History

At the close of the Civil War, it was clear that the military conflict that began in South Carolina and was fought largely east of the Mississippi River had changed the politics, policy, and daily life of the entire nation.

The Civil War thrust Americans onto unfamiliar terrain, as two competing societies mobilized for four years of bloody conflict.

Well before the Jamestown settlers first sighted the Chesapeake Bay or the Mayflower reached the coast of Massachusetts, the first English colony in America was established on Roanoke Island.

For twenty years in the eighteenth century, Georgia the last British colony in what became the United States enjoyed a brief period of free labor, where workers were not enslaved and were paid.

This comparative history of the higher education systems in Poland, East Germany, and the Czech lands reveals an unexpected diversity within East European stalinism.

American evangelicalism has long walked hand in hand with modern consumer capitalism.

The surprise Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979 shocked the international community.

Approximately 9 million soldiers fell into enemy hands from 1914 to 1918, but historians have only recently begun to recognize the prisoner of wars significance to the history of the Great War.

Edwin M.

In 1959, the Dalai Lama fled Lhasa, leaving the Peoples Republic of China with a crisis on its Tibetan frontier.

The Pequot Indian intellectual, author, and itinerant preacher William Apess (17981839) was one the most important voices of the nineteenth century.

Born of encounters between Indigenous women and Euro-American men in the first decades of the nineteenth century, the Plains Metis people occupied contentious geographic and cultural spaces.

In 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available for hire.

Why has the American South - a place with abundant rainfall - become embroiled in intrastate wars over water?

This first comprehensive biography of Jewish American writer and humorist Harry Golden (19031981) author of the 1958 national best-seller Only in America illuminates a remarkable life intertwined with the rise of the civil rights movement, Jewish popular culture, and the sometimes precarious position of Jews in the South and across America during the 1950s.

Fought on July 28, 1864, the Battle of Ezra Church was a dramatic engagement during the Civil Wars Atlanta campaign.

Prior to 1914, Germany dominated the worldwide production of synthetic organic dyes and pharmaceuticals like aspirin.

Freedoms Children is the first comprehensive history of Jamaicas watershed 1938 labor rebellion and its aftermath.

Susan K.

By the 1920s, the sectional reconciliation that had seemed achievable after Reconstruction was foundering, and the South was increasingly perceived and portrayed as impoverished, uneducated, and backward.

In 1855 in the South Puget Sound, war broke out between Washington settlers and Nisqually Indians.

During the second half of the twentieth century, the American military chaplaincy underwent a profound transformation.

Choosing the Jesus Way uncovers the history and religious experiences of the first American Indian converts to Pentecostalism.

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.

This compelling history of what Laura Micheletti Puaca terms technocratic feminism traces contemporary feminist interest in science to the World War II and early Cold War years.

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.

Spanning a thousand years of history and bringing the story to the present through ethnographic fieldwork in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania Rudolph Ware documents the profound significance of Qur'an schools for West African Muslim communities.

When Zandria Robinson returned home to interview African Americans in Memphis, she was often greeted with some version of the caution I hope you know this aint Chicago.

A well-illustrated cultural history of the apparel worn by American Catholics, Sally Dwyer-McNultys Common Threads reveals the transnational origins and homegrown significance of clothing in developing identity, unity, and a sense of respectability for a major religious group that had long struggled for its footing in a Protestant-dominated society often openly hostile to Catholics.

Spanning a thousand years of history and bringing the story to the present through ethnographic fieldwork in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania Rudolph Ware documents the profound significance of Qur'an schools for West African Muslim communities.

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.

When Zandria Robinson returned home to interview African Americans in Memphis, she was often greeted with some version of the caution I hope you know this aint Chicago.

Most scholarship on the mass migrations of African Americans and southern whites during and after the Great Depression treats those migrations as separate phenomena, strictly divided along racial lines.

Most scholarship on the mass migrations of African Americans and southern whites during and after the Great Depression treats those migrations as separate phenomena, strictly divided along racial lines.

For more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and music, earning it the nickname the black Mecca.

When the Supreme Court overturned Louisvilles local desegregation plan in 2007, the people of Jefferson County, Kentucky, faced the question of whether and how to maintain racial diversity in their schools.

In the last three decades of the twentieth century, government cutbacks, stagnating wages, AIDS, and gentrification pushed ever more people into poverty, and hunger reached levels unseen since the Depression.

Entrenched on Florida's Atlantic Coast since the sixteenth century, the Spanish presidio of St.

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During the twentieth century, social democracy in Europe experienced profound ideological changes.

Daniel Ramrezs history of twentieth-century Pentecostalism in the U.

In 1967, Reies Lpez Tijerina led an armed takeover of a New Mexico courthouse in the name of land rights for disenfranchised Spanish-speaking locals.

American evangelicalism has long walked hand in hand with modern consumer capitalism.

Though the Alps may appear to be a peaceful place, the famed mountains once provided the backdrop for a political, environmental, and cultural battle as Germany and Austria struggled to modernize.

Grinding, bloody, and ultimately decisive, the Petersburg Campaign was the Civil Wars longest and among its most complex.

The Civil War thrust Americans onto unfamiliar terrain, as two competing societies mobilized for four years of bloody conflict.

This comparative history of the higher education systems in Poland, East Germany, and the Czech lands reveals an unexpected diversity within East European stalinism.

Examining the history of Soviet museums in the 1920s and 1930s, this book engages with the core problem of interwar museology: adequately representing the historical development of art to create a plausible and coherent version of its evolution.

For military history buffs and aeroplane enthusiasts alike, this fascinating story of the World War II Beaufighter Squadron is a must.

This book responds to a critical geopolitical moment where decolonial thought, praxis, and pedagogy confront urgent questions of resistance in the face of Palestinian genocide and scholasticide, alongside other forms of state-sanctioned colonial violence against Black, Indigenous, immigrant, and displaced peoples worldwide.