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Taking a material culture approach, this book examines urban domestic buildings from Charleston, South Carolina, to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as well those in English cities and towns, to better understand why people built the houses they did and how their homes informed everyday city life.

From baked beans to apple cider, from clam chowder to pumpkin pie, this culinary history reveals the origins of New England foods and cookery. It chronicles the region's cuisine from the English settlers' first encounter with Indian corn in the 17th century to the nostalgic marketing of New England dishes in the first half of the 20th century.

Exploring the history of Civil War commemorations from both sides of the color line, William Blair places the development of memorial holidays and Emancipation Day celebrations in the context of Reconstruction politics and race relations in the South. His examination demonstrates that the politics of commemoration remain contentious.

As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Jane E. Schultz provides a first full history of these female relief workers, showing how the domestic and military arenas merged in Civil War America, blurring the line between homefront and battlefront.

Fought on December 13, 1862, the battle of Fredericksburg ended in a stunning defeat for the Union. This text presents an account of this Civil War campaign, placing it within its political, social and military context. It also addresses questions of strategy and material conditions in the camp.

Reconstructs everyday Anglican religious practice and experience in Virginia from the late 17th century to the start of the American Revolution. Challenging characterizations of the colonial Anglican establishment as weak, the book reveals the central role of the church in Virginian society.

Through letters, diaries, novels and memoirs, this volume focuses on the female descendants of Louise Gibert Pettigrew, who rose from obscurity to privileged prominence in Charleston and on low country plantations, where they flourished as belles and shocked society with their unconventionality.

In this companion to his celebrated earlier book, Gettysburg: The Second Day, Pfanz provides the first definitive account of the fighting between the Army of the Potomac and Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia at Cemetery Hill and Culp's Hill--two of the most critical engagements fought at Gettysburg. 15 maps. 76 illus.

Yankee Destinies: The Lives of Ordinary Nineteenth-Century Bostonians

At Cedar Mountain on August 9, 1862, Stonewall Jackson exercised independent command of a campaign for the last time. From diaries, reminiscences, letters and newspaper articles, Robert Krick reconstructs a detailed account of the confrontation at Cedar Mountain and Jackson's victory there.

Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives

In the tumultuous first decade of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and other leaders saturated the media with altruistic images of themselves in a campaign to win the hearts of Cuba's six million citizens. In Visions of Power in Cuba, Lillian Guerra argues that these visual representations explained rapidly occurring events and encouraged radical change and mutual self-sacrifice.

A history of German criminology from Imperial Germany through the Weimar Republic to the end of the Third Reich. Drawing on primary sources, it shows that German biomedical research on crime predominated over sociological research and thus contributed to the rise of the eugenics movement.

History and Present State of Virginia: A New Edition with an Introduction by Susan Scott Parrish

Atlanta, Cradle of the New South: Race and Remembering in the Civil War's Aftermath

Love in the Time of Revolution: Transatlantic Literary Radicalism and Historical Change, 1793-1818

Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States since World War II

Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation

Native and National in Brazil: Indigeneity after Independence

Dispossession: Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights

Theory of Craft: Function and Aesthetic Expression

Thomas Nast: The Father of Modern Political Cartoons

Explores a wide range of trends that have changed the face of big-time college football and transformed the role of the student-athlete. This book considers such issues as the politicization of football in the 1960s and the implications of the integration of college football.

Part of a series of three volumes that track the lives of several generations of US left-wing writers, this volume delves into literary, emotional, and ideological trajectories of radical cultural workers in the era when the International Brigades fought in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and the US battled in World War II (1941-45).

American Bards: Walt Whitman and Other Unlikely Candidates for National Poet

On October 3, 1873, the US Army hung four Modoc headmen at Oregon's Fort Klamath. The condemned had supposedly murdered the only US Army general to die during the Indian wars of the nineteenth century. Their much-anticipated execution marked the end of the Modoc War of 1872-73. But as Boyd Cothran demonstrates, the conflict's close marked the beginning of a new struggle over the memory of the war.

In the 1950s and 1960s, images of children appeared everywhere, from movies to milk cartons, their smiling faces used to sell everything, including war. In this provocative book, Margaret E. Peacock offers an original account of how Soviet and American leaders used emotionally charged images of children in an attempt to create popular support for their policies at home and abroad.

Selling the Church: The English Parish in Law, Commerce, and Religion, 1350-1550

This text examines interracial sexual relationships under slavery. While laws militated against interracial sex in Virginia before the Civil War it was ubiquitous throughout the state. The customery toleration of sex across the colour line both supported and undermined racism.