Social and cultural history

An odyssey from pre-Civil War Charleston to post-World War II Minneapolis through Jewish immigrants' eyesThe histories of US immigrants do not always begin and end in Ellis Island and northeastern cities.

'Bill Cooke is to be congratulated on his extensive and knowledgeable account of Warrington's history.

Intergenerational African families in which the grandmother is the primary caregiver of grandchildren and great-grandchildren are increasing rapidly in American society.

This book offers an on-the-ground view of colonial Calcutta''s neighbourhoods, where kinship-like ties shaped urban space and resisted city-making efforts of the state.

On 24 May 1497 Girolamo Savonarola was led out to a scaffold in the middle of the Piazza della Signoria.

Nell Gwyn, the most infamous mistress of Charles II, was a commoner raised from the dingy back alleys of London to the stage and into a king’s arms.

King John of England was married to two women: Isabella of Gloucester and Isabelle of Angoulême.

The Emerald Diamond is a must read.

This is a highly unusual and beautifully written book.

';A very funny [memoir] about the frailties of the flesh, the absurdities of modern medicine, and how to stay sane amid it all' (Dave Eggers).

Prior to the twenty-first century, most historical writing about women in South Carolina focused on elite White women, even though working-class women of diverse backgrounds were actively engaged in the social, economic, and political battles of the state.

A rich portrait of Black life in South Carolina's UpstateEncyclopedic in scope, yet intimate in detail, African American Life in South Carolina's Upper Piedmont, 1780-1900, delves into the richness of community life in a setting where Black residents were relatively few, notably disadvantaged, but remarkably cohesive.

The third and final volume in Tony Lurcock's series of compilations of British eye-witness accounts of Finland from the mid-18th century.

The Art of Conversation is a major contribution to the social history of language - a relatively new field which has become the focus of lively interdisciplinary debate in recent years.

An odyssey from pre-Civil War Charleston to post-World War II Minneapolis through Jewish immigrants' eyesThe histories of US immigrants do not always begin and end in Ellis Island and northeastern cities.

In Louis Armstrong, Blues Music, and the Artistic, Political, and Philosophical Debate During the Harlem Renaissance, Dr.

Inspired by a colleague's involvement in the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, Wall Street attorney Donald A.

“Meticulous research brings alive in equal measure some of the best-known and least remembered, but fascinating, episodes in Chicago Jewish history.

The ongoing war on terror, instability in the Middle East, and a faltering world economy are capturing headlines everywhere.

A groundbreaking account of the development of Germany''s first African community, which offers fascinating perspectives on transnational German history.

A comprehensive, illustrated history of North Carolina spanning from the colonial period to the twenty-first century.

This book presents a series of pioneering studies which together constitute a reappraisal of our understanding of the relationship between gender and history.

A vivid and moving story about family, courage, and the power of educationRuth remembers the day the sheriff pulled up in front of her family's home with a white neighbor who claimed Ruth's father owed her recently deceased husband money.

The Story Behind an Unsung Event in the Civil Rights Movement“Over eight days, eight students sparked change that defined their lives, changed an institution and fueled a movement that continues today.

A girl from a Yorkshire mining town is barely thirteen when her father kills himself - her brother finds him dying.

Searching for Freedom: The Nat Turner Revolt is a story about a young African boy who had matured into a man being considered a fugitive of American law.

The modern world is faced with a terrifying new disease , that of obesity .

Until the 1970s the history of sexuality was a marginalized practice.

In 1822, White authorities in Charleston, South Carolina, learned of plans among the city's enslaved and free Black population to lead an armed antislavery rebellion.

The true story of an Alaska Native village destroyed by flooding and erosion caused by climate change-and how they fought for help.

Peter Burke follows up his magisterial Social History of Knowledge, picking up where the first volume left off around 1750 at the publication of the French Encyclop die and following the story through to Wikipedia.

This anthology examines the role of Loyalism in the American Revolution, building on the pioneering work of historian Robert M.

A detailed and moving account of the indignities and cruelties Jews have undergone at the hands of Christians and others in the West, from St John Chrysostom in the 4th century to Hitler in the 20th.

Inspired by a colleague's involvement in the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, Wall Street attorney Donald A.

We "e;Set the record straight"e; clearing beliefs that African Americans, genetic descendants of Ancient Kemet, lack history until the event of slavery.

What constituted a secret or a scandal in times gone by?

Since its founding in 1801, African Americans have played an integral, if too often overlooked, role in the history of the University of South Carolina.

A 1930s collection of more than 300 recipes from South Carolina housewives and the African American cooks they employedFirst published in 1930 as 200 Years of Charleston Cooking, this collection of more than three hundred recipes was gathered by Blanche S.

Computers, mass media, consumerism, and family instability have transformed our society dramatically over the past three decades.

Since its founding in 1801, African Americans have played an integral, if too often overlooked, role in the history of the University of South Carolina.

You cannot understand China without meeting heroes like Samuel Lamb!

An in-depth look at the institution as the center of many important cultural shifts with which the South and the wider Church have wrestled historically.

With a new Foreword by April Baker-Bell and a new Preface by Vershawn Ashanti Young and Y'Shanda Young-Rivera, Other People's English: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and African American Literacy presents an empirically grounded argument for a new approach to teaching writing to diverse students in the English language arts classroom.

Translated by Carl Ipsen.