents Involving Death or Injury

Vision Aids in America: A Social History of Eyewear and Sight Correction Since 1900

Women and Bicycles in America, 1868-1900

Tarring and Feathering in America: A History, 1865-1920

Parking Cars in America, 1910-1945: A History

Begging in America, 1850-1940: The Needy, the Frauds, the Charities and the Law

Lynchings of Women in the United States: The Recorded Cases, 1851-1946

Women Serial and Mass Murderers: Profiles of 85 Killers Worldwide, 1580-1990

The Women Who Got America Talking: Early Telephone Operators, 1878-1922

America Brushes Up: The Use and Marketing of Toothpaste and Toothbrushes in the Twentieth Century

The National Security League, 1914-1922: Wall Street and the War Machine

"Masquerading in Male Attire": Women Passing as Men in America, 1844-1920

Chewing Gum in America, 1850-1920: The Rise of an Industry

Foreign Films in America: A History

American Television Abroad: Hollywood's Attempt to Dominate World Television

Taming the Automobile: Early Regulation of Motor Vehicles in America, 1895-1903

Masking America, 1918-1919: Efforts to Control the Great Influenza Pandemic

The Sexual Harassment of Women in the Workplace, 1600 to 1993

Film Actors Organize: Union Formation Efforts in America, 1912-1937

Piracy in the Motion Picture Industry

The Electric Car in America, 1890-1922: A Social History

The Hatpin Menace: American Women Armed and Fashionable, 1887-1920

Endorsements in Advertising: A Social History

Policewomen: A History, 2d ed.