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The Emancipation Proclamation
Three Views
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
The Emancipation Proclamation is the most important document of arguably the greatest president in U.S. history. Now, Edna Greene Medford, Frank J. Williams, and Harold Holzer -- eminent experts in their fields -- remember, analyze, and interpret the Emancipation Proclamation in three distinct respects:...
by Jefferson Davis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
Lynda Lasswell Crist, Editor
Mary Seaton Dix, Coeditor
Introduction by Frank E. VandiverVolume 7 of The Papers of Jefferson Davis offers a unique view of 1861, the first year of the Confederacy, Davis' presidency, and the Civil War.On January 21 Davis made his affecting farewell speech before a hushed...
The Papers of Jefferson Davis
September 1864–May 1865
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2003
During the last nine months of the Civil War, virtually all of the news reports and President Jefferson Davis's correspondence confirmed the imminent demise of the Confederate States, the nation Davis had striven to uphold since 1861. But despite defeat after defeat on the battlefield, a recalcitrant...
Modernizing Tradition
Gender and Consumerism in Interwar France and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
In the turbulent decades after World War I, both France and Germany sought to return to an idealized, prewar past. Many people believed they could recapture a sense of order and stability by reinstituting traditional gender roles, which the war had thrown off balance. While French and German women...
Louisiana Native Guards
The Black Military Experience During the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1995
Early in the Civil War, Louisiana's Confederate government sanctioned a militia unit of black troops, the Louisiana Native Guards. Intended as a response to demands from members of New Orleans' substantial free black population that they be permitted to participate in the defense of their state, the...
Ambivalent Nation
How Britain Imagined the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
In Ambivalent Nation, Hugh Dubrulle explores how Britons envisioned the American Civil War and how these conceptions influenced their discussions about race, politics, society, military affairs, and nationalism. Contributing new research that expands upon previous scholarship focused on establishing...
African American Foreign Correspondents
A History
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Though African Americans have served as foreign reporters for almost two centuries, their work remains virtually unstudied. In this seminal volume, Jinx Coleman Broussard traces the history of black participation in international newsgathering. Beginning in the mid-1800s with Frederick Douglass and...
Reporting the Cuban Revolution
How Castro Manipulated American Journalists
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Reporting the Cuban Revolution reveals the untold story of thirteen American journalists in Cuba whose stories about Fidel Castro’s revolution changed the way Americans viewed the conflict and altered U.S. foreign policy in Castro’s favor.
Between 1956 and 1959, the thirteen correspondents...
by D. J. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
In the late 1890s a journalist wrote, "Spanish women would rather weep at a husband's or a son's gravesite than blush for lack of patriotic fervor." Yet at a time when women were expected to sacrifice their sons and husbands willingly for the sake of the nation, women organized and led three significant...
Wild Blessings
The Poetry of Lucille Clifton
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, womanhood, spirituality, and mortality, poet Lucille Clifton has published thirteen volumes of poems since 1969 and has received numerous accolades for her work, including the 2000 National Book Award for Blessing the Boats. Her verse is featured...
Approaching the Fields
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Elegiac and fierce, solemn and celebratory, the poems in Chanda Feldman’s Approaching the Fields consider family and history. From black sharecroppers and subsistence farmers along the Mississippi River to contemporary life in the suburbs, the rituals of home and work link racial experience, social...
Intimate Enemies
The Two Worlds of Baroness de Pontalba
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2004
Born into wealth in New Orleans in 1795 and married into misery fifteen years later, the Baroness Micaela Almonester de Pontalba led a life ripe for novelization. Intimate Enemies, however, is the spellbinding true account of this resilient woman's life -- and the three men who most affected its course.
Immediately...
The Next Elvis
Searching for Stardom at Sun Records
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
An American institution, Sun Records has a history with many chapters -- its Memphis origins with visionary Sam Phillips, the breakthrough recordings of Elvis Presley, and the studio's immense influence on the sound of popular music. But behind the company's chart toppers and legendary musicians there...
The Force of Beauty
Transforming French Ideas of Femininity in the Third Republic
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
The market for commercial beauty products exploded in Third Republic France, with a proliferation of goods promising to erase female imperfections and perpetuate an aesthetic of femininity that conveyed health and respectability. While the industry's meteoric growth helped to codify conventional standards...