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Crescent City Girls
The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
What was it like to grow up black and female in the segregated South? To answer this question, LaKisha Simmons blends social history and cultural studies, recreating children's streets and neighborhoods within Jim Crow New Orleans and offering a rare look into black girls' personal lives. Simmons...
Frances Willard
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Frances Willard (1839-98), national president of the WCTU, headed the first mass organization of American women, and through the work of this group, women were able to move into public life by 1900. Willard inspired this process by her skillful leadership, her broad social vision, and her traditional...
The South in Color
A Visual Journal
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Since the moment William Ferris's parents gave their twelve-year-old son a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera for Christmas in 1954, Ferris passionately began to photograph his world. He has never stopped. The sixties and seventies were a particularly significant period for Ferris as he became a pathbreaking...
Lost in Space
Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Archaeologists and anthropologists discover other civilizations; science fiction writers invent them. In this collection of her major essays, Marleen Barr argues that feminist science fiction writers contribute to postmodern literary canons with radical alternatives to mainstream patriarchal society....
Rich Indians
Native People and the Problem of Wealth in American History
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Long before lucrative tribal casinos sparked controversy, Native Americans amassed other wealth that provoked intense debate about the desirability, morality, and compatibility of Indian and non-Indian economic practices. Alexandra Harmon examines seven such instances of Indian affluence and the dilemmas...
Resurrecting the Brother of Jesus
The James Ossuary Controversy and the Quest for Religious Relics
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
In 2002 a burial box of skeletal remains purchased anonymously from the black market was identified as the ossuary of James, the brother of Jesus. Transformed by the media into a religious and historical relic overnight, the artifact made its way to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, where 100,000...
Hotel Life
The Story of a Place Where Anything Can Happen
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
What is a hotel? As Caroline Field Levander and Matthew Pratt Guterl show us in this thought-provoking book, even though hotels are everywhere around us, we rarely consider their essential role in our modern existence and how they help frame our sense of who and what we are. They are, in fact, as...
A Movement Without Marches
African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Lisa Levenstein reframes highly charged debates over the origins of chronic African American poverty and the social policies and political struggles that led to the postwar urban crisis. A Movement Without Marches follows poor black women as they traveled from some of Philadelphia's most impoverished...
Forging Freedom
Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
For black women in antebellum Charleston, freedom was not a static legal category but a fragile and contingent experience. In this deeply researched social history, Amrita Chakrabarti Myers analyzes the ways in which black women in Charleston acquired, defined, and defended their own vision of freedom.
Drawing...
by Henry Kyd Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Stonewall Jackson depended on him; General Lee complimented him; Union soldiers admired him; and women in Maryland, Virginia, and even Pennsylvania adored him: Henry Kyd Douglas. During and shortly after the Civil War Douglas set down his experiences of great men and great days. In resonant prose,...
A Virginia Yankee in the Civil War
The Diaries of David Hunter Strother
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The Civil War diaries of David Hunter Strother, known better to his contemporaries as "Porte Crayon," chronicle his three years of service in the Union army with the same cogency and eye for detail that made him one of the most popular writers and illustrators in America in his time. A Virginian...
The Nazi Voter
The Social Foundations of Fascism in Germany, 1919-1933
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
The first study based on a large national sample of both urban and rural districts examines the Nazi constituency -- how it was formed, from which social groups, under what conditions, and with what promises. Using advanced statistical techniques to analyze each national election of the Weimar era,...
A Good Southerner
The Life of Henry A. Wise of Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Wise (1806-76) was extremely active on the Virginia and national political scene from the early 1830s to the mid-1860s, drawing popular support because of his projection of hopefulness and energy. Regarded as eccentric, Wise is given, in this study, an interpretation that finds consistency in his...
Mountain Feminist: Helen Matthews Lewis, Appalachian Studies, and the Long Women's Movement
An article from Southern Cultures 17:3, The Memory Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Voices from the Southern Oral History Program
Mountain Feminist
Helen Matthews Lewis, Appalachian Studies, and the Long Women's Movement
from an interview by Jessica Wilkerson
compiled and introduced by Jessica Wilkerson and David P. Cline
The "Grandmother of Appalachian Studies"...