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Thomas Nast
The Father of Modern Political Cartoons
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Thomas Nast (1840-1902), the founding father of American political cartooning, is perhaps best known for his cartoons portraying political parties as the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant. Nast's legacy also includes a trove of other political cartoons, his successful attack on the machine...
Root and Branch
African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
In this remarkable book, Graham Hodges presents a comprehensive history of African Americans in New York City and its rural environs from the arrival of the first African--a sailor marooned on Manhattan Island in 1613--to the bloody Draft Riots of 1863. Throughout, he explores the intertwined themes...
Families in Crisis in the Old South
Divorce, Slavery, and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
In the antebellum South, divorce was an explosive issue. As one lawmaker put it, divorce was to be viewed as a form of "madness," and as another asserted, divorce reduced communities to the "lowest ebb of degeneracy." How was it that in this climate, the number of divorces rose...
Sherman's Civil War
Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
The first major modern edition of the wartime correspondence of General William T. Sherman, this volume features more than 400 letters written between the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and the day Sherman bade farewell to his troops in 1865. Together, they trace Sherman's rise from obscurity...
Brand NFL
Making and Selling America's Favorite Sport
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2010
Professional football today is an $8 billion sports entertainment industry--and the most popular spectator sport in America, with designs on expansion across the globe. In this astute field-level view of the National Football League since 1960, Michael Oriard looks closely at the development of the...
by Mansel G. Blackford
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
From the colonial era to the present day, small businesses have been an integral part of American life. First published in 1991 and now thoroughly revised and updated, A History of Small Business in America explores the central but ever-changing role played by small enterprises in the nation's economic,...
From Goodwill to Grunge
A History of Secondhand Styles and Alternative Economies
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
In this surprising new look at how clothing, style, and commerce came together to change American culture, Jennifer Le Zotte examines how secondhand goods sold at thrift stores, flea markets, and garage sales came to be both profitable and culturally influential. Initially, selling used goods in the...
Mapping The Democratic Forest: The Postsouthern Spaces of William Eggleston
An article from Southern Cultures 17:2, The Photography Issue
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Eggleston, the iconoclastic and colorful groundbreaker, imbues the mundane with vibrancy.This article appears in the Summer 2011 issue of Southern Cultures:The Photography Issue. "When the color photographs of William Eggleston first appeared at the Museum of Modern Art in 1976, the boldness...
Jim Crow Wisdom
Memory and Identity in Black America since 1940
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
How do we balance the desire for tales of exceptional accomplishment with the need for painful doses of reality? How hard do we work to remember our past or to forget it? These are some of the questions that Jonathan Scott Holloway addresses in this exploration of race memory from the dawn of the...
Doctoring Freedom
The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
For enslaved and newly freed African Americans, attaining freedom and citizenship without health for themselves and their families would have been an empty victory. Even before emancipation, African Americans recognized that control of their bodies was a critical battleground in their struggle for...
Working Cures
Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Exploring the charged topic of black health under slavery, Sharla Fett reveals how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery, and other African American healing practices became arts of resistance in the antebellum South.
Fett shows how enslaved men and women drew on African precedents to develop a view...
Funding Feminism
Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement, 1870–1967
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of women's history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries advanced the status of all women through acts of philanthropy. This cadre of activists included Phoebe Hearst,...
Capital Intentions
Female Proprietors in San Francisco, 1850-1920
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Late nineteenth-century San Francisco was an ethnically diverse but male-dominated society bustling from a rowdy gold rush, earthquakes, and explosive economic growth. Within this booming marketplace, some women stepped beyond their roles as wives, caregivers, and homemakers to start businesses that...
Rank Ladies
Gender and Cultural Hierarchy in American Vaudeville
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
A disrobing acrobat, a female Hamlet, and a tuba-playing labor activist--all these women come to life in Rank Ladies. In this comprehensive study of women in vaudeville, Alison Kibler reveals how female performers, patrons, and workers shaped the rise and fall of the most popular live entertainment...