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The US has declined to approve most human rights treaties, despite widespread support for such treaties among other Western democracies.

For eight days in March 1970, over 200,000 postal workers staged an illegal “wildcat” strike — the largest in United States history — for better wages and working conditions.

As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincolns proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 1865.

In 2012, Chicagos school year began with the citys first teachers' strike in a quarter century and ended with the largest mass closure of public schools in U.

The history of race in North America is still often conceived of in black and white terms.

At first glance, Jessica Ingrams landscape photographs could have been made nearly anywhere in the American South: a fenced-in backyard, a dirt road lined by overgrowth, a field grooved with muddy tire prints.

Latin Americas Indigenous writers have long labored under the limits of colonialism, but in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, they have constructed a literary corpus that moves them beyond those parameters.

By studying the funeral orations of Renaissance Italy, McManamon analyzes Italian humanism as a characteristic phase in Western rhetorical culture.

Tracing the history of intercultural struggle and cooperation in the citrus belt of Greater Los Angeles, Matt Garcia explores the social and cultural forces that helped make the city the expansive and diverse metropolis that it is today.

Mexico today is one of the most dangerous places in the world to report the news, and Mexicans have taken to the street to defend freedom of expression.

In the late nineteenth century, scientists began allying themselves with Americas corporate, political, and military elites.

Latin America and the Global Cold War analyzes more than a dozen of Latin Americas forgotten encounters with Africa, Asia, and the Communist world, and by placing the region in meaningful dialogue with the wider Global South, this volume produces the first truly global history of contemporary Latin America.

What we eat, where it is from, and how it is produced are vital questions in todays America.

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Now in English for the first time, Keila Grinbergs compelling study of the nineteenth-century jurist Antonio Pereira Rebouas (17981880) traces the life of an Afro-Brazilian intellectual who rose from a humble background to play a key and conflicted role as Brazilians struggled to define citizenship and understand racial politics.

Through a reexamination of the earliest struggles against Jim Crow, Blair Kelley exposes the fullness of African American efforts to resist the passage of segregation laws dividing trains and streetcars by race in the early Jim Crow era.

Richard McMurry compares the two largest Confederate armies, assessing why Lees Army of Northern Virginia was more successful than the Army of Tennessee.

In this book, Austin Stevenson argues that it is not the 'divinity' of Jesus that causes problems for historians, but his humanity.

In this book, Austin Stevenson argues that it is not the 'divinity' of Jesus that causes problems for historians, but his humanity.

During the Civil War, Union and Confederate politicians, military commanders, everyday soldiers, and civilians claimed their approach to the conflict was civilized, in keeping with centuries of military tradition meant to restrain violence and preserve national honor.

From its 1790 founding until 1974, Washington, D.

The twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history.

In this rich study of Union governors and their role in the Civil War, Stephen D.

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

Offering a broad, up-to-date reference to the long history and cultural legacy of education in the American South, this timely volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture surveys educational developments, practices, institutions, and politics from the colonial era to the present.

White combines an intensive study of medieval law with insights from anthropology, religion, and social history to create a picture of French society in the Middle Ages which is impressive in its breadth and illuminating in its detail.

During the battle of Gettysburg, as Union troops along Cemetery Ridge rebuffed Picketts Charge, they were heard to shout, Give them Fredericksburg!

The Civil War brought many forms of upheaval to America, not only in waking hours but also in the dark of night.

After a cascade of failures left residents of Flint, Michigan, without a reliable and affordable supply of safe drinking water, citizens spent years demanding action from their city and state officials.

This biography of Beatriz Allende (19421977)revolutionary doctor and daughter of Chiles socialist president, Salvador Allendeportrays what it means to live, love, and fight for change.

For millennia, urban centers were pivots of power and trade that ruled and linked rural majorities.

This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers a current and authoritative reference to urbanization in the American South from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, surveying important southern cities individually and examining the various issues that shape patterns of urbanization from a broad regional perspective.

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

When the original Encyclopedia of Southern Culture was published in 1989, the topic of foodways was relatively new as a field of scholarly inquiry.

During the Cold War, U.

Drawing upon a personal collection of more than 300 letters exchanged between her parents and other family members across the U.

In 2011, Jana Mathewss career took a surprising turn.

How does one begin to understand the idea of a distinctive southern way of lifea concept as enduring as it is disputed?

Medical science in antebellum America was organized around a paradox: it presumed African Americans to be less than human yet still human enough to be viable as experimental subjects, as cadavers, and for use in the training of medical students.

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

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Expanding the discussion of religious participation of women in ancient Rome, Celia E.

Summoning everyday Catholic laywomen to the forefront of twentieth-century Catholic history, Mary J.

While a luscious layer cake may exemplify the towering glory of southern baking, like everything about the American South, baking is far more complicated than it seems.

In this concise history of expropriation of land for the common good in Europe and North America from medieval times to 1800, Susan Reynolds contextualizes the history of an important legal doctrine regarding the relationship between government and the institution of private property.

Between 1935 and 1939, the United States government paid out-of-work artists to write, act, and stage theatre as part of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), a New Deal job relief program.

The last days of the Raj bring to mind Gandhi's nonviolence and Nehru's diplomacy.

First published in 1978, The Catholic Subjects of Elizabeth I traces the history of the Catholics who refused to accept the Elizabethan State Church.

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.

Constructing Communities in Vergil's Aeneid: Cultural Memory, Identity, and Ideology presents a new examination of memory, ethnic identity, and politics within the fictional world of this Roman epic, drawing previously unexplored connections between Vergil's characters, settings, and narrative and the political context of the early Roman Empire.