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Germans in the Civil War
The Letters They Wrote Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
German Americans were one of the largest immigrant groups in the Civil War era, and they comprised nearly 10 percent of all Union troops. Yet little attention has been paid to their daily lives--both on the battlefield and on the home front--during the war. This collection of letters, written by German...
The New Vegetarian South
105 Inspired Dishes for Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
In this enlightening cookbook, chef Jennifer Brule brings southern-style food together with plant-based approaches to eating. Her down-to-earth style and 105 recipes will immediately appeal to vegetarians, vegans, and meat-eaters alike. These dishes are also a boon for those who simply love southern...
No More Work
Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
For centuries we've believed that work was where you learned discipline, initiative, honesty, self-reliance--in a word, character. A job was also, and not incidentally, the source of your income: if you didn't work, you didn't eat, or else you were stealing from someone. If only you worked hard, you...
Beyond Love and Loyalty
The Letters of Thomas Wolfe and Elizabeth Nowell, Together with 'no More Rivers,' a Story By Thomas Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Letters--mostly of the nuts-and-bolts, practical variety--between Thomas Wolfe and his literary agent, Elizabeth Nowell. Nowell served as Wolfe's editor for many of his short stories, paring them down to make them acceptable to magazines. Oddly enough, his attitude toward her was grateful rather than...
A Theory of Craft
Function and Aesthetic Expression
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
What is craft? How is it different from fine art or design? In A Theory of Craft, Howard Risatti examines these issues by comparing handmade ceramics, glass, metalwork, weaving, and furniture to painting, sculpture, photography, and machine-made design from Bauhaus to the Memphis Group. He describes...
Ku-Klux
The Birth of the Klan during Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
The first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century Ku Klux Klan since the 1970s, Ku-Klux pinpoints the group's rise with startling acuity. Historians have traced the origins of the Klan to Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866, but the details behind the group's emergence have long remained shadowy....
Within the Plantation Household
Black and White Women of the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories, the author argues...
"Personal in My Memory": The South in Popular Film by some of our favorite writers and filmmakers
An article from Southern Cultures 17:3, The Memory Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Personal in My Memory"
The South in Popular Film
by some of our favorite writers and filmmakers
with an introduction by Godfrey Cheshire
Alice Walker, Allan Gurganus, Randall Kenan, Joe Flora, Kenneth Turan, Elizabeth Spencer, and Andrew Garrison tell how their favorite Southern films...
Crafting a Continuum
Rethinking Contemporary Craft
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
The Arizona State University Art Museum is renowned for its extensive and notable craft collection and features international acquisitions in wood, ceramic, and fiber. This book, edited by the museum's curators, uses the ASU collection to explore the idea of craft within a critical context, as both...
The Harry Pfanz Gettysburg Trilogy, Omnibus E-book
Includes Gettysburg: The First Day; Gettysburg: The Second Day; and Gettysburg: Culp’s Hill and Cemetery Hill
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Available for the first time as an Omnibus Ebook edition, this three-volume set is the acclaimed full account of the three days at Gettysburg, by the noted historian Harry Pfanz.
First Day:
For good reason, the second and third days of the Battle of Gettysburg have received the lion's...
Examining Tuskegee
The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
The forty-year Tuskegee Syphilis Study, which took place in and around Tuskegee, Alabama, from the 1930s through the 1970s, has become a profound metaphor for medical racism, government malfeasance, and physician arrogance. Susan M. Reverby's Examining Tuskegee is a comprehensive analysis of the notorious...
Richard Taylor
Soldier Prince of Dixie
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Using widely scattered and previously unknown primary sources, Parrish's biography of Confederate general Richard Taylor presents him as one of the Civil War's most brilliant generals, eliciting strong performances from his troops in the face of manifold obstacles in three theaters of action.
A Savage Conflict
The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
While the Civil War is famous for epic battles involving massive armies engaged in conventional warfare, A Savage Conflict is the first work to treat guerrilla warfare as critical to understanding the course and outcome of the Civil War. Daniel Sutherland argues that irregular warfare took a large...
by Mark A. Noll
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Viewing the Civil War as a major turning point in American religious thought, Mark A. Noll examines writings about slavery and race from Americans both white and black, northern and southern, and includes commentary from Protestants and Catholics in Europe and Canada. Though the Christians on all...