More than a generation after the rise of womens history alongside the feminist movement, it is still difficult, observes Catherine Brekus, to locate women in histories of American religion.
For at least two centuries, the Souths economy, politics, religion, race relations, fiction, music, foodways and more have figured prominently in nearly all facets of American life.
Challenging the conventional interpretation of Mary of Guise as the defender of Catholicism whose regime climaxed with the Reformation Rebellion, Pamela Ritchie shows that Mary was, on the contrary, a shrewd and effective politique, whose own dynastic interests and those of her daughter took precedence over her personal and religious convictions.
The women of the French salons presents an exploration of the intellectual spaces shaped and sustained through gatherings where conversation, creativity, and cultural exchange flourished.
The rise of the Dutch Republic Volume 2 provides an expansive historical portrait of how the Netherlands shifted from a collection of divided provinces under severe external control into a unified and thriving republic.
Part cookbook, part culinary history, part family history, this book is an engaging and enlightening glimpse into the household of a well-to-do, mid-nineteenth-century Virginia family.
Two notorious antebellum New York murder cases a prostitute slashed in an elegant brothel and a tradesman bludgeoned by the brother of inventor Samuel Colt set off journalistic scrambles over the meanings of truth, objectivity, and the duty of the press that reverberate to this day.
Revising the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs a world in which Indians were the dominant power and Europeans were the ones forced to accommodate, resist, and persevere.
The Anglo-Saxon chronicle stands as a foundational record of early English history, tracing the transformation of Britain from scattered tribal settlements to the rise of organized Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
Examining the social and intellectual collision of the Americanreform tradition with immigrant Marxism during the Reconstructionera, Timothy Messer-Kruse charts the rise and fall of theInternational Workingmans Association (IWA), the firstinternational socialist organization.
The Search for Salvation is an innovative and interdisciplinary study of lay faith in Scotland in the later Milddle Ages, examining both the religious ideas and practices of the people, and the ways in which these were shaped by images in literature, art, and church writings.
The growing globalization of world business, culture and communicationand Japan's increasingly important role as a leader in that worldmakes understanding Japanese culture critical for business people, diplomats, students, educators and anyone else with an interest in Japan.
In 1964 a small group of African American men in Jonesboro, Louisiana, defied the nonviolence policy of the mainstream civil rights movement and formed an armed self-defense organization the Deacons for Defense and Justice to protect movement workers from vigilante and police violence.
From President Cleveland's alleged love child to the UFO highway, Idaho Myths and Legends of makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of the Gem State's most fascinating and compelling stories.
The rise of the Dutch Republic Volume 7 delivers an expansive account of how the Netherlands rose from a fractured territory under harsh outside authority to a unified and flourishing republic.
Before 1850, all legal executions in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands; the last legal public execution was in 1936.
Just four months after Richard Nixons resignation, New York Times reporter Seymour Hersh unearthed a new case of government abuse of power: the CIA had launched a domestic spying program of Orwellian proportions against American dissidents during the Vietnam War.
David I was never expected to become king, but on succeeding to the Scottish throne in 1124 he quickly demonstrated that he had the skills, ruthlessness and ambition to become one of the kingdom's greatest rulers.
In this study of sex, gender, sexual violence, and power along the border, Bernadine Marie Hernndez brings to light under-heard stories of women who lived in a critical era of American history.
The rise of the Dutch Republic Volume 18 focuses on a turning point in the struggle that reshaped the Netherlands as communities moved from scattered defiance to organized resistance against foreign domination.
Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, and James Madison, Father of the Constitution, were two of the most important Founders of the United States as well as the closest of political allies.
Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664 offers a detailed look at early encounters, territorial ambitions, and the complex dynamics that shaped the region later known as New York.
Part cookbook, part culinary history, part family history, this book is an engaging and enlightening glimpse into the household of a well-to-do, mid-nineteenth-century Virginia family.
In this study of sex, gender, sexual violence, and power along the border, Bernadine Marie Hernndez brings to light under-heard stories of women who lived in a critical era of American history.
Two notorious antebellum New York murder cases a prostitute slashed in an elegant brothel and a tradesman bludgeoned by the brother of inventor Samuel Colt set off journalistic scrambles over the meanings of truth, objectivity, and the duty of the press that reverberate to this day.
When a Civil War substitute broker told business associates that Men is cheep here to Day, he exposed an unsettling contradiction at the heart of the Unions war effort.
A tale of one city: The new Birmingham presents a detailed historical account of urban transformation, municipal reform, and social change within a rapidly evolving industrial city.
