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Standard narratives of Native American history view the nineteenth century in terms of steadily declining Indigenous sovereignty, from removal of southeastern tribes to the 1887 General Allotment Act. In Crooked Paths to Allotment, C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa complicates these narratives, focusing on political moments when viable alternatives to federal assimilation policies arose.

When the US Supreme Court handed down its decision in `Brown v. Board of Education' in 1954, Prince Edward County, Virginia, home to one of the five cases combined by the Court under `Brown', abolished its public school system rather than integrate. Jill Titus situates the crisis in Prince Edward County within the seismic changes brought by `Brown' and Virginia's decision to resist desegregation.

Provides a comprehensive narrative and statistical analysis of many key aspects of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Serving as a companion to Glatthaar's General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse, this book presents Glatthaar's supporting data and major conclusions in extensive and extraordinary detail.

Between 1944 and 1953, a power struggle emerged between New York governor Thomas Dewey and U.S. senator Robert Taft of Ohio that threatened to split the Republican Party. Michael Bowen reveals how this two-man battle for control of the GOP - and the Republican presidential nomination - escalated into a divide of ideology that ultimately determined the party's political identity.

Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas

Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture

Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America

Ducktown Smoke: The Fight over One of the South's Greatest Environmental Disasters

Game, Set, Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women s Sports"

Declarations of Dependence: The Long Reconstruction of Popular Politics in the South, 1861-1908

Way Up North in Louisville: African American Migration in the Urban South, 1930-1970

Offers a groundbreaking account of how Americans of all political and religious persuasions used faith to interpret the course of the civil war. It underscores religion's presence in the everyday lives of Americans north and south struggling to understand the meaning of the conflict, from the tragedy of individual death to victory and defeat in battle and even the ultimate outcome of the war.

Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era

Confederate Minds: The Struggle for Intellectual Independence in the Civil War South

Explores the forces that sparked a dramatic 'prison art renaissance' in the 1970s, shedding light on how incarcerated people produced powerful works of writing, performance, and visual art. These included everything from George Jackson's revolutionary Soledad Brother to Miguel Pinero's acclaimed off-Broadway play and Hollywood film Short Eyes.

Taking an approach to the history of the jury in modern France by investigating the legal, political, sociocultural, and intellectual aspects of jury trial from the Revolution through the twentieth century, this title demonstrates that these juries, through their decisions, helped shape reform of the nation's criminal justice system.

A collection of essays that encompasses Gerda Lerner's theoretical writing and her organizational work in transforming the history profession and in establishing Women's History as a mainstream field.

An examination of Mississippi's politics and policies of postwar racial education. It finds that newly freed slaves made heroic efforts to participate in their own education, but too often the schooling was used to control and redirect the aspirations of the newly freed.

Historians have often glorified 18th century Virginia planters' philosophical debates about the meaning of American liberty. This title explains how North Carolina's first planters struggled to impose a plantation society upon the settlers and how those early small farmers, defending a wide franchise and religious toleration, steadfastly resisted.

Exploring gender relations during the Civil War, this book compares broad ideological constructions of masculinity and femininity among Northerners and Southerners. It finds that rhetoric on both sides connected soldiers' reasons for fighting to the women left at home.

Presents the history of business in America that intertwines dynamics of social and business values. This book examines the enveloping expansion of the market economy, the laggardly use of government to modify or control market forces, the rise of consumerism, and the shifting role of small business.

Tells the story of the Church of England in colonial South Carolina, revealing how the colony's Anglicans negotiated the tensions between the persistence of seventeenth-century religious practice and the rising tide of Enlightenment thought and sentimentality.

The first woman judge in the state of North Carolina and the first woman in the United States to be elected chief justice of a state supreme court, Susie Marshall Sharp (1907-96) broke new ground for women in the legal profession. This title uncovers the story of a brilliant woman who transcended the limits of her times.

In 1925 Mary Breckinridge (1881-1965) founded the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), a public health organization in eastern Kentucky providing nurses on horseback to reach families who otherwise would not receive health care. This book presents a comprehensive biography of a health-care pioneer.

Few Southern elites gave more to the Confederate cause or suffered more in its defeat than General Wade Hampton III of South Carolina. This book reveals Hampton's critical role during Reconstruction as a conservative white leader, governor, US senator, and Redeemer; and his heroic image in the minds of white Southerners.

Offering a comprehensive history of crime and corruption in Cuba, this book challenges the common view that widespread poverty and geographic proximity to the United States were the prime reasons for soaring rates of drug trafficking, smuggling, gambling, and prostitution in the tumultuous decades preceding the Cuban revolution.

Gay men played a prominent role in defining the culture of mid-twentieth-century America. This book offers an analysis of the tension between the nation's dependence on and fear of the cultural influence of gay artists. It places theories about homintern debasing American culture within paranoia of the time that included anticommunism, and racism.

When the US government forced 70,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment camps in 1942, it created administrative tribunals to pass judgment on who was loyal and who was disloyal. This book relates the story of how military and civilian bureaucrats judged these tens of thousands of American citizens during wartime.

George Mason (1725-92) is often omitted from the small circle of founding fathers that are celebrated, but, in his service to America he was, in the words of Thomas Jefferson, ""of the first order of greatness."" This book provides a comprehensive account of Mason's life at the center of the momentous events of eighteenth-century America.