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Demonstrates that southern girls and young women faced a major turning point when the Civil War forced them to assume new roles as independent women. Examining the lives of more than 300 girls and women between ages fifteen and twenty-five, this book traces the socialization of southern white ladies from early adolescence through young adulthood.

Placing the neglected issue of class back into the study and understanding of religion, this work reconsiders the meaning of class in this world. It states that more than a status grounded in material conditions class is also an identity rhetorically and symbolically made and unmade through representations.

This text examines the events of 3rd July 1863: Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg - considered by many to be the ""climax of the climax"" of the American Civil War. The author explores how and why it endures so strongly in the American imagination as the result of the amalgamation of history and memory.

Rich Indians: Native People and the Problem of Wealth in American History

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution

"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."

In the late sixteenth century, the English started expanding westward, establishing control over parts of neighbouring Ireland as well as exploring and later colonising distant North America. Audrey Horning deftly examines the relationship between British colonization efforts in both locales, depicting their close interconnection as fields for colonial experimentation.

Shifting Loyalties: The Union Occupation of Eastern North Carolina

Framing Chief Leschi: Narratives and the Politics of Historical Justice

The most comprehensive quantitative study of the origins of black education in freedom ever undertaken, this definitive book on freedmen's teachers in the South is an outstanding contribution to social history and our understanding of African American education.

Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War

Cooking in Other Women s Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South,1865-1960"

Traces social and environmental changes over four centuries in Pernambuco, Brazil's key northeastern sugar-growing state. Focusing particularly on the period from the end of slavery in 1888 to the late twentieth century, this confronts the day-to-day world of farming - the complex, fraught, and occasionally poetic business of making sugarcane grow.

Offers a bold mapping out of areas of research that should be explored in detail by the medical and social sciences during the coming decades. It is based on the belief that the extraordinary medical progress of the first half of the twentieth century, which proceeded largely from the laboratory and clinic, can be continued only if the medical sciences embrace the bio-social field of research.

This text charts the people's movement to ban strip mining in Appalachia, tracing popular opposition to the industry from its inception through the growth of a militant movement engaging in acts of sabotage. It highlights the role of farmers and working people in this movement.

John Brown Still Lives!: America s Long Reckoning with Violence, Equality, and Change"

William Friday: Power, Purpose, and American Higher Education

Nature's Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia

Between 1840 and 1920, Cuba abolished slavery, fought two wars of independence, and was occupied by the United States before finally becoming an independent republic. Tiffany A. Sippial argues that during this tumultuous era, Cuba's struggle to define itself as a modern nation found focus in the social and sexual anxieties surrounding prostitution and its regulation.

Making Freedom: The Underground Railroad and the Politics of Slavery

This original research study of residential treatments of problem adolescents represents one of the few attempts in the field to observe in a systematic fashion the residents' living situation in the institutional setting. An innovative field experiment is developed to contrast the interaction of counsellors and residents as they create three distinctive cottage subcultures.

Revealing the complex and often tense relationships between the Johnson administration and activist groups advocating further social change, the author extends the traditional timeline of the civil rights movement beyond the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World

One of the most intriguing and storied episodes of the Civil War, the 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign has previously been related only from the Confederate point of view. Moving seamlessly between tactical details and analysis of strategic significance, Peter Cozzens presents a balanced, comprehensive account of a campaign that has long been romanticised but little understood.

When James Meredith enrolled as the first African American student at the University of Mississippi in 1962, the resulting riots produced more casualties than any other clash of the civil rights era. Eagles shows that the violence resulted from the university's and the state's long defiance of the civil rights movement and federal law. Eagles also paints a remarkable portrait of Meredith himself.

Tejano Diaspora: Mexican Americanism and Ethnic Politics in Texas and Wisconsin

Nuclear Apartheid: The Quest for American Atomic Supremacy from World War II to the Present

Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford