Social and cultural history

In the 1930s, Rabbi Roland Gittelsohn was a distinguished scholar and vocal pacifist.

Covering the post-Civil War period through the 1950s, this richly illustrated--300 photographs!

Drawing on media reports, interviews and court records, this book recounts the stories of women bank robbers in the United States, from the time of the Revolutionary War to the present.

Arkady Polishchuk came of age in Stalin's Russia, in the turbulent times before, during and after World War II.

Drawing on more than 22 years' research, this book presents an exhaustive chronology of the Great Sioux Campaign in three parts: the U.

Historically, American women have dressed as men for a number of reasons: to enter the military, to travel freely, to commit a criminal act, to marry other women--most often however to secure employment.

There is insufficient recognition given to Native American women, many of whom have made enormous contributions to their respective tribal nations and to the broader United States.

Providing a comprehensive history of the Baltimore Black Sox from before the team's founding in 1913 through its demise in 1936, this history examines the social and cultural forces that gave birth to the club and informed its development.

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Part food narrative, part investigation, part adventure story, Organic is an eye-opening and entertaining look into the anything goes world behind the organic label.

Throughout the development of the American West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest.

In this captivating Western novel, a wagon train scout runs afoul of a band of Apaches, who are determined to hunt him down, no matter the cost.

Tombstone was one of the last great boomtowns of the Old Westa small city that grew up overnight and has a larger-than-life presence in the mythology of the frontier.

Young Martha Jane Cannary began life as a camp follower and street urchin.

Throughout the Gold Rush years and beyond, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of nineteenth-century Colorado.

From the earliest days of the western frontier, women heeded the call to go west along with their husbands, sweethearts, and parents.

Das vorliegende Manuskript untersucht die historische Entwicklung und ideologische Struktur des Zionismus als politisches Projekt im Kontext europäischer Kolonialgeschichte, religiöser Konstruktionen und geopolitischer Machtinteressen.

The Surprising Story of the Plucky Drivers, Shrewd Owners, and Ruthless Robbers Who Snubbed the RulesAs pervasive as stagecoaches (popularly known as shake-guts) were in the early years of America, it shouldn't be surprising that women who possessed a significant dose of grit and an ounce of entrepreneurial spirit engaged in one way or another in stagecoach enterprises.

Throughout the development of the American West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Rocky Mountains.

Life happens at the intersection of faith and culture.

Idahos Remarakble Women 2 tells the history of the Gem State through the stories of fifteen pioneering women, all born before 1900, who made a profound impact on Idaho.

Though One Go With Me is the sequel to Pastor Blackstone's first book, Though None Go With Me, which retraces the steps of a Maine pastor back to the fabled land of India.

A book of brief essays, illustrative art, and photography from often obscure historical and ethnological studies of Apache history, life, and culture in the last half of the nineteenth century.

By 1900, the tale of the 300 Texians who died in the 1836 battle of the Alamo had already become legend.

Moral Leadership tells you all you need to know to lead.

Promises of gold brought the first waves of European-Americans to Colorado in the 1859s.

This anthology of first person-accounts by women who toured Yellowstone Park more than a century ago includes tales of high adventure, raucous humor, and glorious sights of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

**2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Gold Winner for Western Biographies and Memoirs**The love they shared for an untamed land brought them together.

In 1861, war between the United States and the Chiricahua seemed inevitable.

In 1869, more than twenty years after Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B.

A Sweet Taste ofHistory captures the grandeur of the sweet tablethe grand finale course of an 18th century meal.

Often overlooked, disregarded, or hidden from historical accounts due to its racy connotations, the prostitution industry was one of the most important factors in the development of the American West.

During the Battle of Fort Wagner in 1863, Sgt.

The purpose of this book, Diary of Agony and Hope, explores the ethical themes of justice and hope through the lens of folk sayings, case studies, and real-life experiences on the part of the writer as a resident of St.

What are the resources and teachings in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam that take hospitality--and its call to provide protective hospitality--seriously enough to inform shared action and belief on behalf of the threatened other?

It began as poisonous rotgut in Medieval RussiaIvan the Terrible liked it, Peter the Great loved itbut this grain alcohol \u201cwithout distinctive character, aroma, taste, or color\u201d has become our uncontested king of spirits.

The year was 1896, the woman was Alice Guy-Blach, and the film was The Cabbage Fairy.

Responsible Belief tackles the problem of fixing the tenacity of believers in forming, holding, and modifying beliefs.

Hmong American immigrants first came to the United States as refugees of the Vietnam War.

Footbinding was common in China until the early twentieth century, when most Chinese were family farmers.

This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of the historian and public moralist E.

Women haven't always had the right to vote.

A House Divided helps answer the question, how do Christians form moral judgments about sex-linked issues?

Challenging the "e;two cultures"e; debate, The Experimental Imagination tells the story of how literariness came to be distinguished from its epistemological sibling, science, as a source of truth about the natural and social worlds in the British Enlightenment.

Upon arrival to the United States, Mexican immigrants are racialized as simultaneously non-White and "e;illegal.

The Middle East plays a major role in the history of genetic science.

Very many people, including not a few Christians, do not find the Christian tradition very helpful for making sense of sex.

When sacred objects were rejected during the Reformation, they were not always burned and broken but were sometimes given to children as toys.

Technology is rapidly changing the way we think about money.

The Oldest Guard tells the story of Zionist settler memory in and around the private Jewish agricultural colonies (moshavot) established in late nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine.