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Forgeries of Memory and Meaning
Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Cedric J. Robinson offers a new understanding of race in America through his analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. He argues that economic, political, and cultural forces present in the eras of silent film and the early "talkies" firmly entrenched limited representations...
Root and Branch
African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
In this remarkable book, Graham Hodges presents a comprehensive history of African Americans in New York City and its rural environs from the arrival of the first African--a sailor marooned on Manhattan Island in 1613--to the bloody Draft Riots of 1863. Throughout, he explores the intertwined themes...
Families in Crisis in the Old South
Divorce, Slavery, and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
In the antebellum South, divorce was an explosive issue. As one lawmaker put it, divorce was to be viewed as a form of "madness," and as another asserted, divorce reduced communities to the "lowest ebb of degeneracy." How was it that in this climate, the number of divorces rose...
David Ruggles
A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
David Ruggles (1810-1849) was one of the most heroic--and has been one of the most often overlooked--figures of the early abolitionist movement in America. Graham Russell Gao Hodges provides the first biography of this African American activist, writer, publisher, and hydrotherapist who secured liberty...
Sherman's Civil War
Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
The first major modern edition of the wartime correspondence of General William T. Sherman, this volume features more than 400 letters written between the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and the day Sherman bade farewell to his troops in 1865. Together, they trace Sherman's rise from obscurity...
Brand NFL
Making and Selling America's Favorite Sport
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2010
Professional football today is an $8 billion sports entertainment industry--and the most popular spectator sport in America, with designs on expansion across the globe. In this astute field-level view of the National Football League since 1960, Michael Oriard looks closely at the development of the...
by Mansel G. Blackford
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
From the colonial era to the present day, small businesses have been an integral part of American life. First published in 1991 and now thoroughly revised and updated, A History of Small Business in America explores the central but ever-changing role played by small enterprises in the nation's economic,...
Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers
How a Nineteenth-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea Changed American Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
In this engagingly written biography, Tamara Plakins Thornton delves into the life and work of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a man Thomas Jefferson once called a "meteor in the hemisphere." Bowditch was a mathematician, astronomer, navigator, seafarer, and business executive whose Enlightenment-inspired...
Mapping The Democratic Forest: The Postsouthern Spaces of William Eggleston
An article from Southern Cultures 17:2, The Photography Issue
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Eggleston, the iconoclastic and colorful groundbreaker, imbues the mundane with vibrancy.This article appears in the Summer 2011 issue of Southern Cultures:The Photography Issue. "When the color photographs of William Eggleston first appeared at the Museum of Modern Art in 1976, the boldness...
Jim Crow Wisdom
Memory and Identity in Black America since 1940
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
How do we balance the desire for tales of exceptional accomplishment with the need for painful doses of reality? How hard do we work to remember our past or to forget it? These are some of the questions that Jonathan Scott Holloway addresses in this exploration of race memory from the dawn of the...
Martha Jefferson Randolph, Daughter of Monticello
Her Life and Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
As the oldest and favorite daughter of Thomas Jefferson, Martha "Patsy" Jefferson Randolph (1772-1836) was extremely well educated, traveled in the circles of presidents and aristocrats, and was known on two continents for her particular grace and sincerity. Yet, as mistress of a large household,...
Working Cures
Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Exploring the charged topic of black health under slavery, Sharla Fett reveals how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery, and other African American healing practices became arts of resistance in the antebellum South.
Fett shows how enslaved men and women drew on African precedents to develop a view...
The Claims of Kinfolk
African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
In The Claims of Kinfolk, Dylan Penningroth uncovers an extensive informal economy of property ownership among slaves and sheds new light on African American family and community life from the heyday of plantation slavery to the "freedom generation" of the 1870s. By focusing on relationships among...
Funding Feminism
Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement, 1870–1967
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of women's history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries advanced the status of all women through acts of philanthropy. This cadre of activists included Phoebe Hearst,...