History

The story of the Santee is, in fact, the story of a major part of the Carolinas east of the Appalachians, for the river drains an immense area of both states from the mountains to the ocean.

Using recently declassified documents, Messer traces Byrness performance from the Yalta Conference through the postwar dealings with the Soviet Union.

This book, written from the authors personal knowledge of the district, is a picture of the fabulous and violent past of Pennsylvanias famed coke region and of its uncertain present.

This vigorous and concise history combines clarity of approach with keen insights on the patterns of South Carolina politics, agriculture, industry, education, transportation, and race relations.

In their own picturesque speech, an older generation of men and women in North Carolina paint a vivid image of home and family life in the southern Appalachian mountains around the turn of the century.

Jos Mart, great Cuban patriot, wrote Spanish articles on the United States during the eighties.

In the simple unpretentious dignity of everyday speech, elderly Tar Heels share their fascinating and touching stories of North Carolinas past, a time when activities and cares were closely associated with extracting a living from the soil.

This is a carefully researched and completely rewritten version of Adelaide Friess 1949 history that traced the Forsyth story from its Moravian beginnings through the joining of Winston and Salem and concluded with a forward look to Wake Forest College as a key to future cultural growth.

Conner explains the background, organization, and workings of the National War Labor Board, created by President Wilson in April 1918.

In 1950 the Soviet Union and the Peoples Republic of China signed a Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance to foster cultural and technological cooperation between the Soviet bloc and the PRC.

Few Americans triumphed more gallantly over odds, wore honors more gracefully, or were so honestly mourned after death than Sir Archie, forefather of such great horses as Man O'War, Gallant Fox, War Admiral, and Native Dancer.

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Liberia was founded by the American Colonization Society (ACS) in the 1820s as an African refuge for free blacks and liberated American slaves.

Highlighting the dynamic, pluralistic nature of Islamic civilization, Sufia M.

Jo Ann Argersingers innovative analysis of the New Deal years in Baltimore establishes the significance of citizen participation and community organization in shaping the welfare programs of the Great Depression.

Celebrated as new consumers and condemned for their growing delinquencies, teenage girls emerged as one of the most visible segments of American society during and after World War II.

The autobiographies of former slaves contributed powerfully to the abolitionist movement in the United States, fanning national even international indignation against the evils of slavery.

By focusing on Chicagos first generation of activist professors, Diner shows how modern public policy evolved.

Singing John Browns Body as they marched to war, Union soldiers sought to steel themselves in the face of impending death.

This book explores how women dissidents in the Soviet Union faced punishments equal to men in psychiatric hospitals, prisons, labour camps and exile, yet their political activism, imprisonment and acts of resistance remain largely overlooked in literature.

Volume 2, Ornithology Abroad, focusses on ornithological activity beyond Britain.

Rural women comprised the largest part of the adult population of Texas until 1940 and in the American South until 1960.

First published in 1974, The Rise of the Schooled Society examines the historical developments which made the argument for 'de-schooling'-assertion that formal institutional education has outgrown its usefulness and has become an obstacle to social reform-plausible.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Weltgeschichte - Frühgeschichte, Antike, Note: 2,3, Universität Osnabrück (Geisteswissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Herrschaft im Imperium Romanum, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Arbeit werden die Etappen auf dem Weg Vespasians zum Princeps und zur Begründung der neuen flavischen Dynastie aufgezeigt.

In this analysis of the years of greatest American friendship with the Soviet Union, Levering comes to two conclusions.

The self-made man is a familiar figure in nineteenth-century American history.

Volume 1, Ornithology at Home, includes readings from the prespective of ornithology in Britain.

This is an intensive examination of the financial and political considerations that shaped North Carolinas public financial policy during the confederation.

This title examines the Karbi Youth Festival as a platform for cultural revival and preservation of indigenous identity in Northeast India.

Using new archival sources including previously secret documents of the East German secret police and Communist Party M.

Between 1932 and 1972, approximately six hundred African American men in Alabama served as unwitting guinea pigs in what is now considered one of the worst examples of arrogance, racism, and duplicity in American medical research the Tuskegee syphilis study.

When slavery was abolished in 1888, Sao Paulo, Brazil, subsidized the immigration of workers from southern Europe and Japan.

The Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade was one of North Carolinas best-known and most successful units during the Civil War.

For more than fifty years, Hoover has been viewed as a lily-white racist who attempted to revitalize Republicanism in the South by driving blacks from positions of leadership at all party levels.

In the summer of 1861, Americans were preoccupied by the question of which states would join the secession movement and which would remain loyal to the Union.

During the westward expansion of America, white middle-class ideals of home and domestic work were used to measure differences between white and Native American women.

In a pathbreaking new assessment of the shaping of black male identity in the early twentieth century, Martin Summers explores how middle-class African American and African Caribbean immigrant men constructed a gendered sense of self through organizational life, work, leisure, and cultural production.

In 1945, six African American families from St.

In 1984 Jesse Helms, television-commentator-turned-politician and high priest of the New Right in the U.

Focusing on portrayals of Mussolinis Italy, Hitlers Germany, and Stalins Russia in U.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Mittelalter, Frühe Neuzeit, Note: 1,15, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Lehrstuhl für Mittelalterliche Geschichte), Veranstaltung: Kaiser Friedrich II.

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2025 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Europa Nachkriegszeit, Note: 1,7, Universitat Bern (Historisches Seminar), Veranstaltung: Nachkriegsgeschichte, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Geschichte des Trinkgeldes geht bis auf die Romerzeit zuruck.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Weltgeschichte - Frühgeschichte, Antike, Note: 1,0, Universität Münster (Institut für Alte und Ältere Geschichte), Veranstaltung: Die archaische Tyrannis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Frage, ob Solon, der berühmte Gesetzgeber Athens, als Tyrann betrachtet werden kann.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Weltgeschichte - Frühgeschichte, Antike, Note: 1,7, Universität Osnabrück (Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Christianus sum.

One of Latin Americas leading sociologists, Manuel Antonio Garretn explores contemporary challenges to democratization in Latin America in this work originally published in Spanish in 1995.

With this book, Nancy Isenberg illuminates the origins of the womens rights movement.

Never did so large a proportion of the American population leave home for an extended period and produce such a detailed record of its experiences in the form of correspondence, diaries, and other papers as during the Civil War.

A comprehensive analysis of American foreign policy and Mussolinis Italy.

Incorporating archeology, anthropology, cartography, and Indigenous studies into military history, Wayne E.

In this theoretically rich work, Mason Kamana Allred unearths the ways Mormons have employed a wide range of technologies to translate events, beliefs, anxieties, and hopes into reproducible experiences that contribute to the growth of their religious systems of meaning.