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In this absorbing transnational history, Alex Lubin reveals the vital connections between African American political thought and the people and nations of the Middle East.

In the first book-length history of Puerto Rican civil rights in New York City, Sonia Lee traces the rise and fall of an uneasy coalition between Puerto Rican and African American activists from the 1950s through the 1970s.

Just as World War II transformed the United States into a global military and economic superpower, so too did it forge the gun country America is today.

Prussian-born cartographer Oscar Hinrichs was a key member of Stonewall Jacksons staff, collaborated on maps with Jedediah Hotchkiss, and worked alongside such prominent Confederate leaders as Joe Johnston, Richard H.

In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the character of the South, and even its persistence as a distinct region, was an open question.

Drinking yerba mate is a daily, communal ritual that has brought together South Americans for some five centuries.

Established by the Army Air Force in 1943, the Womens Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program opened to civilian women with a pilots license who could afford to pay for their own transportation, training, and uniforms.

Established by the Army Air Force in 1943, the Womens Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program opened to civilian women with a pilots license who could afford to pay for their own transportation, training, and uniforms.

At the turn of the twentieth century, good highways eluded most Americans and nearly all southerners.

Throughout the eighteenth century, independent Indigenous people from the borderlands of the Philippines visited the centers of Spanish colonial rule in the archipelago.

Nearly two-thirds of the Civil Wars approximately 750,000 fatalities were caused by disease a staggering fact for which the American medical profession was profoundly unprepared.

In 1950 the Soviet Union and the Peoples Republic of China signed a Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance to foster cultural and technological cooperation between the Soviet bloc and the PRC.

Drinking yerba mate is a daily, communal ritual that has brought together South Americans for some five centuries.

Throughout the eighteenth century, independent Indigenous people from the borderlands of the Philippines visited the centers of Spanish colonial rule in the archipelago.

From the earliest moments of European contact, Native Americans have played a pivotal role in the Atlantic experience, yet they often have been relegated to the margins of the regions historical record.

Are you considered a dingbatter, or outsider, when you visit the Outer Banks?

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Few issues created greater consensus among Civil Warera northerners than the belief that the secessionists had committed treason.

From the Souths pageant queens to the importance of beauty parlors to African American communities, it is easy to see the ways beauty is enmeshed in southern culture.

Incorporating archeology, anthropology, cartography, and Indigenous studies into military history, Wayne E.

Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren Lassabe Shepherd positions conservative critiques of, and agendas in, American colleges and universities as an essential dimension of a broader conversation of conservative backlash against liberal education.

Through the mid-nineteenth century, the US whaling industry helped drive industrialization and urbanization, providing whale oil to lubricate and illuminate the country.

In the 1940s South, it seemed that non-Black Latino people were on the road to whiteness.

Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren Lassabe Shepherd positions conservative critiques of, and agendas in, American colleges and universities as an essential dimension of a broader conversation of conservative backlash against liberal education.

Through the mid-nineteenth century, the US whaling industry helped drive industrialization and urbanization, providing whale oil to lubricate and illuminate the country.

In the 1940s South, it seemed that non-Black Latino people were on the road to whiteness.

Incorporating archeology, anthropology, cartography, and Indigenous studies into military history, Wayne E.

Just as World War II transformed the United States into a global military and economic superpower, so too did it forge the gun country America is today.

Daniel Clark demonstrates the dramatic impact unionization made on the lives of textile workers in Henderson, North Carolina, in the decade after World War II.

Southern Cultures Volume 20: Number 1 Summer 2014Table of ContentsFront Porchby Jocelyn R.

Southern Cultures: The Help Special IssueVolume 20: Number 1 Spring 2014Table of ContentsFront Porch,by Harry L.

In this fascinating history of Cold War cartography, Timothy Barney considers maps as central to the articulation of ideological tensions between American national interests and international aspirations.

Alexander von Humboldts Essay über Kuba, der auf Französisch verfasste „Essai politique sur l’île de Cuba“ (1825-1826), beschreibt und vermisst die Insel sehr genau, weshalb der Verfasser in Lateinamerika als „zweiter Kolumbus“ angesehen wurde.

Seit Jahrzehnten fuhren Sozialwissenschaftler und politisch interessierte Zeitgenossen einen Streit um die Typologie des Franco-Regimes in Spanien (1936/1939-1975).

Fort des acquis de l'historiographie sur le negoce des ports europeens de la fin de l'epoque medievale au debut de la periode contemporaine, l'ambition de ce livre est de faire dialoguer l'histoire portuaire et maritime avec l'histoire des femmes et du genre.

For 4 million slaves, emancipation was a liberation and resurrection story of biblical proportion, both the clearest example of Gods intervention in human history and a sign of the end of days.

Le Belge Edouard Empain obtient en 1898 la concession du Metro de Paris, qu'il construit et exploite.

In the years just before the Civil War, during the most intensive phase of American slave-trade suppression, the U.

The History of the SlavsFrom the forests and steppes of Eastern Europe to the rise of powerful medieval kingdoms, discover the remarkable story of the Slavic peoples.

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CHALON-SUR-SAÔNE — Two Thousand Years of History Along the WaterDiscover Chalon-sur-Saône from a different perspective.

This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of the military welfare history ‘perspective,’ a vital yet often overlooked aspect of welfare studies.

Part of a series filled with "e;gratifying detail"e; about the ancestry of the first US President, this volume contains the tenth-generation descendants.

Part of a series filled with "e;gratifying detail"e; about the ancestry of the first US President, this volume contains the tenth-generation descendants.

Le Belge Edouard Empain obtient en 1898 la concession du Metro de Paris, qu'il construit et exploite.

Southern Cultures: The Help Special IssueVolume 20: Number 1 Spring 2014Table of ContentsFront Porch,by Harry L.

Southern Cultures Volume 20: Number 1 Summer 2014Table of ContentsFront Porchby Jocelyn R.

The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party (PNPR) understood that to successfully establish an independent nation it needed to generate solidarity across the Americas with its struggle against US colonial rule.

This is the fourth volume of Dr.

Journal of the Indian Wars, or JIW was a quarterly publication on the study of the American Indian Wars.