History

[A] well-written, comprehensively researched biography.

Coultrap-McQuin investigates the reasons for womens unprecedented literary professionalism in the nineteenth century, highlighting the experiences of E.

The Oconaluftee Valley, located on the North Carolina side of the Smokies, is home of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians and part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (a UNESCO World Heritage Site).

In telling the story of the North Carolina Railroads independent years (1849-71), Trelease covers all aspects of the company and its development, including its construction and rolling stock; its management, labor force, and labor policies; its passenger and freight operations; and its role in the Civil War.

In this history of childbirth and contraception in Mexico, Nora E.

From nineteenth-century public baths to todays private backyard havens, swimming pools have long been a provocative symbol of American life.

France is often held up as a bastion of gastronomic refinement and as a model of artisanal agriculture and husbandry.

Throughout the Civil War, soldiers and civilians on both sides of the conflict saw the hand of God in the terrible events of the day, but the standard narratives of the period pay scant attention to religion.

Born into a distinguished military family, Fitz John Porter (18221901) was educated at West Point and breveted for bravery in the war with Mexico.

The stereotype of the gold digger has had a fascinating trajectory in twentieth-century America, from tales of greedy flapper-era chorus girls to tabloid coverage of Anna Nicole Smith and her octogenarian tycoon husband.

From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory.

Natuurlijk staat het Christendom voor vrede, maar wat doe je als paus in de Koude Oorlog, waarin grootmachten elkaar met kernwapens bedreigen?

Stepping back from the immediate controversy surrounding the merits and shortcomings of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners, this edited volume intervenes in the continuing discussion by exploring aspects of the public's reception to Goldhagen's book--what the authors call the "e;Goldhagen Effect.

In this illuminating study, Steven E.

As protest movements took to the streets during the 1960s and 1970s, a group of lawyers joined forces with Americas most confrontational activists.

Many accounts of the secession crisis overlook the sharp political conflict that took place in the Border South states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri.

Roell uses company records and the popular press to chronicle the piano industry through changing values, business strategies, economic conditions, and technology.

How do people in the African diaspora practice Islam?

The Emancipation Proclamation, widely remembered as the heroic act that ended slavery, in fact freed slaves only in states in the rebellious South.

In the spring of 1861, Richmond, Virginia, suddenly became the capital city, military headquarters, and industrial engine of a new nation fighting for its existence.

This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture reflects the dramatic increase in research on the topic of gender over the past thirty years, revealing that even the most familiar subjects take on new significance when viewed through the lens of gender.

On an August night in 1893, the deadliest hurricane in South Carolina history struck the Lowcountry, killing thousandsalmost all African American.

The racial ideology of colorblindness has a long history.

Stepping back from the immediate controversy surrounding the merits and shortcomings of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners, this edited volume intervenes in the continuing discussion by exploring aspects of the public's reception to Goldhagen's book--what the authors call the "e;Goldhagen Effect.

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.

During the seventeen-year Pinochet dictatorship, more than three thousand Chileans were murdered or disappeared without a trace.

The Primeiro Comando do Capital (PCC) is a So Paulo prison gang that since the 1990s has expanded into the most powerful criminal network in Brazil.

The place of womens rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, and scholars.

American Civil Wars takes readers beyond the battlefields and sectional divides of the U.

Loving finds in the lives and works of the two writers a symbiosis of spirit that transcends the question of literary influence.

As the sectional crisis gripped the United States, the rancor increasingly spread to the halls of Congress.

In this study of racial passing literature, Julia S.

Hemispheric foreign policy has waxed and waned since the Mexican War, and the Cold War presented both extraordinary promises and dangerous threats to U.

Over twenty years after its initial publication, Annelise Orlecks Common Sense and a Little Fire continues to resonate with its harrowing story of activism, labor, and womens history.

In this ethnography of Navajo (Din) popular music culture, Kristina M.

Many African Americans of the Civil War era felt a personal connection to Abraham Lincoln.

Across the borderlands of the early American northeast, New England, New France, and Native nations deployed women with surprising frequency to the front lines of wars that determined control of North America.

Positioned at the crossroads of the maritime routes linking the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, the Yemeni port of Aden grew to be one of the medieval worlds greatest commercial hubs.

In this engaging and nuanced political history of Northern communities in the Civil War era, Adam I.

The civil rights and black power movements expanded popular awareness of the history and culture of African Americans.

When the United States entered World War II, Italian nationals living in this country were declared enemy aliens and faced with legal restrictions.

First published in 1926, A Note-Book of European History chronicles five centuries of European development.

For half a century the Soviet economy wasinefficientbut stable.

In late nineteenth-century Boston, battles over black party loyalty were fights over the place of African Americans in the postCivil War nation.

The Maryland campaign of September 1862 ranks among the most important military operations of the American Civil War.

To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era.

Evangelical Protestant groups have dominated religious life in the South since the early nineteenth century.

One of the most important monuments of Imperial Rome and at the same time one of the most poorly understood, the Column of Marcus Aurelius has long stood in the shadow of the Column of Trajan.

Historians of the Civil War often speak of wars within a warthe military fight, wartime struggles on the home front, and the political and moral battle to preserve the Union and end slavery.

The 1954 Brown v.