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Here, the author examines African Americans' struggles for freedom and justice during the Jim Crow and civil rights eras. Using a wide range of sources, she illuminates the connections between the informal strategies of resistance in the early 20th century and the mass protests of the 50s and 60s.

Nikki Mandell explores the growth of corporate welfare programmes around the turn of the 20th century. She argues that businessmen hoped such programmes would transform conflict-ridden relations between management and labour into a harmonious partnership modelled after the Victorian family.

An examination and analysis of the appetite and avarice that led religious organizations to call for moral legislation to regulate such activities as sexuality, divorce, and gambling. This account underscores the role of white southerners who seized on these new laws to control African Americans.

An account of the US literary Left from the 1920s to 1960s. The first volume of a trilogy, it focuses on the forging of a Communist-led literary tradition in the 1930s. The author explores the writers' lives and political commitments, drawing on interviews, letters, memoirs, fiction and poetry.

This biography traces the life and times of Joshua L. Chamberlain, the professor-turned-soldier who led the Twentieth Maine Regiment to glory at Gettysburg, earned a battlefield promotion to brigadier general from Ulysses S. Grant at Petersburg, and was wounded six times in the Civil War.

From the Gibson Girl to the flapper, from the vamp to the New Woman, Carolyn Kitch traces mass media images of women to their historical roots on magazine covers, unveiling the origins of gender stereotypes in early-20th-century American culture.

This text looks back to the 1920s and 1930s to a generation of poets who wrote with the precise hope and the deep conviction that they would move their audiences to action. It offers a different look at the political poetry of Edwin Rolfe, Langston Hughes, Ezra Pound and Muriel Rukeyser.

An appreciation of the significance of the porch in everyday life in the US South. It reveals that the porch is a stage for many social dramas, and it uses literature, folklore, oral histories and photographs to show how southerners have used the porch to negotiate public and private boundaries.

A study of slavery in the maritime US South. It chronicles the world of the slave and free black fishermen, pilots, rivermen, sailors, ferrymen and other labourers who, from the colonial era through to Reconstruction, plied the vast inland waters of North Carolina.

A rendering of the text of ""The Lost Colony"", Paul Green's dramatic retelling of the founding and mysterious disappearance of the Roanoke Island colony (1867). A model for outdoor theatre, the work combines song, dance, drama, special effects and music to breathe life into shadowy legend.

Explains how the black press enlisted public suport for racial justice during World War I. A delicate balance was achieved between affirming patriotism and supporting President Wilson's war for democracy and demanding the government take steps to stop lynching, segregation and disenfranchisement.

America's national pastime has been marked by bitter struggles between owners and players over profits, power and prestige. This is a labour history of the game, from its beginning to 1920. Issues covered include decision-making battles, rival leagues, trade wars and boom-bust cycles.

Detroit's black population grew exponentially in the early decades of the 20th century. This work examines how the women served not just as models of bourgeois respectability, but began to shape traditional standards of deportment in response to the new realities of their lives.

After General Burnside's Union forces achieved victory at Roanoke Island, North Carolina in 1862, slaves from the surrounding areas streamed across Federal lines, onto Roanoke, seeking freedom. This is an account of the settlement which grew there, and which tried to achieve ""a new social order"".

Baseball is both a sport and a business in the United States. Here, Robert Burk traces the turbulent labour history of American baseball since 1921. The accessible account describes the many battles between owners and players that irrevocably altered the business of baseball.

This study examines how cultural works contribute to social debates, how a particular representational form emerges out of a specific historical epoch, and how some intellectuals meditate on the issue of historical responsibility within contemporary American society.

When the people of British North America threw off their colonial bonds, they desired the freedom to create and enjoy good, popular, responsive government. This text traces the central issue on which early Americans pinned their hopes for positive government: internal improvement.

Deals primarily with the role of women physicians in American society, from the 19th century to the end of the 20th century. It discusses the reasons for the lack of women doctors throughout the 20th century until the 1960s and describes the changing conditions in recent years.

First published in 1987, this text is based on a series of interviews, letters and articles from the trade press. It uncovers the voices and experiences of workers in the Southern cotton mill industry during the 1920s and 1930s, and offers a significant contribution to American social history.

A discussion of the ""savage side"" of market capitalism in Appalachia and the social, political and economic roles that mediating structures play in mitigating it. It profiles the work of 23 such structures and distils the practical lessons to be found in their successes and shortcomings.

A detailed history of the US Army in Hawaii and the Philippines between 1902 and 1940. It traces the development of US defence policy in the region, concentrating on strategy, tactics, internal security, relations with local communities and military technology.

In a reinterpretation of American political thought in the revolutionary era, Marc Kruman explores the process of constitution making in each of the 13 original states and shows that the framers created a distinctively American science of politics well before the end of the Confederation era.

In this text the author argues that the coming of the Yankees and the occupation of the South were essential parts of the experience of defeat that helped shape the southern post-war mentality. Topics explored include the evolution of Union occupation policy from leniency to repression.

This text examines the political and social impact of the Cold War across the state of Pennsylvania, tracing the Red Scare's reverberations in party politics, the labour movement, ethnic organizations, schools and universities, and religious organizations.

A history of African Americans in New York City and its rural environs from the arrival of the first African in 1613 to the Bloody Draft Riots of 1863. It explores the twin themes of freedom and servitude, city and countryside, and work, religion and resistance that shaped life in the region.

An account of the southern American slaveholders' path toward a sectional mentality. Drawing on archival evidence and integrating political, religious, economic and literary sources, it traces the growth of a slave-owning culture that cast the planter in the role of benevolent Christian steward.

Historians of the Cold War, argues the author of this book, have too often overlooked the part that European nations played in shaping the post-World War II international system. In particular, he contends that France has been given short shrift.

This memoir blends Bland Simpson's personal experience with travel narrative, oral history and natural history to create a portrait of the Great Dismal Swamp and its people.

Legal and political struggles in America redefined the place of agriculture in the industrial market. The author of this book aims to show that farms were adept at borrowing such legal forms as the corporate trust for their own purposes and obtaining legislative recognition of the new style.

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 barred nearly all Chinese from US shores for ten years. Gyory traces the origins of the Act, contending that rather than confronting divisive problems such as class conflict, politicians sought a safe, non-ideological solution to the nation's industrial crisis.