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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...
by Matthew Mason
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
Giving close consideration to previously neglected debates, Matthew Mason challenges the common contention that slavery held little political significance in America until the Missouri Crisis of 1819. Mason demonstrates that slavery and politics were enmeshed in the creation of the nation, and in...
We Mean to Be Counted
White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Over the past two decades, historians have successfully disputed
the notion that American women remained wholly outside the realm of politics until the early twentieth century. Still, a consensus has prevailed that, unlike their Northern counterparts, women of the antebellum South were largely excluded...
Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism
College, Community, and the Fight for Freedom and Equality in Antebellum America
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
By exploring the role of Oberlin--the college and the community--in fighting against slavery and for social equality, J. Brent Morris establishes this "hotbed of abolitionism" as the core of the antislavery movement in the West and as one of the most influential reform groups in antebellum...
The Stormy Present
Conservatism and the Problem of Slavery in Northern Politics, 1846–1865
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
In this engaging and nuanced political history of Northern communities in the Civil War era, Adam I. P. Smith offers a new interpretation of the familiar story of the path to war and ultimate victory. Smith looks beyond the political divisions between abolitionist Republicans and Copperhead Democrats...
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,...
Abolitionists Remember
Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
In Abolitionists Remember, Julie Roy Jeffrey illuminates a second, little-noted antislavery struggle as abolitionists in the postwar period attempted to counter the nation's growing inclination to forget why the war was fought, what slavery was really like, and why the abolitionist cause was so important.
In...
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...
City of Second Sight
Nineteenth-Century Boston and the Making of American Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
In the decades before the U.S. Civil War, the city of Boston evolved from a dilapidated, haphazardly planned, and architecturally stagnant provincial town into a booming and visually impressive metropolis. In an effort to remake Boston into the "Athens of America," neighborhoods were leveled,...
Blood and Irony
Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
During the Civil War, its devastating aftermath, and the decades following, many southern white women turned to writing as a way to make sense of their experiences. Combining varied historical and literary sources, Sarah Gardner argues that women served as guardians of the collective memory of the...
by Lyde Cullen Sizer
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
This volume explores the lives and works of nine Northern women who wrote during the Civil War period, examining the ways in which, through their writing, they engaged in the national debates of the time. Lyde Sizer shows that from the 1850 publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin through Reconstruction,...
Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon
Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A.
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
The notorious 1942 "Sleepy Lagoon" murder trial in Los Angeles concluded with the conviction of seventeen young Mexican American men for the alleged gang slaying of fellow youth Jose Diaz. Just five months later, the so-called Zoot Suit Riot erupted, as white soldiers in the city attacked...