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Victorian Domesticity
Families in the Life and Art of Louisa May Alcott
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
The subject of Victorian Domesticity is family life in America. The life and works of Louisa May Alcott served as the vehicle for exploring and analyzing this subject. Although Alcott was deeply influenced by popular currents of sentimentality, her own experience exposed her to the confusions and...
by Harold K. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
The writer’s fascination with America’s spiritual and religious evolution in the 19th century.
Mark Twain is often pictured as a severe critic of religious piety, shaking his fist at God and mocking the devout. Such a view, however, is only partly correct. It ignores the social realities...
Continuing Bonds with the Dead
Parental Grief and Nineteenth-Century American Authors
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Harold K. Bush's Continuing Bonds with the Dead examines the profound transfiguration that the death of a child wrought on the literary work of nineteenth-century American writers. Taking as his subjects Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, and W. E. B. Du Bois,...
A Conquering Spirit
Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813–1814
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2006
The Fort Mims massacre changed the course of American history in many ways, not the least of which was the ensuing rise of one Andrew Jackson to the national stage. The unprecedented Indian victory over the encroaching Americans who were bent on taking their lands and destroying their culture horrified...
Time in the Barrel
A Marine’s Account of the Battle for Con Thien
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
A Marine’s highly personal memoir reliving the hellish days of a pivotal conflict of the Vietnam War
Con Thien, located only two miles from the demilitarized zone dividing North and South Vietnam, was a United States Marine Corps firebase that was the scene of fierce combat for months on...
Unity in Christ and Country
American Presbyterians in the Revolutionary Era, 1758–1801
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
In this compelling account, William Harrison Taylor examines the interdenominational pursuits of the American Presbyterian Church from 1758 to 1801 to highlight the church’s ambitious agenda of fostering and uniting a host of New World values, among them Christendom, nationalism, and territorial...
by Arthur W. Tedder
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
Arthur Tedder, who was knighted and raised to the peerage for his contributions to the Allied victory in World War II, served in the British air force in World War I and played an important role in professionalizing and organizing British air forces between the two world wars. During World War II...
Splendid Land, Splendid People
The Chickasaw Indians to Removal
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Before the Chickasaws were removed to lands in Oklahoma in the 1800s, the heart of the Chickasaw Nation was located east of the Mississippi River in the upper watershed of the Tombigbee River in what is today northeastern Mississippi. Their lands had been called "splendid and fertile" by...
The Cana Sanctuary
History, Diplomacy, and Black Catholic Marriage in Antebellum St. Augustine, Florida
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
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The Cana Sanctuary uses the collective testimony from more than two hundred Patriot War claims, previously believed to have been destroyed, to offer insight into the lesser-known Patriot War of 1812 and to constitute an intellectual history of...
Doctrine and Race
African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism between the Wars
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Doctrine and Race examines the history of African American Baptists and Methodists of the early twentieth century and their struggle for equality in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism.
By presenting African American Protestantism in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism,...
South by Southwest
Katherine Anne Porter and the Burden of Texas History
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
An interdisciplinary study of Katherine Anne Porter’s troubled relationship to her Texas origins and southern roots, South by Southwest offers a fresh look at this ever-relevant author.
Today, more than thirty years after her death, Katherine Anne Porter remains a fascinating figure. Critics...
by Louis F. Burns
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Traces 400 years of Osage culture from prehistoric times to the group's current status as an officially recognized tribe.
Osage traditional lands are located in mid-continental America encompassed by the present-day states of Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma. Major waterways through...
By the Noble Daring of Her Sons
The Florida Brigade of the Army of Tennessee
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
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By the Noble Daring of Her Sons is a tale of ordinary Florida citizens who, during extraordinary times, were called to battle against their fellow countrymen.
Over the past twenty years, historians have worked diligently to explore...
Captives in Gray
The Civil War Prisons of the Union
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Perhaps no topic is more heated, and the sources more tendentious, than that of Civil War prisons and the treatment of prisoners of war (POWs). Partisans of each side, then and now, have vilified the other for maltreatment of their POWs, while seeking to excuse their own distressing record of prisoner...