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We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here
Work, Community, and Memory on California's Round Valley Reservation, 1850-1941
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The federally recognized Round Valley Indian Tribes are a small, confederated people whose members today come from twelve indigenous California tribes. In 1849, during the California gold rush, people from several of these tribes were relocated to a reservation farm in northern Mendocino County. Fusing...
Andersonville
The Last Depot
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Between February 1864 and April 1865, 41,000 Union prisoners of war were taken to the stockade at Anderson Station, Georgia, where nearly 13,000 of them died. Most contemporary accounts placed the blame for the tragedy squarely on the shoulders of the Confederates who administered the prison or on...
Reluctant Rebels
The Confederates Who Joined the Army after 1861
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2010
After the feverish mobilization of secession had faded, why did Southern men join the Confederate army? Kenneth Noe examines the motives and subsequent performance of "later enlisters." He offers a nuanced view of men who have often been cast as less patriotic and less committed to the cause,...
Slavery on Trial
Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
America's legal consciousness was high during the era that saw the imprisonment of abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison, the execution of slave revolutionary Nat Turner, and the hangings of John Brown and his Harpers Ferry co-conspirators. Jeannine Marie DeLombard examines how debates over slavery...
by Hermann Langbein
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Hermann Langbein was allowed to know and see extraordinary things forbidden to other Auschwitz inmates. Interned at Auschwitz in 1942 and classified as a non-Jewish political prisoner, he was assigned as clerk to the chief SS physician of the extermination camp complex, which gave him access to documents,...
by Katherine DuPre Lumpkin
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Although Angelina and Sarah Grimke have been regarded as equally gifted and involved abolitionists and nineteenth-century women's rights advocates, this first biography of Angelina clearly shows that she, indeed, was the outstanding leader, as her contemporaries recognized. Through the use of unpublished...
by Kate Haulman
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
In eighteenth-century America, fashion served as a site of contests over various forms of gendered power. Here, Kate Haulman explores how and why fashion--both as a concept and as the changing style of personal adornment--linked gender relations, social order, commerce, and political authority during...
by William E. Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Nelson identifies three principal institutions involved in conflict resolution: the twon meeting, the church congregation, and the courts of law. He subsequently determines the type of cases over which each institution had jurisdiction and studies the procedures by which each functioned. He examines...
by Morton Borden
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Borden reveals the ways in which many mainstream Protestants worked to maintain preferential treatment for Christians in common law, state constitutions, and federal practices, even attempting through interpretation and amendment to alter the meaning of the U.S. Constitution. Even though religious...
Brutality Garden
Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In the late 1960s, Brazilian artists forged a watershed cultural movement known as Tropicalia. Music inspired by that movement is today enjoying considerable attention at home and abroad. Few new listeners, however, make the connection between this music and the circumstances surrounding its creation,...
Artisans of Glory
Writers and Historical Thought in Seventeenth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Ranum analyzes the canons of writing history and describes the lives and achievements of the royal French historiographers. He examines the manner in which these writers described and, in some sense, created the glory that surrounded the lives of the nobility, hoping by so doing to enhance their own...
Island Queens and Mission Wives
How Gender and Empire Remade Hawai‘i’s Pacific World
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
In the late eighteenth century, Hawai'i's ruling elite employed sophisticated methods for resisting foreign intrusion. By the mid-nineteenth century, however, American missionaries had gained a foothold in the islands. Jennifer Thigpen explains this important shift by focusing on two groups of women:...
What Would Jesus Read?
Popular Religious Books and Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Since the late nineteenth century, religiously themed books in America have been commercially popular yet scorned by critics. Working at the intersection of literary history, lived religion, and consumer culture, Erin A. Smith considers the largely unexplored world of popular religious books, examining...
Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare
Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
In Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare, Leigh Raiford argues that over the past one hundred years, activists in the black freedom struggle have used photographic imagery both to gain political recognition and to develop a different visual vocabulary about black lives. Offering readings of the use of photography...