Social and cultural history

Scholars of state socialism have frequently invoked nostalgia to identify an uncritical longing for the utopian ambitions and lived experience of the former Eastern Bloc.

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Sometimes we forget the goofy things that made us happy or the simplicity and possibility that was our past.

Assembled from hundreds of original documents, including intimate shipboard journals kept by Shenandoah officers, Sea of Gray is a masterful narrative of men at seaThe sleek, 222-foot, black auxiliary steamer Sea King left London on October 8, 1864, ostensibly bound for Bombay.

A Light Revealing: The Methodist Episcopal Church in Early America is a study in the transformation of John Wesley's theology into a living church, uniquely suited to its own growth and that of a nation.

The second volume of Tennessee Women: Their Lives and Times contains sixteen essays on Tennessee women in the forefront of the political, economic, and cultural history of the state and assesses the national and sometimes international scope of their influence.

This book examines Swedenborg's spiritual experiences of Heaven and Hell from an esoteric perspective as a feeling, the language of angels and spirits.

In A Late Encounter with the Civil War, Michael Kreyling confronts the changing nature of our relationship to the anniversary of the war that nearly split the United States.

A Dickensian tale from America's heartland,New York Times columnist Dan Barry's The Boys in the Bunkhouse is a luminous work of social justice.

One Sunday morning in October, Istv n and his wife Vera start their day as usual.

Despite over four hundred years of slavery and intimidation, the Black man continues to be dehumanized, delegitimized, degraded, and destroyed.

"e;LaPlante's touching biography of Samuel Sewall upends popular stereotypes about Puritans .

A bold reevaluation of the tensions between American and Israeli Jews that reimagines the past, present, and future of Jewish life.

Poems that Tell Stories are life lessons I have learned in my fifty plus years on earth.

Golden Nuggets is a collection of stories of the old South, stories of African American communities of the old South, and stories of successful African American youth of the old South.

Una guida turistica attraverso il bellissimo stato dell'Alaska.

Stupidity can come in many forms, but for Bertie, the stupidity that is heavily linked to his immaturity hides a very dark problem-successful, a City of London-based investment banker by day, center of attention at parties by night, and a miserable fucking mess on the inside that he hides from the world at all other times.

A provocative and insightful analysis that sheds new light on one of the most puzzling and historically unsettling conundrumsWhy the Germans?

"e;The voices of soldiers, sailors and civilians, northerners and southerners, generals and privates, combine to create a distinctively American chorus.

America's Battle against the COVID-19 Pandemic and Social Injustice focuses on one of the most tumultuous, historical, and unforgettable times in America.

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This history of our world is created from the witnessing accounts given to us by the Holy Writings inspired by God.

An interdisciplinary effort of scholars from history, women's studies, and family and consumer sciences, Remaking Home Economics covers the field's history of opening career opportunities for women and responding to domestic and social issues.

From the Kentucky Campaign to Tullahoma, Chickamauga to Missionary Ridge, junior officer Joshua K.

Artificial Intelligence meets Gettysburg.

The stories of the Black men and women who combated racial prejudice in Washington, DC, with sports and musicIn the Nation's Capital, music and sports have played a central role in the lives of African Americans, often serving as a barometer of social conflict and social progress-for sports clubs and ball games, jam sessions and concerts, offered entertainment, enlightenment, and encouragement.

The most important document in the history of rock 'n' roll since the liner notes to Killroy Was Here.

Common as Air offers a stirring defense of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have inherited from the past that continues to enrich our present.

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

"e;An enjoyable read and an informative survey of Victorian sexual tastes and preoccupations .

The cult classic essay collection from "e;one of the most emotionally exacting, mercilessly candid, deeply funny .

A collection of Civil War and Reconstruction era journalism by one of the most popular and acclaimed authors of the antebellum South.

Celebrated novelist, biographer and critic Peter Ackroyd paints a vivid picture of one of the worlds greatest cities in this brilliant and original work, exploring how the citys many hues have come to shape its history and identity.

Ayn Rand, author of the best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, is beloved by millions of readers, and equally despised by a significant number of detractors.

This important new book from one of the world's leading sociologists of sport weaves together social theory, history and political economy to provide a highly original analysis of the complex relationship between sport and modernity.