History of the Americas

Focusing on the impact of the Savannah River Plant (SRP) on the communities it created, rejuvenated, or displaced, this book explores the parallel militarization and modernization of the Cold War-era South.

Sounds American provides new perspectives on the relationship between nationalism and cultural production by examining how Americans grappled with musical diversity in the early national and antebellum eras.

Through the Arch captures UGA's colorful past, dynamic present, and promising future in a novel way: by surveying its buildings, structures, and spaces.

How did colonial Georgia, an economic backwater in its early days, make its way into the burgeoning Caribbean and Atlantic economies where trade spilled over national boundaries, merchants operated in multiple markets, and the transport of enslaved Africans bound together four continents?

Organizers, activists, artists and community members share their struggles in New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina.

George Washington Carver (ca.

The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from "e;regional backwater"e; to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now.

How the 1980 Philadelphia Phillies Won the First World Series Championship in Franchise History The road was rocky and the suspense intense as a make-or-break 1980 baseball season unfolded for the Philadelphia Phillies under a new, often-unpopular manager who sought to shape a collection of All-Star talent into champions.

In the late '90s and early 2000s, the Portland Trail Blazers were one of the hottest teams in the NBA.

In 1884, professional baseball was still in its infancy.

The Detroit Tigers Old English D is one of the most recognized symbols in sports.

On January 1, 1966, New York came to a standstill as the city's transit workers went on strike.

During his twenty-four-year career, Ty Cobb was an MVP, Triple Crown-winner, twelve-time batting champion, and was elected in the inaugural ballot for the National Baseball Hall of Fame (along with Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth, Christy Mathewson, and Walter Johnson).

On October 28, 1986, just one day after winning one of the most thrilling World Series in history, the New York Mets were feted by more than two million fans with a parade through the city.

In April 1998, legendary southern jam band Widespread Panic held a free open-air record release show in downtown Athens, Georgia, its homebase.

Through a compelling story about the conflict over a notorious Mexican-period land grant in northern New Mexico, David Correia examines how law and property are constituted through violence and social struggle.

In 1844, Lydia Sigourney asserted, "e;Man's warfare on the trees is terrible.

Focusing on the impact of the Savannah River Plant (SRP) on the communities it created, rejuvenated, or displaced, this book explores the parallel militarization and modernization of the Cold War-era South.

Through the Arch captures UGA's colorful past, dynamic present, and promising future in a novel way: by surveying its buildings, structures, and spaces.

In this study of antebellum African American print culture in transnational perspective, Erica L.

For most historians, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the hostilities of the Civil War and the dashed hopes of Reconstruction give way to the nationalizing forces of cultural reunion, a process that is said to have downplayed sectional grievances and celebrated racial and industrial harmony.

James Habersham was an early American success story.

In antebellum America, both North and South emerged as modernizing, capitalist societies.

The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from "e;regional backwater"e; to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now.

When Curacao came under Dutch control in 1634, the small island off South America's northern coast was isolated and sleepy.

Apples and Ashes offers the first literary history of the Civil War South.

Among Nashville's many slogans, the one that best reflects its emphasis on manners and decorum is the Nashville Way, a phrase coined by boosters to tout what they viewed as the city's amicable race relations.

Standing outside elite or even middling circles, outsiders who were marginalized by limitations on their freedom and their need to labor for a living had a unique grasp on the profoundly social nature of print and its power to influence public opinion.

In the decades between the Berlin Conference that partitioned Africa and the opening of the African Hall at the American Museum of Natural History, Americans in several fields and from many backgrounds argued that Africa had something to teach them.

In 1906 a white lawyer named Dabney Marshall argued a case before the Mississippi Supreme Court demanding the racial integration of juries.

What does one contested account of an enslaved woman tell us about our difficult racial past?

Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways.

Michele Reid-Vazquez reveals the untold story of the strategies of negotia-tion used by free blacks in the aftermath of the "e;Year of the Lash"e;-a wave of repression in Cuba that had great implications for the Atlantic World in the next two decades.

Sounds American provides new perspectives on the relationship between nationalism and cultural production by examining how Americans grappled with musical diversity in the early national and antebellum eras.

Today hop growing remains a viable commercial enterprise only in parts of the far western United States-notably in Washington.

Using Texas as a case study for understanding change in the American juvenile justice system over the past century, William S.

In Sitting In and Speaking Out, Jeffrey A.

This volume gathers more than one hundred letters-most of them previously unpublished-written by Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814).

Flashes of a Southern Spirit explores meanings of the spirit in the American South, including religious ecstasy and celebrations of regional character and distinctiveness.

Widely remembered as a time of heated debate over the westward expansion of slavery, the 1850s in the United States was also a period of mass immigration.

George Washington Carver (ca.

Drawing on two decades of teaching a college-level course on southern history as viewed through autobiography and memoir, John C.

For 350 years, Protestantism was the dominant religion in America-and its influence spilled over in many directions into the wider culture.

During the hot summer of 1906, anger simmered in Atlanta, a city that outwardly savored its reputation as the Gate City of the New South, a place where the races lived peacefully, if apart, and everyone focused more on prosperity than prejudice.

The 1954 Brown v.

Pharsalia, a plantation located in piedmont Virginia at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, is one of the best-documented sites of its kind.

Nicknamed "e;Euroville,"e; Spartanburg, South Carolina, is a home away from home for BMW, Michelin, Ciba-Geigy, and numerous other European corporations.

The biographical essays in this volume provide new insights into the various ways that South Carolina women asserted themselves in their state and illuminate the tension between tradition and change that defined the South from the Civil War through the Progressive Era.

The 1899 lynching of Sam Hose in Newnan, Georgia, was one of the earliest and most gruesome events in a tragic chapter of U.

Nationalism in the New World brings together work by scholars from the United States, Canada, Latin America, and Europe to discuss the common problem of how the nations of the Americas grappled with the basic questions of nationalism: Who are we?