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Lee Considered
General Robert E. Lee and Civil War History
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Of all the heroes produced by the Civil War, Robert E. Lee is the most revered and perhaps the most misunderstood. Lee is widely portrayed as an ardent antisecessionist who left the United States Army only because he would not draw his sword against his native Virginia, a Southern aristocrat who opposed...
West Pointers and the Civil War
The Old Army in War and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
Most Civil War generals were graduates of West Point, and many of them helped transform the U.S. Army from what was little better than an armed mob that performed poorly during the War of 1812 into the competent fighting force that won the Mexican War. Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh demonstrates how the "old...
Yankee Rebel
The Civil War Journal of Edmund DeWitt Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This volume makes available a fascinating narrative and a document of singular importance to the study of the Civil War. It provides a clear and realistic account of the author's reaction to combat and prison life on Johnson's Island in Lake Erie.
Originally published 1966.
A UNC Press...
Death Blow to Jim Crow
The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
During the Great Depression, black intellectuals, labor organizers, and artists formed the National Negro Congress (NNC) to demand a "second emancipation" in America. Over the next decade, the NNC and its offshoot, the Southern Negro Youth Congress, sought to coordinate and catalyze local...
by Mack Walker
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
As the most learned and eminent public lawyer in Germany, a busy administrator, and a prolific writer, Moser (1701-85) lived and breathed the political order. His correspondence, memoranda, and manuscript autobiography reflect the intricate day-to-day operations of the empire, and his fascinating...
Defining Moments
African American Commemoration and Political Culture in the South, 1863-1913
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2006
The historical memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction has earned increasing attention from scholars. Only recently, however, have historians begun to explore African American efforts to interpret those events. With Defining Moments, Kathleen Clark shines new light on African American commemorative...
Slippery Characters
Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2003
In the 1920s, black janitor Sylvester Long reinvented himself as Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, and Elizabeth Stern, the native-born daughter of a German Lutheran and a Welsh Baptist, authored the immigrant's narrative I Am a Woman--and a Jew; in the 1990s, Asa Carter, George Wallace's former speechwriter,...
Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story
Statesman of the Old Republic
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
The primary founder and guiding spirit of the Harvard Law School and the most prolific publicist of the nineteenth century, Story served as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1811 to 1845. His attitudes and goals as lawyer, politician, judge, and legal educator were founded on the republican...
Her Best Shot
Women and Guns in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
The gun-toting woman holds enormous symbolic significance in American culture. For over two centuries, women who pick up guns have disrupted the popular association of guns and masculinity, spurring debates about women's capabilities for violence as well as their capacity for full citizenship. In...
Writing Deafness
The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Taking an original approach to American literature, Christopher Krentz examines nineteenth-century writing from a new angle: that of deafness, which he shows to have surprising importance in identity formation. The rise of deaf education during this period made deaf people much more visible in American...
The Trials of Laura Fair
Sex, Murder, and Insanity in the Victorian West
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
On November 3, 1870, on a San Francisco ferry, Laura Fair shot a bullet into the heart of her married lover, A. P. Crittenden. Throughout her two murder trials, Fair's lawyers, supported by expert testimony from physicians, claimed that the shooting was the result of temporary insanity caused by a...
Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860
An Abridged Edition of Conjectures of Order
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Michael O'Brien has masterfully abridged his award-winning two-volume intellectual history of the Old South, Conjectures of Order, depicting a culture that was simultaneously national, postcolonial, and imperial, influenced by European intellectual traditions, yet also deeply implicated in the making...
Love's Whipping Boy
Violence and Sentimentality in the American Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
Working to reconcile the Christian dictum to "love one's neighbor as oneself" with evidence of U.S. sociopolitical aggression, including slavery, corporal punishment of children, and Indian removal, Elizabeth Barnes focuses her attention on aggressors--rather than the weak or abused--to...
by Carl J. Vipperman
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This first scholarly biography of Lowndes establishes his place in history, even though he was overshadowed by contemporaries John C. Calhoun and Henry Clay, and provides valuable insights into our understanding of the development and decline of republicanism. Lowndes served in Congress during a time...