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God's Almost Chosen Peoples
A Religious History of the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Throughout the Civil War, soldiers and civilians on both sides of the conflict saw the hand of God in the terrible events of the day, but the standard narratives of the period pay scant attention to religion. Now, in God's Almost Chosen Peoples, Lincoln Prize-winning historian George C. Rable offers...
Buttermilk
a Savor the South® cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Most southern cooks will agree with Debbie Moose when she writes, "Like a full moon on a warm southern night, buttermilk makes something special happen." Buttermilk explores the rich possibilities of this beloved ingredient and offers remarkably wide-ranging recipes for its use in cooking...
Sweet Potatoes
a Savor the South® cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
In this paean to the brightly colored root, April McGreger tells the multifaceted history of a fundamental southern food, praising its rich and diverse savory-to-sweet flavor profile, botanical varieties, and shockingly high nutritional value. Along with instructions for selection and storage, McGreger...
by Kenneth M. Price
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Walt Whitman "is America," according to Ezra Pound. More than a century after his death, Whitman's name regularly appears in political speeches, architectural inscriptions, television programs, and films, and it adorns schools, summer camps, truck stops, corporate centers, and shopping malls....
The Call of Bilal
Islam in the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
How do people in the African diaspora practice Islam? While the term "Black Muslim" may conjure images of Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, millions of African-descended Muslims around the globe have no connection to the American-based Nation of Islam. The Call of Bilal is a penetrating account...
The Revolution of 1861
The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
It was no coincidence that the Civil War occurred during an age of violent political upheaval in Europe and the Americas. Grounding the causes and philosophies of the Civil War in an international context, Andre M. Fleche examines how questions of national self-determination, race, class, and labor...
Slavery and the American West
The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2000
Tracing the sectionalization of American politics in the 1840s and 1850s, Michael Morrison offers a comprehensive study of how slavery and territorial expansion intersected as causes of the Civil War. Specifically, he argues that the common heritage of the American Revolution bound Americans together...
Gospel of Disunion
Religion and Separatism in the Antebellum South
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
The centrality of religion in the life of the Old South, the strongly religious nature of the sectional controversy over slavery, and the close affinity between religion and antebellum American nationalism all point toward the need to explore the role of religion in the development of southern sectionalism....
The Music Has Gone Out of the Movement
Civil Rights and the Johnson Administration, 1965-1968
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
After the passage of sweeping civil rights and voting rights legislation in 1964 and 1965, the civil rights movement stood poised to build on considerable momentum. In a famous speech at Howard University in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared that victory in the next battle for civil rights...
Seeds of Empire
Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas. In response, Mexico threw open its northern territories to American farmers in hopes that...
Sexual Injustice
Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Focusing on six major Supreme Court cases during the 1960s and 1970s, Marc Stein examines the generally liberal rulings on birth control, abortion, interracial marriage, and obscenity in Griswold, Eisenstadt, Roe, Loving, and Fanny Hill alongside a profoundly conservative ruling on homosexuality in...
Worried Sick
A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Nortin Hadler's clearly reasoned argument surmounts the cacophony of the health care debate. Hadler urges everyone to ask health care providers how likely it is that proposed treatments will afford meaningful benefits and he teaches how to actively listen to the answer. Each chapter of Worried Sick...
Gunnar Myrdal and America's Conscience
Social Engineering and Racial Liberalism, 1938-1987
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma (1944) influenced the attitudes of a generation of Americans on the race issue and established Myrdal as a major critic of American politics and culture. Walter Jackson explores how the Swedish Social Democratic scholar, policymaker, and activist came to shape a consensus on one of America's most explosive public issues.
'Man Over Money'
The Southern Populist Critique of American Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
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