Social and cultural 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.

“Chick does a good job of portraying [General Beauregard] as the first real hero of the Confederacy, who at times proved his own worst enemy.

Analyses the Bacchic gold tablets from Greek mystery cults as products of performance culture and early Greek poetry.

"e;The definitive account of Union Maj.

A "e;well researched and vigorously written"e; account of social activism, radical politics, and the failed War on Poverty in 1960s Appalachia (Journal of American History).

Across half a century, from the division of Germany through the end of the Cold War, a cohort of thirty women from the small German town of Schonebeck in what used to be the GDR circulated among themselves a remarkable collective archive of their lives: a Rundbrief, or bulletin, containing hundreds of letters and photographs.

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.

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.

When the Choctaw Nation was forcibly resettled in Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s, it was joined by enslaved Black people-the tribe had owned enslaved Blacks since the 1720s.

On the eve of the Civil War, most people of color in the United States toiled in bondage.

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.

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

A New York Times BestsellerLess a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept.

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

In 1988, the renowned sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and the leading historian Roger Chartier met for a series of lively discussions that were broadcast on French public radio.

Berube analyzes the three great educational reform movements in the United States.

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.

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.

Some Confederates called him a "e;Bluebelly,"e; "e;Mudsill,"e; and even a "e;Lincolnite"e; (for President Abraham Lincoln), but the name that has carried down through the decades is simply "e;Billy Yank.

You cannot understand China without meeting heroes like Samuel Lamb!

An examination of women's work, rhetorical agency, and the construction of female reputationBefore the full and honest tale of humanity can be told, it will be necessary to uncover the hidden roles of women in it and recover their voices from the forces that have diminished their contributions or even at times deliberately eclipsed them.

What is environmental history?

About eight miles from Paris is the town of Versailles, which was but a poor little village when a great king took a fancy to it and built there a palace.

The first people of African descent to live in what is now South Carolina, enslaved people living in the sixteenth century Spanish settlements of San Miguel de Gualdape and Santa Elena, arrived even before the first permanent English settlement was established in 1670.

Paper is older than the printing press, and even in its unprinted state it was the great network medium behind the emergence of modern civilization.

When writer and historian Peter Wells found a cache of family letters amongst his elderly mother's effects, he realised that he had the means of retracing the history of a not-untypical family swept out to New Zealand during the great nineteenth-century human diaspora from Britain.

“Masterfully researched .

The stories of the doctors, nurses and patients at the Union Army’s hospital in Gettysburg come to life in this unique Civil War history.

The truth behind the amazing work of the women of the temperance movement.

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

One Confederate soldier's descriptive letters to his family offering a personal view of the devastating Civil War assault.

The story of the rise, fall and second ascendancy of nuclear power in the United Kingdom.

"e;A comprehensive, eminently readable, lavishly illustrated, and historically accurate account"e; of this important yet overlooked Civil War battle (Civil War News).

This memorial book honours the legacy of Eric Richards's work in an interplay of academic essays and personal accounts of Eric Richards.

Almost exactly 400 years ago, an English woman completed an astonishing walk to Rome.

The first people of African descent to live in what is now South Carolina, enslaved people living in the sixteenth century Spanish settlements of San Miguel de Gualdape and Santa Elena, arrived even before the first permanent English settlement was established in 1670.

The story of the rise, fall and second ascendancy of nuclear power in the United Kingdom.

“What If .

This book exploresthe close relationships betweenthreeof the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W.

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

Translated by Carl Ipsen.

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

Despite the nearly three decades since German reunification, there remains little understanding of the ways in which experiences overlapped across East-West divides.

The "e;First Lady of American Folklore"e; explores the supernatural side of the Civil War with chilling tales of spectral soldiers and haunted battlefields.

This study of the importance of the little-known Civil War battle is “a well written, thoroughly researched, amply illustrated, and engaging story” (Civil War Courier).

Filled with fine-scale drawings of Australian, Belgian, Canadian, Czech, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, and South African armored vehicles, including:*; Centauro Tank Destroyer (Italy)*; TKS Light Reconnaissance Tank (Poland)*; Ram Kangaroo Personnel Carrier (Canada)*; Renault R-35 Light Tank (France)*; Type 3 Chi-nu Heavy Tank (Japan)*; Scorpion AC1 Cruiser Tank (Australia)*; TACAM R-2 Tank Hunter (Romania)*; And many, many more .

The first biography to rescue the true story of Josiah Henson, restoring to history his role in the Underground RailroadJosiah Henson led a fascinating life-from the plantation fields of Maryland to the Georgetown Market to the plantations of Kentucky to escaping to freedom in Canada to being introduced to the Queen in England.

Marked by trauma, From a Borrowed Land bears witness to the Tamil experience during the Sri Lankan civil war.