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One of a small group of feminist pioneers in the historical profession, Estelle B Freedman teaches and writes about women's history with a passion informed by her feminist values. This book brings together eleven essays that document the evolving relationship between academic feminism and political feminism as Freedman has studied and lived it.

Offering an analysis of Cuban literature inside and outside the country's borders, this book looks at the work of three important contemporary Cuban authors: Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005) and Antonio Benitez-Rojo (1931-2005), who left Cuba, and Leonardo Padura Fuentes (b. 1955), who still lives and writes in Cuba.

In the world of the evangelical romance novel, sex and desire are mitigated by an omnipresent third party, the divine. This book states that women's interpretations demonstrate the constant negotiations that characterize evangelical living. It shows the aesthetic sensibility to help alter conventional understandings, both secular and religious.

Aims to dispel the common notion that American women became activists in the fight against female cancer only after the 1970s. This book offers an examination of films, publications, health fairs, and archival materials and traces women's cancer education campaigns back to the early twentieth century.

Employing church records, newspapers, family letters, mementos, and oral histories, the author reconstructs the history of several Mexican American parishes in Houston. He demonstrates how Mexican Americans' religious faith helped to mold and preserve their identity, structured family and community relationships as well as institutions.

After a promising start as a prosperous and liberal democratic nation at the end of the nineteenth century, Argentina descended into instability and crisis. This book demonstrates that Argentina's turn of fortune was the ironic consequence of schemes to ""civilize"" the nation in the name of progressivism, health, science, and public order.

Over several centuries, Venice fashioned and refined a portrait of itself that responded to historical circumstance, broadcasting itself as the ideal state whose ruling patriciate were devoted to the commonweal. This text explores the myth, imagery and it's effect on the civic imagination.

Traces the events leading to war in North Carolina and follows all the campaigns and battles in which the North Carolina Continentals took part.

Combining intellectual and social history, this book explores the processes by which people in the Dominican Republic began to hammer out a common sense of purpose and a modern national identity at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries.

The essential handbook for successful small newspapers.

Explores the impact of the African American freedom struggle on small communities in general, and questions common assumptions that are based on the national movement. This book analyzes the political and economic issues in the postmovement period, and the impact of the movement and the resilience of white supremacy.

National identity in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Focusing on the southeastern coastal region of Guyana, one of Puerto Rico's three leading centers of sugarcane agriculture, this book examines the transition from slavery and slave labor to freedom and free labor, after the 1873 abolition of slavery in colonial Puerto Rico.

The extraordinary wreck of a ship, a missing crew, a message in a bottle, the lost captain's determined daughter - these are all elements of a great sea yarn. The fate of the Carroll A. Deering has remained one of the mysteries of maritime history. Simpson's chronicle keeps the story alive, a memorial to the ghost ship and its lost crew.

A counter-narrative to white historical memory in the South.

In 1846 - two years before the Seneca Falls convention that launched the movement for women's rights in the US - six women in upstate New York petitioned their state's constitutional convention, demanding ""equal, and civil and political rights with men"". Who were these women, and does their story change the story of women's rights?

James Smethurst examines the formation of the Black Arts Movement and demonstrates how it influenced the production and reception of literature and art in the US. The Movement, he argues, changed American attitudes to the relationship between popular culture and ""high"" art and transformed public funding for the arts.

Sharon E. Wood focuses on Davenport, Iowa, to explore the lives of working women and the prostitutes who shared their neighborhoods. She offers portraits of individual girls and women - both prostitutes and ""respectable"" white workers - seeking to reshape their city and expand women's opportunities.

Stephanie E. Yuhl looks back to the period between 1920 and 1940, when local leaders developed Charleston's trademark image as ""America's Most Historic City."" Yuhl posits a larger critique about the use of heritage and demonstrates how something as intangible as the recalled past can be transformed into real political, economic, and social power.

The NAACP's fight against segregated education - the first public interest litigation campaign - culminated in the 1954 Brown decision. While touching on the general social, political, and economic climate in which the NAACP acted, Mark V. Tushnet emphasizes the internal workings of the organization as revealed in its own documents.

A study of the exiled Cuban writers from the 19th century known as los filibusteros who created a body of literature demanding independence from Spain and alliance with or annexation to the US. The transnational culture of writers went hand in hand with economic flow between the countries and was fuelled by belief in a US promise of freedom.

This book locates the roots of the 1996 welfare reform many decades in the past, arguing that women, work, and welfare were intertwined concerns of the liberal welfare state beginning just after World War II. It examines the reform of Aid to Dependent Children (ADC) and reconstructs the ideology, implementation, and consequences of rehabilitation.

This book situates North Carolina's reproductive politics in a national and global context. It demonstrates how each method for limiting unwanted pregnancies had the potential both to expand and to limit women's reproductive choices. Schoen's study allows deeper understandings of the modern welfare state and the lives of women.

Those who work in bioethics and the medical humanities come from many different backgrounds: health care, philosophy, law, social sciences, religious studies, and more. The work they do also varies widely. Writing as a participant in this developing field, Judith Andre offers a model to unify its diversity.

The San Antonio Missions National Historical Park is one of hundreds of religious places in America and around the world where tourists have become a familiar presence. Thomas S. Bremer explores the intersection of tourism and commerce with religion in America, using the missions and other San Antonio sites as prime examples.

America's notorious ""filibusters"" weretthe adventurers who organized or participated in private military attacks on nations with which the United States was formally at peace. Condemned abroad as pirates, the filibusters were often celebrated at home as heroes who epitomized the spirit of Manifest Destiny.

Originally published in 1967, Gerda Lerner's biography of Sarah and Angelina Grimke explores the lives and ideas of the only southern women to become antislavery agents in the North and pioneers for women's rights. This revised and expanded edition includes two new primary documents and an additional essay by Lerner.

Franny Nudelman analyzes the idealization of mass death and explores ways of depicting the violence of war. Considering martyred soldiers in relation to suffering slaves, she argues that responses to wartime death cannot be fully understood without attention to the brutality directed against African Americans during the antebellum era.

Jonathan Daniel Wells contests the popular idea that the Old South was a region of essentially two classes (planters and slaves) until after the Civil War. He argues that, in fact, the region had a burgeoning white middle class that had a profound impact on southern culture, the debate over slavery, and the coming of the Civil War.

Taking our understanding of political antislavery into largely unexplored terrain, Jonathan H. Earle counters conventional wisdom and standard historical interpretations that view the ascendance of free-soil ideas within the antislavery movement as an explicit retreat from the goals of emancipation or even as an essentially proslavery ideology.