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Ask and Tell
Gay and Lesbian Veterans Speak Out
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was the directive of President Clinton's 1993 military policy regarding gay and lesbian soldiers. This official silence continued a collective amnesia about the patriotic service and courageous sacrifices of homosexual troops. Ask and Tell recovers these lost voices, offering...
Learning from the Wounded
The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Nearly two-thirds of the Civil War's approximately 750,000 fatalities were caused by disease--a staggering fact for which the American medical profession was profoundly unprepared. In the years before the war, training for physicians in the United States was mostly unregulated, and medical schools'...
Tuskegee's Truths
Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Between 1932 and 1972, approximately six hundred African American men in Alabama served as unwitting guinea pigs in what is now considered one of the worst examples of arrogance, racism, and duplicity in American medical research--the Tuskegee syphilis study. Told they were being treated for "bad...
Infectious Fear
Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
For most of the first half of the twentieth century, tuberculosis ranked among the top three causes of mortality among urban African Americans. Often afflicting an entire family or large segments of a neighborhood, the plague of TB was as mysterious as it was fatal. Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr. examines...
Mary Breckinridge
The Frontier Nursing Service and Rural Health in Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In 1925 Mary Breckinridge (1881-1965) founded the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), a public health organization in eastern Kentucky providing nurses on horseback to reach families who otherwise would not receive health care. Through this public health organization, she introduced nurse-midwifery to...
Women at the Front
Hospital Workers in Civil War America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various social classes, these women served as nurses, administrators, matrons, seamstresses, cooks, laundresses, and custodial workers. Jane E. Schultz provides the first full...
A. P. Hill
Lee's Forgotten General
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
A. P. Hill: Lee's Forgotten General is the first biography of the Confederacy's long-neglected hero whom Lee ranked next to Jackson and Longstreet. Although the name and deeds ot this gallant Virginian conspicuously punctuate the record of every major campaign of the Army of Northern Virginia, the...
Prompt and Utter Destruction, Third Edition
Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman's most controversial decision. Delineating what was known and not known by American leaders at the time, Walker evaluates the options available for ending the...
War at Every Door
Partisan Politics and Guerrilla Violence in East Tennessee, 1860-1869
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
One of the most divided regions of the Confederacy, East Tennessee was the site of fierce Unionist resistance to secession, Confederate rule, and the Southern war effort. It was also the scene of unrelenting 'irregular,' or guerrilla, warfare between Union and Confederate supporters, a conflict that...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
This volume explores the Shenandoah Valley campaign, best known for its role in establishing Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's reputation as the Confederacy's greatest military idol. The authors address questions of military leadership, strategy and tactics, the campaign's political and social...
by Jon D. Mikalson
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
The two great Persian invasions of Greece, in 490 and 480-79 B.C., both repulsed by the Greeks, provide our best opportunity for understanding the interplay of religion and history in ancient Greece. Using the Histories of Herodotus as well as other historical and archaeological sources, Jon Mikalson...
Practical Liberators
Union Officers in the Western Theater during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
During the first fifteen months of the Civil War, the policies and attitudes of Union officers toward emancipation in the western theater were, at best, inconsistent and fraught with internal strains. But after Congress passed the Second Confiscation Act in 1862, army policy became mostly consistent...
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 10: Law and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Volume 10 of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture combines two of the sections from the original edition, adding extensive updates and 53 entirely new articles. In the law section of this volume, 16 longer essays address broad concepts ranging from law schools to family law, from labor relations...
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...