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Winner, New Hampshire PBS Award for Literary Excellence 2023Examining the life and career of Harriet Dame, Civil War battlefield nurse, and her major contributions to the Union causeIn June of 1861, 46-year-old Harriet Patience Dame joined the Second New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a matron.

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Worldly Provincialism introduces readers to the intellectual history that drove the emergence of German anthropology.

Stepping into the Past is a collection of structured activities designed for the Western Civ or Introductory European History classroom, designed for all levels of students and institutions.

Ancient literature features many powerful narratives of madness, depression, melancholy, lovesickness, simple boredom, and the effects of such psychological states upon individual sufferers.

Coinage appeared at a moment when it fulfilled an essential need in Greek society and brought with it rationalization and social leveling in some respects, while simultaneously producing new illusions, paradoxes, and new elites.

What does it mean to be a woman who dares to challenge the status quo?

Discover the truth about our immune system and learn how to stay healthy from the world-leading scientist our health experts turn to.

This compact history of the war attempts to separate myth from reality.

For hundreds of years, the Roman people produced laws in popular assemblies attended by tens of thousands of voters to publicly forge resolutions to issues that might otherwise have been unmanageable.

Coinage appeared at a moment when it fulfilled an essential need in Greek society and brought with it rationalization and social leveling in some respects, while simultaneously producing new illusions, paradoxes, and new elites.

Ancient literature features many powerful narratives of madness, depression, melancholy, lovesickness, simple boredom, and the effects of such psychological states upon individual sufferers.

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.

Germans have been one of the most mobile and dispersed populations on earth.

The southern womens reform movement emerged late in the nineteenth century, several decades behind the formation of the northern feminist movement.

"e;Gardens and Neighbors will provide an important building block in the growing body of literature on the ways that Roman law, Roman society, and the economic concerns of the Romans jointly functioned in the real world.

This vividly detailed Civil War history reveals many of the incredible true stories behind the legendary sites of the Gettysburg battlefield.

The secrets of one of history's greatest orators are revealed in "e;one of the most stunningly original works on Abraham Lincoln to appear in years"e; (John Stauffer, professor of English and history, Harvard University).

This vividly detailed Civil War history reveals many of the incredible true stories behind the legendary sites of the Gettysburg battlefield.

Drafted by Thomas Jefferson, the logical force of the Declaration facilitated the survival of a nation.

The secrets of one of history's greatest orators are revealed in "e;one of the most stunningly original works on Abraham Lincoln to appear in years"e; (John Stauffer, professor of English and history, Harvard University).

From the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of Material World, a story that will take you from ancient civilizations, empire and globalisation through to the most influential geopolitical issue of our times.

Much has changed in the lives of children, and in the health care provided to them, over the past century.

The southern womens reform movement emerged late in the nineteenth century, several decades behind the formation of the northern feminist movement.

As new ideas arose during the Enlightenment, many political thinkers published their own versions of popular early modern "e;absolutist"e; texts and transformed them into manuals of political resistance.

"e;At various times, homosexuality has been considered the noblest of loves, a horrible sin, a psychological condition or grounds for torture and execution.

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Louis Austin (18981971) came of age at the nadir of the Jim Crow era and became a transformative leader of the long black freedom struggle in North Carolina.

"e;This is history as it should be written.

Louis Austin (18981971) came of age at the nadir of the Jim Crow era and became a transformative leader of the long black freedom struggle in North Carolina.

Explores the zoomorphic imagination and image-making of Eurasian nomads and their dynamic interactions with neighbouring sedentary empires.

When women were denied a major speaking role at the 1963 March on Washington, Dorothy Height, head of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), organized her own womens conference for the very next day.

"e;Colbert has long been celebrated as Louis XIV's minister of finance, trade, and industry.

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.

Louis Austin (18981971) came of age at the nadir of the Jim Crow era and became a transformative leader of the long black freedom struggle in North Carolina.

'An epic achievement and an honest, heartfelt account' GUARDIANA personal history of war, obsession, love and truth by the Sunday Times-bestselling author of The AdversaryStanding among the mourners gathered to honour H l ne Carr re d Encausse renowned historian of Russia, member of the Acad mie Fran aise, national figure her son, Emmanuel Carr re, wonders who this formidable woman was: to the country, to history and to himself.

"e;Gardens and Neighbors will provide an important building block in the growing body of literature on the ways that Roman law, Roman society, and the economic concerns of the Romans jointly functioned in the real world.

Worldly Provincialism introduces readers to the intellectual history that drove the emergence of German anthropology.

Classes and books on the Holocaust often center on the experiences of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders, but rescuers also occupy a prominent space in Holocaust courses and literature even though incidents of rescue were relatively few and rescuers constituted less than 1 percent of the population in Nazi-occupied Europe.