History

This sweeping study surveys nearly a century of diverse American views on the relationship between the United States and the Canadian provinces, filling out a neglected chapter in the history of aggressive U.

In this book, Lindley S.

Americans wrote fiercely during the Civil War.

Since its publication in 1944, many Americans have described Gunnar Myrdals An American Dilemma as a defining text on U.

The political transformation that took place at the end of the Roman Republic was a particularly rich area for analysis by the eras historians.

The phrase dude food likely brings to mind a range of images: burgers stacked impossibly high with an assortment of toppings that were themselves once considered a meal; crazed sports fans demolishing plates of radioactively hot wings; barbecued or bacon-wrapped .

Winning the Third World examines afresh the intense and enduring rivalry between the United States and China during the Cold War.

As tourists increasingly moved across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a surprising number of communities looked to capitalize on the histories of Native American people to create tourist attractions.

Bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines to assess the use and meaning of language in the South, a region rich in dialects and variants, this comprehensive edited collection reflects the cutting-edge research presented at the fourth decennial meeting of Language Variety in the South in 2014.

From 1950 to 1980, activists in the black freedom and womens liberation movements mounted significant campaigns in response to the injustices of rape.

Asking why many American intellectuals have had such difficulty accepting wholeheartedly the cultural dimensions of democracy, Robert Dawidoff examines their alienation and ambivalence, a tradition of detachment he identifies as Tocquevillian.

For many, the struggle over civil rights was not just about lunch counters, waiting rooms, or even access to the vote; it was also aboutChristian theology.

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During World War II, unprecedented employment avenues opened up for women and minorities in U.

Spanning three hundred years and the colonial regimes of Spain, Mexico, and the United States, Maurice S.

In the early 1960s, thousands of Black activists used nonviolent direct action to challenge segregation at lunch counters, movie theaters, skating rinks, public pools, and churches across the United States, battling for, and winning, social change.

This classic book tells the remarkable story of Robert F.

The global doubling of human life expectancy between 1850 and 1950 is arguably one of the most consequential developments in human history, undergirding massive improvements in human life and lifestyles.

Faint traces of Indigenous people and their histories abound in American media, memory, and myths.

With emancipation, a long battle for equal citizenship began.

Anne M.

The abolition of Russian serfdom in 1861 and American slavery in 1865 transformed both nations as Russian peasants and African Americans gained new rights as subjects and citizens.

The Welsh Not was a wooden token given to children caught speaking Welsh in nineteenth-century schools.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Mittelalter, Frühe Neuzeit, Note: 2,3, Technische Universität Dresden (Institut für Geschichte), Veranstaltung: Seminar: Der Bundschuh – bäuerliche Erhebung um 1500, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Knapp zehn Jahre nach den Vorfällen in Untergrombach bleib auch der Breisgau nicht länger von den Unruhen des Gemeinen Mannes verschont.

Jones studies the crisis in Anglo-American relations during the Civil War and its impact on the Souths attempt to win foreign support during the crucial years of 1861 and 1862.

In this first history of Arab American activism in the 1960s, Pamela Pennock brings to the forefront one of the most overlooked minority groups in the history of American social movements.

Robert Krick untangles the myriad accounts by participants who fought the battle on both sides, and he offers an illuminating portrait of the Confederate general commanding his troops under the extraordinary pressures of combat.

During the half century preceding widespread school integration, black North Carolinians engaged in a dramatic struggle for equal educational opportunity as segregated schooling flourished.

Over the past decade, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Chile have been buffeted by intensive transformations.

Personal reinvention is a core part of the human condition.

Studying the changing strategies used by the nineteenth-century southern leaders to justify their direction of the Souths economy and politics, Shore shows how leaders before, during, and after the Civil War attempted to set standards of success in southern society and to clarify the relations between those standards and national prosperity.

During the half century after 1650 that saw the gradual imposition of a slave society in Englands North American colonies, poor white settlers in the Chesapeake sought a republic of equals.

This Atlantic world history centers on the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto (c.

Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britains largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order.

From 1896 to 1924, motivated by fears of an irresistible wave of Asian migration and the possibility that whites might be ousted from their position of global domination, British colonists and white Americans instituted stringent legislative controls on Chinese, Japanese, and South Asian immigration.

Much has been written about place and Civil War memory, but how do we personally remember and commemorate this part of our collective past?

On the outskirts of Havana lies Mazorra, an asylum known to and at times feared by ordinary Cubans for over a century.

The color line, once all too solid in southern public life, still exists in the study of southern history.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Europa, Note: 1,0, Technische Universitat Dresden (Alte Geschichte), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Seminararbeit untersucht den Einfluss der Ideologie, Zielsetzungen und Verhaltensweisen der Gegner Caesars auf den Handlungsspielraum von Pompeius vor und wahrend des romischen Burgerkriegs 49 vor Christus.

El Salvadors civil war began in 1980 and ended twelve bloody years later.

Now thoroughly updated and revisedwith a new chapter on the Dreamer movement and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA)this book offers North Carolinians a better understanding of their Latino neighbors, illuminating rather than enflaming debates on immigration.

From the southern influence on nineteenth-century New York to the musical legacy of late-twentieth-century Athens, Georgia, to the cutting-edge cuisines of twenty-first-century Asheville, North Carolina, the bohemian South has long contested traditional views of the region.

Every porn scene is a record of people at work.

The story of religion in America is one of unparalleled diversity and protection of the religious rights of individuals.

In the Jim Crow South, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and, later, Vietnamese and Indian Americans faced obstacles similar to those experienced by African Americans in their fight for civil and human rights.

Paramahansa Yogananda (18931952), a Hindu missionary to the United States, wrote one of the worlds most highly acclaimed spiritual classics, Autobiography of a Yogi, which was first published in 1946 and continues to be one of the best-selling spiritual philosophy titles of all time.

This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers a timely, authoritative, and interdisciplinary exploration of issues related to social class in the South from the colonial era to the present.

In this affecting and innovative global historystarting with the European children who fled the perils of World War II and ending with the Central American children who arrive every day at the U.

William L.

In the late nineteenth century, Italians and Eastern European Jews joined millions of migrants around the globe who left their countries to take advantage of the demand for unskilled labor in rapidly industrializing nations, including the United States.