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May We Forever Stand
A History of the Black National Anthem
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
The twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history. May We Forever Stand tells an essential part of that story. With lyrics penned by James Weldon Johnson and music composed by his brother Rosamond, "Lift Every Voice and Sing" was embraced almost immediately...
Gay on God's Campus
Mobilizing for LGBT Equality at Christian Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Although the LGBT movement has made rapid gains in the United States, LGBT people continue to face discrimination in faith communities. In this book, sociologist Jonathan S. Coley documents why and how student activists mobilize for greater inclusion at Christian colleges and universities. Drawing...
Removable Type
Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663-1880
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
In 1663, the Puritan missionary John Eliot, with the help of a Nipmuck convert whom the English called James Printer, produced the first Bible printed in North America. It was printed not in English but in Algonquian, making it one of the first books printed in a Native language. In this ambitious...
Yellow Dogs, Hushpuppies, and Bluetick Hounds
The Official Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Quiz Book
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Who lived at the P.O. in China Grove, Mississippi? What does NASCAR stand for? Where is the Redneck Riviera? When is Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday? What are Yellow Mama and Old Sparky? Entertaining, fun, and educational, this quiz book covers every aspect of southern culture from alligators to...
Yankee Destinies
The Lives of Ordinary Nineteenth-Century Bostonians
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This book reconstructs important milestones in the lives of 2,808 white, native-born men who resided in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1860 or 1870. Selected systematically from the census for those two years, these men represent two cross-sections of those viewed by contemporaries as "typical"...
Southern Cultures
Volume 20: Number 4 – Winter 2014 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
The Winter 2014 Issue brings us duels and Dashboard Poets, eels and faux
villages, a beloved television icon, interviews with liberal hero Walter Mondale
and conservative activist Jack Kershaw, Civil War battlefi eld monuments, and
more. From familiar faces and famous legends to humble commemorations
and...
Army at Home
Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Introducing readers to women whose Civil War experiences have long been ignored, Judith Giesberg examines the lives of working-class women in the North, for whom the home front was a battlefield of its own.
Black and white working-class women managed farms that had been left without a male...
The Earl J. Hess Fortifications Trilogy, Omnibus E-book
Includes Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War; Trench Warfare Under Grant and Lee; and In the Trenches at Petersburg
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
This three-volume Omnibus e-Book set is a collection of Earl J. Hess's definitive works on trench warfare during the Civil War. The set includes:
Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns, 1861-1864, covering the eastern campaigns, from Big Bethel and the Peninsula...
The Place of Stone
Dighton Rock and the Erasure of America's Indigenous Past
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Claimed by many to be the most frequently documented artifact in American archeology, Dighton Rock is a forty-ton boulder covered in petroglyphs in southern Massachusetts. First noted by New England colonists in 1680, the rock's markings have been debated endlessly by scholars and everyday people...
Building the British Atlantic World
Spaces, Places, and Material Culture, 1600-1850
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply interconnected across its regions. In this groundbreaking study, thirteen leading scholars explore the idea of transatlanticism--or a shared "Atlantic world"...
Jack London, Enhanced Ebook
A Writer's Fight for a Better America
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Jack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the long-standing view of London as merely a mass-market producer of potboilers. A onetime child laborer, London led a life of poverty in the Gilded Age before rising to worldwide...
Dixie Highway
Road Building and the Making of the Modern South, 1900-1930
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
At the turn of the twentieth century, good highways eluded most Americans and nearly all southerners. In their place, a jumble of dirt roads covered the region like a bed of briars. Introduced in 1915, the Dixie Highway changed all that by merging hundreds of short roads into dual interstate routes...
The House on Diamond Hill
A Cherokee Plantation Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
At the turn of the nineteenth century, James Vann, a Cherokee chief and entrepreneur, established Diamond Hill in Georgia, the most famous plantation in the southeastern Cherokee Nation. In this first full-length study to reconstruct the history of the plantation, Tiya Miles tells the story of Diamond...
by Qiang Zhai
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2005
In the quarter century after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Beijing assisted Vietnam in its struggle against two formidable foes, France and the United States. Indeed, the rise and fall of this alliance is one of the most crucial developments in the history of the Cold War...