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Family Bonds
Free Blacks and Re-enslavement Law in Antebellum Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Between 1854 and 1864, more than a hundred free African Americans in Virginia proposed to enslave themselves and, in some cases, their children. Ted Maris-Wolf explains this phenomenon as a response to state legislation that forced free African Americans to make a terrible choice: leave enslaved loved...
by Louis S. Gerteis
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
From the late colonial period through the Civil War, slavery developed as the most powerful obstacle to the triumph of liberal values in America. In the second quarter of the nineteenth century, the ambiguities of the revolutionary generation's accomodation of slavery gave way to a direct and violent...
Governing Spirits
Religion, Miracles, and Spectacles in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898-1956
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Freedom of religion did not come easily to Cuba or Puerto Rico. Only after the arrival of American troops during the Spanish-American War were non-Catholics permitted to practice their religions openly and to proselytize. When government efforts to ensure freedom of worship began, reformers on both...
An Unwanted War
The Diplomacy of the United States and Spain Over Cuba, 1895-1898
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Offner clarifies the complex relations of the United States, Spain, and Cuba leading up to the Spanish-American War and contends that the war was not wanted by any of the parties but was nonetheless unavoidable. He shows that a final round of peace negotiations failed in large part because internal political constraints limited diplomatic flexibility.
Heart versus Head
Judge-Made Law in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Challenging traditional accounts of the development of American private law, Peter Karsten offers an important new perspective on the making of the rules of common law and equity in nineteenth-century courts. The central story of that era, he finds, was a struggle between a jurisprudence of the head,...
Worried Sick
A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Nortin Hadler's clearly reasoned argument surmounts the cacophony of the health care debate. Hadler urges everyone to ask health care providers how likely it is that proposed treatments will afford meaningful benefits and he teaches how to actively listen to the answer. Each chapter of Worried Sick...
by Jeffrey C. Beane, Alvin L. Braswell, Joseph C. Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Revised and updated to reflect the most current science, and including 30 new species, this authoritative and comprehensive volume is the definitive guide to the amphibians and reptiles of the Carolinas and Virginia. The new edition features 189 species of salamanders, frogs, crocodilians, turtles,...
A Soldier's General
The Civil War Letters of Major General Lafayette McLaws
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
During his service in the Confederate army, Major General Lafayette McLaws (1821-1897) served under and alongside such famous officers as Robert E. Lee, Joseph E. Johnston, James Longstreet, and John B. Hood. He played a significant role in some of the most crucial battles of the Civil War, including...
Gunnar Myrdal and America's Conscience
Social Engineering and Racial Liberalism, 1938-1987
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma (1944) influenced the attitudes of a generation of Americans on the race issue and established Myrdal as a major critic of American politics and culture. Walter Jackson explores how the Swedish Social Democratic scholar, policymaker, and activist came to shape a consensus on one of America's most explosive public issues.
"A Peculiar People"
Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Though the U.S. Constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion, it does not specify what counts as a religion. From its founding in the 1830s, Mormonism, a homegrown American faith, drew thousands of converts but far more critics. In "A Peculiar People", J. Spencer Fluhman offers...
Nicaragua's Other Revolution
Religious Faith and Political Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The 1979 rebellion in Nicaragua was the first in modern Latin America to be carried out with the active participation and support of Christians. Like all revolutions, the Nicaraguan Revolution has provoked controversy and hostility, and the Christian presence has been a focal point in the debate....
Latinos at the Golden Gate
Creating Community and Identity in San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Born in an explosive boom and built through distinct economic networks, San Francisco has a cosmopolitan character that often masks the challenges migrants faced to create community in the city by the bay. Latin American migrants have been part of the city's story since its beginning. Charting the...
The Social Gospel in Black and White
American Racial Reform, 1885-1912
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In a major revision of accepted wisdom, this book, originally published by UNC Press in 1991, demonstrates that American social Christianity played an important role in racial reform during the period between Emancipation and the civil rights movement.
As organizations created by the heirs of antislavery...
This Grand Experiment
When Women Entered the Federal Workforce in Civil War–Era Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2017
In the volatility of the Civil War, the federal government opened its payrolls to women. Although the press and government officials considered the federal employment of women to be an innocuous wartime aberration, women immediately saw the new development for what it was: a rare chance to obtain...