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Illuminating the class issues that shaped the racial uplift movement, this book explores the ideology and policies of the Urban League's activities in New York and Chicago during the first half of the twentieth century.

American literary nationalism is traditionally understood as a cohesive literary tradition developed in the independent United States that emphasized the features of America and consciously differentiated American literature from British literature. This title challenges this assessment.

Vintage US-made cars on the streets of Havana provide a common representation of Cuba. This title blends historical sources, spinning a car-centered history of life on the island. It includes fifty-two historic black-and-white photographs and eight color photographs by contemporary Cuban photographer Adalberto Roque.

When it first appeared in the 1930s, FM radio was a technological marvel, providing better sound and nearly eliminating the static that plagued AM stations. It took another forty years, however, for FM's popularity to surpass that of AM. This book tells the history of FM, from its inception to its dominance of the airwaves.

The meaning of race in the antebellum southern United States was anchored in the racial exclusivity of slavery and full citizenship. The author explains how heated debates over interracial marriage were also attempts by whites to undermine African American men's demands for suffrage and a voice in public affairs.

Fusing labor and environmental history, this work examines work as a central part of Americans' evolving relationship with nature, revealing the unexpected connections between the fight for workers' rights and the rise of the modern environmental movement. It is filled with illuminating vignettes, and provides fresh insights on this topic.

Argues that white evangelicals' ideas about slavery grew directly out of their interactions with black evangelicals. This book draws from church records and slave narratives to illuminate the relationship between whites and blacks within the evangelical fold. It argues that black evangelicals inadvertently shaped the proslavery argument.

Founded as a local college ministry in 1951, Campus Crusade for Christ has become one of the world's largest evangelical organizations, boasting of an annual budget of more than $500 million. This book offers a history of Campus Crusade and its founder, Bill Bright, whose marketing acumen transformed the organization into an evangelical empire.

Examines education in ancient Sparta, covering the period from the sixth century BC to the fourth century AD. Nigel Kennell refutes the popular notion that classical Spartan education was a conservative amalgam of "primitive" customs, and argues instead that later political and cultural movements made the system appear to be more distinctive than it actually had been.

The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, and scholars. This book explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating women into positions of visibility and leadership.

Argues for revitalizing the role of literature in civic education. This book defines civic myths as compelling stories about national origin, membership, and values that are generated by conflicts within the concept of citizenship itself. It provides an analysis of the civic mythology surrounding Abraham Lincoln and the case of Ex parte Milligan.

What are the best fuel foods for soccer players? What training regimen will best prepare young soccer players and improve their resistance to injuries? This comprehensive guide to health and fitness for soccer players offers expert advice for soccer teams at all levels.

Centered on a series of dramatic murders in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Richmond, Virginia, this book uses these stories of crime to explore the evolution of sensationalism in southern culture.

Exploring the mental worlds of the major groups interacting in a borderland setting, this book offers a multiracial intellectual and cultural history of the Tennessee frontier in the Revolutionary and early national periods, leading up to the era of westward expansion and Cherokee removal.

Explores the changing relationship between regulators and practitioners in neocolonial Cuba and Puerto Rico. Examining seven episodes between 1898 and the Cuban Revolution when the public demanded official actions against ""misbelief,"" the author finds that when outbreaks of superstition were debated, matters of citizenship were usually at stake.

Challenging the conventional wisdom that the 1930s were dominated by literary and photographic realism, this book covers experimental works by politically progressive artists. It argues that these artists drew attention to the country's most vulnerable residents by using ""aesthetic of astonishment,"" focused on graphic images of pain and injury.

Describes how diversity and dissent strengthened the black community in Durham. This book describes how black Durham's multiple constituencies experienced a range of social conditions.

Examines struggles over wages to reveal ways in which the wage becomes a critical component in the making of social hierarchies of race, gender, and citizenship. This book addresses the issue of class politics and places the problem of ""interests"" squarely at the center of political economy.

Organized geographically through a series of eighteen half-day and day-long tours in the western part of North Carolina, this book directs curious travelers to the historic sites where Tar Heel authors have lived and worked. It features more than 170 writers, including Sequoyah, Fred Chappell, Charles Frazier, Robert Morgan, and Gail Godwin.

Offering an investigation of Confederate political culture, this title focuses on the assumptions, values, and beliefs that formed the foundation of Confederate political ideology. It shows how southerners attempted to purify the political process and avoid what they saw as the evils of parties and partisanship.

General Richard Stoddert Ewell holds a unique place in the history of the Army of Northern Virginia. For four months, Ewell was Stonewall Jackson's most trusted subordinate. This title examines Ewell's life before and after the Civil War, offering a portrait of one of the South's most important leaders.

On June 19, 1864, the Confederate cruiser Alabama and the USS Kearsarge faced off in the English Channel outside the French port of Cherbourg. About an hour after the Alabama fired the first shot, it began to sink, and its crew was forced to wave the white flag of surrender. This title offers the stories of these two celebrated Civil War warships.

Offering the story of African American self-education, this title examines African Americans' relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil War, and in the first decades of freedom.

Taking an original approach to American literature, this book examines nineteenth-century writing from a different angle: that of deafness, which he shows to have surprising importance in identity formation. It is a useful reading for students of American literature and culture, deaf studies, and disability studies.

Drawing on meteorological research, news reports, first-person accounts, maps, and historical photographs, this book traces the notable hurricanes that have affected Florida, from the early colonial period to the devastating hurricanes of 2004 and 2005 - Charley, Frances, Ivan, Jeanne, Dennis, Katrina, and Wilma.

Examines how debates over slavery in the three decades before the Civil War employed legal language to ""try"" the case for slavery in the court of public opinion via popular print media. This title argues that American literature of the era cannot be fully understood without an appreciation for the slavery debate in the courts and in print.

Demonstrating the historical circumstances that linked agrarianism, racism, and pronatalism, this work shows how reproductive conformity was manufactured, how it was promoted, and why it was coercive. Contributing to scholarship in American history, gender studies, and rural studies, it sheds light on the rhetoric of ""family values.

Assessing American poverty and policy since 1950, this book examines an era that has seen serious discussion about the causes of poverty and unemployment. It demonstrates that most antipoverty approaches are futile without the presence (or creation) of good jobs. It states that a serious public debate is needed about the job situation.

A comprehensive study of African American war literature, this title analyzes fiction, poetry, autobiography, and histories about the major wars waged before the desegregation of the US military in 1948. It argues that the very ambivalence over the use of violence as a political instrument defines African American war writing.

The Church of God in Christ (COGIC), an African American Pentecostal denomination founded in 1896, has become the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States. This book examines the religious and social lives of the women in the COGIC Women's Department from its founding in 1911 through the mid-1960s.