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Theater of a Separate War
The Civil War West of the Mississippi River, 1861–1865
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Though its most famous battles were waged in the East at Antietam, Gettysburg, and throughout Virginia, the Civil War was clearly a conflict that raged across a continent. From cotton-rich Texas and the fields of Kansas through Indian Territory and into the high desert of New Mexico, the trans-Mississippi...
by Henry Kyd Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Stonewall Jackson depended on him; General Lee complimented him; Union soldiers admired him; and women in Maryland, Virginia, and even Pennsylvania adored him: Henry Kyd Douglas. During and shortly after the Civil War Douglas set down his experiences of great men and great days. In resonant prose,...
Taylorism Transformed
Scientific Management Theory Since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
This intellectual history interprets recent American business management ideas as political theory, describing their underlying assumptions about power and value. According to Stephen Waring, most business management theory descends from either Frederick Taylor's 'bureaucratic' theory of scientific...
Mountain Feminist: Helen Matthews Lewis, Appalachian Studies, and the Long Women's Movement
An article from Southern Cultures 17:3, The Memory Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Voices from the Southern Oral History Program
Mountain Feminist
Helen Matthews Lewis, Appalachian Studies, and the Long Women's Movement
from an interview by Jessica Wilkerson
compiled and introduced by Jessica Wilkerson and David P. Cline
The "Grandmother of Appalachian Studies"...
by Andrew J. Kirkendall
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
In the twentieth century, illiteracy and its elimination were political issues important enough to figure in the fall of governments (as in Brazil in 1964), the building of nations (in newly independent African countries in the 1970s), and the construction of a revolutionary order (Nicaragua in 1980)....
Before Head Start
The Iowa Station and America's Children
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Between the 1920s and the 1950s, the child welfare movement that had originated as a moral reform effort in the Progressive era evolved into the science of child development. In Before Head Start, Hamilton Cravens chronicles this transformation, both on the national level and from the perspective...
Innocent Abroad
Belgium at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
German violation of Belgian neutrality escalated the 1914 hostilities into a world war, and disagreement about Belgium's future did much to block a compromise peace. In the postwar decade, Belgium's role as intermediary between France and Britain was pivotal, and its primary concerns reveal mush about...
by David F. Schmitz
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
A comprehensive analysis of American foreign policy and Mussolini's Italy. Schmitz argues that the U.S. desire for order, interest in Open Door trade, and concern about left-wing revolution led American policymakers to welcome Mussolini's coming to power and to support fascism in Italy for most of...
by Stella Gentry Sharpe
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This is the story of a little black boy, told for children and illustrated with over fifty photographs showing Tobe and his brothers and sisters in all the varied activities of a small southern farm. Both vocabulary and sentence structure have been kept as simple as possible, and although not graded...
A Communion of Shadows
Religion and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
When the revolutionary technology of photography erupted in American culture in 1839, it swiftly became, in the day's parlance, a "mania." This richly illustrated book positions vernacular photography at the center of the study of nineteenth-century American religious life. As an empirical...
"Truth is mighty & will eventually prevail": Political Correctness, Neo-Confederates, and Robert E. Lee
An article from Southern Cultures 17:3, The Memory Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Truth is mighty & will eventually prevail"
Political Correctness, Neo-Confederates, and Robert E. Lee
by Peter S. Carmichael
Why do we argue—and argue—so much about Robert E. Lee?
"While northerners might appear comparatively apathetic about the memory of the Union cause, white southerners have been tenacious in searching for moral clarity in the past."
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
This new edition includes more than one thousand concise entries, organized by state and city, listing specific details on the location, hours, and history of each garden. For each state, gardens are located on a map. The focus is on historic gardens in existence for over seventy-five years. Some...
Eisenhower and the Mass Media
Peace, Prosperity, and Prime-time TV
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Chesapeake Gardening and Landscaping
The Essential Green Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
What if, one step at a time, we could make our gardens and landscapes more eco-friendly? Barbara W. Ellis's colorful, comprehensive guide shows homeowners, gardeners, garden designers, and landscapers how to do just that for the large and beautiful Chesapeake Bay watershed region. This area includes...