History

The foreboding Great Dismal Swamp sprawls over 2,000 square miles and spills over parts of Virginia and North Carolina.

In his captivating study of faith and class, John Hayes examines the ways folk religion in the early twentieth century allowed the Souths poor both white and black to listen, borrow, and learn from each other about what it meant to live as Christians in a world of severe struggle.

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

When UNC Press published Stella Gentry Sharpes Tobe in 1939, it was hailed as one of the first childrens books to offer a dignified portrayal of an African American child and his family.

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

The period between 1880 and 1918, at the end of which Jim Crow was firmly established and the Great Migration of African Americans was well under way, was not the nadir for black culture, James Smethurst reveals, but instead a time of profound response from African American intellectuals.

Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club paints a vivid, fascinating portrait of a community deeply grounded in tradition and dynamically engaged in the present.

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 the Shenandoah Valley and Peninsula Campaigns of 1862, Union and Confederate soldiers faced unfamiliar and harsh environmental conditions strange terrain, tainted water, swarms of flies and mosquitoes, interminable rain and snow storms, and oppressive heat which contributed to escalating disease and diminished morale.

Under policies instituted by the Confederacy, white Virginians and North Carolinians surrendered control over portions of their slave populations to state authorities, military officials, and the national government to defend their new nation.

The rural roads that led to our planet-changing global economy ran through the American South.

In Radical Relations, Daniel Winunwe Rivers offers a previously untold story of the American family: the first history of lesbian and gay parents and their children in the United States.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Weltgeschichte - Frühgeschichte, Antike, Note: 1,3, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Alte Geschichte), Veranstaltung: Griechische Orakel, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit untersucht die Opferschau im Kontext des Krieges anhand von Xenophons "Anabasis".

Fergus Millar is one of the most influential contemporary historians of the ancient world.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2025 im Fachbereich Weltgeschichte - Fruhgeschichte, Antike, Note: 1,7, Universitat Leipzig (Alte Geschichte), Veranstaltung: Antike, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Hausarbeit untersucht die Schlacht von Himera aus dem Jahr 480 v.

Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject History - America, grade: 1,0 (A), University of Cologne (History Seminar/Anglo-American History), course: Promoting War: Media and War in American History, language: English, abstract: "e;The Bush Administration achieved a five-month-long commercial for militarism and individual weapon systems.

This collection of thirteen essays, edited by historian W.

After the Civil War, the South was divided into five military districts occupied by Union forces.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Europa, Note: 1,0, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universitat Hannover (History Department), Veranstaltung: Haushalt in der fruhen Neuzeit, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die sozialen, kulturellen und rechtlichen Dimensionen von Behinderung in der Vormoderne am Beispiel der blinden Clara Duffnerin, deren Fall anhand zweier Triberger Gerichtsprotokolle aus den Jahren 1739 und 1740 analysiert wird.

It may be difficult to imagine that a consequential black electoral politics evolved in the United States before the Civil War, for as of 1860, the overwhelming majority of African Americans remained in bondage.

Hank Lacayo Best Labor Themed Book, International Latino Book AwardsBest Book Award, Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice, American Society of CriminologyIn the early twentieth century, the brutality of southern prisons became a national scandal.

How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict?

In 1983, an Ohio radio station called WOXY launched a sonic disruption to both corporate rock and to its conservative home region, programming an omnivorous range of genres and artists while being staunchly committed to local independent art and media.

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject African Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3 (=75%), University of Cape Town (School of Economics / Faculty of Commerce), course: Development Economics, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this paper is to identify the impact of the HIV/AIDS crisis on the South African economy and how this impact affects South Africa's economic growth and therefore its prospects for development.

The dangerous, decades-long arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War begged a fundamental question: how did these superpowers actually plan to survive a nuclear strike?

In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments.

From the Womens Marches to the #MeToo movement, it is clear that feminist activism is still alive and well in the twenty-first century.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Mittelalter, Frühe Neuzeit, Note: 1,3, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Historisches Seminar), Veranstaltung: Seminar Neuere Geschichte: Der Spanische Erbfolgekrieg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende wissenschaftliche Arbeit untersucht die Rolle der indigenen Verbündeten Frankreichs und der neutralen Irokesen in der französischen Diplomatie und Entscheidungsfindung während des Spanischen Erbfolgekriegs in Nordamerika.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Zeitalter Weltkriege, Note: 1.

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Sonstiges, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Zur Weißen Frau.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Sonstiges, Note: 2,0, Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig (Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Aspekte der griechischen Mythologie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Hausarbeit analysiert Euripides’ Tragödie "Die Bakchen" im Hinblick auf die Darstellung des Machtkonflikts zwischen individueller Freiheit und staatlicher Autorität.

In the 1950s, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters empowered poor immigrants who had grown up in the crowded blocks of the central city to move upward and outward to comfortable suburbs.

Pushing the Envelope, a survey history of the American aircraft (now aerospace) manufacturing industry, is the most comprehensive history on the subject ever completed.

In Creating a Confederate Kentucky, Anne E.

Lawrence Reddick (19101995) was among the most notable African American intellectuals of his generation.

This volume considers the interconnection of racial oppression in the U.

This collection of essays profiles a diverse array of North Carolinians, all of whom had a hand in the founding of the state and the United States of America.

The battle of Belmont was the first battle in the western theater of the Civil War and, more importantly, the first battle of the war fought by Ulysses S.

For many African Americans, getting a public sector job has historically been one of the few paths to the financial stability of the middle class, and in New York City, few such jobs were as sought-after as positions in the fire department (FDNY).

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

Military history is an essential component of wartime diplomatic history, Jonathan R.

In an insightful exploration of gender relations during the Civil War, Nina Silber compares broad ideological constructions of masculinity and femininity among Northerners and Southerners.

Over the course of less than a century, the U.

In this media history of the Caribbean, Alejandra Bronfman traces how technology, culture, and politics developed in a region that was wired earlier and more widely than many other parts of the Americas.

Replete with a cast of giants in Islamic thought and philosophy, Ahmad S.

Two decades punctuated by the financial crisis of the Great Recession and the public health crisis of COVID-19 have powerfully reshaped housing in America.

The first scholar to trace the meaning and importance of the idea of political compromise from the founding of the Republic to the onset of the Civil War, Knupfer shows how recurring justifications of sectional compromise reflected common ideas about the way governments were supposed to work.

Interweaving three centuries of transatlantic religious and social history with historical and present-day ethnography, Luis Nicolau Pars traces the formation of Candombl, one of the most influential African-derived religious forms in the African diaspora, with practitioners today centered in Brazil but also living in Europe and elsewhere in the Americas.

Available for the first time in English, The Color of the Third Degree uncovers the still-hidden history of police torture in the Jim Crow South.

Nag Grandma and White Papa is a signal work in Brazilian anthropology and African diaspora studies originally published in Brazil in 1988.