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Closer to Freedom
Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the study of space, social relations, gender, and power in the Old South, Stephanie Camp examines the everyday containment and movement of enslaved men and, especially,...
Country Soul
Making Music and Making Race in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of country and soul. Yet the music emerged from the same songwriters, musicians, and producers in the recording studios of Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee, and...
A Refugee from His Race
Albion W. Tourgée and His Fight against White Supremacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
During one of the darkest periods of U.S. history, when white supremacy was entrenching itself throughout the nation, the white writer-jurist-activist Albion W. Tourgee (1838-1905) forged an extraordinary alliance with African Americans. Acclaimed by blacks as "one of the best friends of the...
Hearts Beating for Liberty
Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Challenging traditional histories of abolition, this book shifts the focus away from the East to show how the women of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin helped build a vibrant antislavery movement in the Old Northwest.
Stacey Robertson argues that the environment of the Old Northwest--with...
The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess
Race, Culture, and America’s Most Famous Opera
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Created by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward and sung by generations of black performers, Porgy and Bess has been both embraced and reviled since its debut in 1935. In this comprehensive account, Ellen Noonan examines the opera's long history of invention and reinvention as a barometer of twentieth-century...
To Lead As Equals
Rural Protest and Political Consciousness in Chinandega, Nicaragua, 1912-1979
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
This book is a carefully argued study of peasants and labor during the Somoza regime, focusing on popular movements in the economically strategic department of Chinandega in western Nicaragua. Jeffrey Gould traces the evolution of group consciousness among peasants and workers as they moved away from...
Working-Class War
American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
No one can understand the complete tragedy of the American experience in Vietnam without reading this book. Nothing so underscores the ambivalence and confusion of the American commitment as does the composition of our fighting forces. The rich and the powerful may have supported the war initially,...
Confederate Minds
The Struggle for Intellectual Independence in the Civil War South
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2010
During the Civil War, some Confederates sought to prove the distinctiveness of the southern people and to legitimate their desire for a separate national existence through the creation of a uniquely southern literature and culture. Michael Bernath follows the activities of a group of southern writers,...
by Caroline Cox
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Between 1819 and 1845, as veterans of the Revolutionary War were filing applications to receive pensions for their service, the government was surprised to learn that many of the soldiers were not men, but boys, many of whom were under the age of sixteen, and some even as young as nine. In Boy Soldiers...
Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens, Enhanced Ebook
Domestic Workers in the South,1865-1960
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
As African American women left the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs they performed, feeding generations of white families and, in the process, profoundly shaping southern foodways and culture. In Cooking in Other...
Well-Read Lives
How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
In a compelling approach structured as theme and variations, Barbara Sicherman offers insightful profiles of a number of accomplished women born in America's Gilded Age who lost--and found--themselves in books, and worked out a new life purpose around them.
Some women, like Edith and Alice...
The African American Roots of Modernism
From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
The period between 1880 and 1918, at the end of which Jim Crow was firmly established and the Great Migration of African Americans was well under way, was not the nadir for black culture, James Smethurst reveals, but instead a time of profound response from African American intellectuals. The African...
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 9: Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Offering a comprehensive view of the South's literary landscape, past and present, this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture celebrates the region's ever-flourishing literary culture and recognizes the ongoing evolution of the southern literary canon. As new writers draw upon and reshape...
Out on Assignment
Newspaper Women and the Making of Modern Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Out on Assignment illuminates the lives and writings of a lost world of women who wrote for major metropolitan newspapers at the start of the twentieth century. Using extraordinary archival research, Alice Fahs unearths a richly networked community of female journalists drawn by the hundreds to major...