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Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663-1880
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
In 1663, the Puritan missionary John Eliot, with the help of a Nipmuck convert whom the English called James Printer, produced the first Bible printed in North America. It was printed not in English but in Algonquian, making it one of the first books printed in a Native language. In this ambitious...
The Long Shadow of Vatican II
Living Faith and Negotiating Authority since the Second Vatican Council
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
With the Second Vatican Council (1962–65), the Roman Catholic Church for the first time took a positive stance on modernity. Its impact on the thought, worship, and actions of Catholics worldwide was enormous. Benefiting from a half century of insights gained since Vatican II ended, this volume...
The Poetry of Thomas Hardy
A Handbook and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This handbook provides the background necessary for fully understanding the nearly one thousand poems of Hardy. As it treats the poems individually and often supplements the analysis of a poem by relating it to other poems and to passages in the fiction, every comment helps build a portrait of Hardy...
by Maury Klein
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
To Americans living in the early twentieth century, E. H. Harriman was as familiar a name as J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie. Like his fellow businessmen, Harriman (1847-1909) had become the symbol for an entire industry: Morgan stood for banking, Rockefeller for oil, Carnegie...
Yankee Destinies
The Lives of Ordinary Nineteenth-Century Bostonians
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This book reconstructs important milestones in the lives of 2,808 white, native-born men who resided in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1860 or 1870. Selected systematically from the census for those two years, these men represent two cross-sections of those viewed by contemporaries as "typical"...
Southern Cultures
Volume 20: Number 4 – Winter 2014 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
The Winter 2014 Issue brings us duels and Dashboard Poets, eels and faux
villages, a beloved television icon, interviews with liberal hero Walter Mondale
and conservative activist Jack Kershaw, Civil War battlefi eld monuments, and
more. From familiar faces and famous legends to humble commemorations
and...
Army at Home
Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Introducing readers to women whose Civil War experiences have long been ignored, Judith Giesberg examines the lives of working-class women in the North, for whom the home front was a battlefield of its own.
Black and white working-class women managed farms that had been left without a male...
by Josephus Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Born during the Civil War, Josephus Daniels has lived a remarkably full life and played a substantial part in one of the most significant periods of our nation's history. This volume of the autobiography of Wilson's secretary of the navy covers the period up to the year 1893 and is concerned with...
Himmler's Auxiliaries
The Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle and the German National Minorities of Europe, 1933-1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Lumans studies the relations between Nazi Germany and the German minority populations of other European countries, examining these ties within the context of Hitler's foreign policy and the racial policies of SS Chief Heinrich Himmler. He shows how the Reich's racial and political interests in these...
Hitler and the Forgotten Nazis
A History of Austrian National Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Pauley shows that the Austrian Nazis were not compliant servants to the German Nazi party and that they controlled a fascinating movement troubled by contradictions between perverted idealism and violence. Pauley analyzes the Austrian Nazi party's social composition, leadership problems, slow growth...
The Earl J. Hess Fortifications Trilogy, Omnibus E-book
Includes Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War; Trench Warfare Under Grant and Lee; and In the Trenches at Petersburg
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
This three-volume Omnibus e-Book set is a collection of Earl J. Hess's definitive works on trench warfare during the Civil War. The set includes:
Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns, 1861-1864, covering the eastern campaigns, from Big Bethel and the Peninsula...
Theater of a Separate War
The Civil War West of the Mississippi River, 1861–1865
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Though its most famous battles were waged in the East at Antietam, Gettysburg, and throughout Virginia, the Civil War was clearly a conflict that raged across a continent. From cotton-rich Texas and the fields of Kansas through Indian Territory and into the high desert of New Mexico, the trans-Mississippi...
The Place of Stone
Dighton Rock and the Erasure of America's Indigenous Past
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Claimed by many to be the most frequently documented artifact in American archeology, Dighton Rock is a forty-ton boulder covered in petroglyphs in southern Massachusetts. First noted by New England colonists in 1680, the rock's markings have been debated endlessly by scholars and everyday people...
The Jeanes Teacher in the United States, 1908-1933
An Account of Twenty-five Years' Experience in the Supervision of Negro Rural Schools
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Most educators have heard of the Jeanes Teachers and know something of their work as supervisors of black rural schools in the southern states. The present volume--historical, descriptive, and critical--is an account of the Jeanes movement from its inception down to 1933. Here is an excellent answer...