Laughing Histories breaks new ground by exploring moments of laughter in early modern Europe, showing how laughter was inflected by gender and social power. "I

Interested in preserving her family folklore, Jeannie B. Thomas recorded detailed oral histories from her mother and two grandmothers. While analyzing the tapes

In a media-saturated world, humour stands out as a form of social communication that is especially effective in re-appropriating and questioning architectural a

Laughter is often no laughing matter, and, as such, it deserves continued scholarly attention as a social, cultural and historical phenomenon. This collection o

Bill Mares & Don Hooper are at it again with a history, and a potpourri, of Vermont humor, stretching back over 100 years. While re-telling some stories from pr