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Death is easy to locate in the archives of early America. Grief is not so easily pinned down. Yet it was a near constant companion for the men and women that settled in what is now New England. Their...

This is a candid reexamination of the work of Samuel Richardson, presenting a just view of one of the most important figures in the history of English prose fiction and eighteenth-century culture...

J Finley argues that through humor, and particularly sass, comedy functions as a medium for Black women to articulate and redress cultural, social, and political marginalization. Finley challenges...

Conventional wisdom holds that freedmen's education was largely the work of privileged, single white northern women motivated by evangelical beliefs and abolitionism. Backed by pathbreaking research,...

In the decades before the Civil War, Charleston, South Carolina, enjoyed recognition as the center of scientific activity in the South. By 1850, only three other cities in the United...

This is the untold story of Dr. J. D. Harris, an African American physician whose life and career straddled enormous changes for Black professionals and the practice of medicine. Born in...

Focusing on six major Supreme Court cases during the 1960s and 1970s, Marc Stein examines the generally liberal rulings on birth control, abortion, interracial marriage, and obscenity in Griswold,...

It is impossible to separate histories of sexual violence and the enslavement of Black women in the antebellum South. Rape permeated the lives of all who existed in that system: Black and white, male...

American women's basketball has reached new peaks of interest and popularity, thanks to spellbinding athletes, exhilarating games, and a vibrant, empowered vision of womanhood. Shattering the Glass...

Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson's Valley CampaignAuthor: Peter CozzensPublisher: University of North Carolina PressPublication Date: Feb 01, 2013Number of Pages: 640 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

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...

Shaking up New York and national politics by becoming the first African American congresswoman and, later, the first Black major-party presidential candidate, Shirley Chisholm left an indelible mark...

The Jargon Society, a boundary-pushing publisher of poetry and experimental writing, was founded by Jonathan Williams (1929-2008) in 1951. Jargon quickly gained a reputation as the home of the poetic...

The Jargon Society, a boundary-pushing publisher of poetry and experimental writing, was founded by Jonathan Williams (1929-2008) in 1951. Jargon quickly gained a reputation as the home of the poetic...

The author discusses important questions of social differentiation and relates them to the problems of democracy. Following his belief in the essential unity of the social sciences, he has drawn upon...

This book, combining as it does the method of the broad survey with the careful consideration of detailed fact, presents, from a lay point of view, a complete synthesis of the varied aspects of...

The distinguished Kansas editor and author gives a vivid picture of the three major cycles of our country's progress -- the revolutionary cycle, the antislavery cycle, and the populist cycle -- each...

One-time city editor of the old Raleigh Observer, the author's knowledge of men and affairs in his native state is extensive and important. Pervading this book is the charm of reminiscences of...

In this collection, a southerner of high scholarly distinction and wide personal influence, discourses wisely and charmingly on the Americanism of American literature, on Edgar Allan Poe, Joel...

This is a collection of characterizations of such significant southern leaders as Woodrow Wilson, Charles Aycock, Joel Chandler Harris, Booker T. Washington, and others. They were leaders whose...

This cultural history of the American-Israeli relationship, beginning in the nineteenth century and going through 1947, when the state of Israel was established, to the present puts a focus on...

For many years the legal status of the state taxation of banks, never too definitive, has been most precarious. This study traces the evolution and implications of the legal issues that revolve...

Stories I Lived to Tell is more than a selection of stories from revered mountain storyteller Gary Carden--it is a testimony of a distinguished culture, sense of place, and spirit of community that...

In this collection the editor offers a picture of the South as that region has been portrayed by writers of short fiction. An omnibus volume of twenty-seven famous tales, it tells of plantation life...

The so-called New Negroes of the period between World Wars I and II embodied a new sense of racial pride and upward mobility for the race. Many of them thought that relationships between spouses...

Eugene England (1933-2001)--one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals in modern Mormonism--lived in the crossfire between religious tradition and reform. This first serious...

This is a survey of contemporary theories of aesthetic. The author discusses the doctrines of Bergson, Bosanquet, Croce, Lalo, and Santayana with so acute a sense of criticism that the chapters...

Perhaps there is no field in which accurate information and dependable direction are more eagerly sought by old and new officials, legislative bodies, civic and social agencies, and citizens in...

In 1830 Richard Walpole Cogdell, a husband, father, and bank clerk in Charleston, South Carolina, purchased a fifteen-year-old enslaved girl, Sarah Martha Sanders. Before her death in 1850, she bore...

This lively collection of 34 of the best history walks in North Carolina highlights the richness and diversity of the state's history, from the time of its first settlement to the present. Veteran...