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Lynchburg and Nelson County, Virginia Wills, Deeds, and Marriages, 1807-1831By: Rev. Bailey Davis, Pub. 1985, Reprinted 2017, 256 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-289-9.The city of Lynchburg sits within Campbell County and was created in 1786 but not incorprated until 1805. While Nelson was created in 1808 from Amherst county. Lynchburg Will Book "A" covers...
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Fever of War: The Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. Army During World War IThe influenza epidemic of 1918 killed more people in one year than the Great War killed in four, sickening at least one quarter of the world's population. In Fever of War, Carol R. Byerly uncovers the startling impact of the 1918 influenza epidemic on...
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Whose American Revolution Was It?: Historians Interpret the FoundingThe meaning of the American Revolution has always been a much-contested question, and asking it is particularly important today: the standard, easily digested narrative puts the Founding Fathers at the head of a unified movement, failing to acknowledge the deep divisions in Revolutionary-era society...
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Sojourner Truth: Slave, Prophet, LegendGoes beyond the myths and legends to reveal new insights into the real life of Sojourner Truth Many Americans have long since forgotten that there ever was slavery along the Hudson River. Yet Sojourner Truth was born a slave near the Hudson River in...
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Broadcasting Freedom: The Cold War Triumph of Radio Free Europe and Radio LibertyAmong America's most unusual and successful weapons during the Cold War were Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. RFE-RL had its origins in a post-war America brimming with confidence and secure in its power. Unlike the Voice of America, which conveyed a distinctly American...
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American Vaudeville as RitualThis study affords an entirely new view of the nature of modern popular entertainment. American vaudeville is here regarded as the carefully elaborated ritual serving the different and paradoxical myth of the new urban folk. It demonstrates that the compulsive myth-making faculty in man...
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Civil Rights in the Gateway to the South: Louisville, Kentucky, 1945-1980Situated on the banks of the Ohio River, Louisville, Kentucky, represents a cultural and geographical intersection of North and South. Throughout its history, Louisville has simultaneously displayed northern and southern characteristics in its race relations. In their struggles against racial injustice in the mid-twentieth...
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God Bless America: Tin Pan Alley Goes to War" After Pearl Harbor, Tin Pan Alley songwriters rushed to write the Great American War Song-an "Over There" for World War II. The most popular songs, however, continued to be romantic ballads, escapist tunes, or novelty songs. To remedy the situation, the federal government...
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Finding Order in Nature: The Naturalist Tradition from Linnaeus to E. O. WilsonSince emerging as a discipline in the middle of the eighteenth century, natural history has been at the heart of the life sciences. It gave rise to the major organizing theory of life-evolution-and continues to be a vital science with impressive practical value. Central...
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Imprisoned Apart: The World War II Correspondence of an Issei Couple"Please don't cry," wrote Iwao Matsushita to his wife Hanaye, telling her he was to be interned for the duration of the war. He was imprisoned in Fort Missoula, Montana, and she was incarcerated at the Minidoka Relocation Center in southwestern Idaho. Their separation...
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Mrs. Russell Sage: Women's Activism and Philanthropy in Gilded Age and Progressive Era AmericaThis is the biography of a ruling-class woman who became a major American philanthropist. The wife of robber-baron Russell Sage (partner of Jay Gould) and in her husband's shadow for 37 years, Olivia Sage took on the mantle of active, reforming womanhood in New...
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Muslims of the Heartland: How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American MidwestUncovers the surprising history of Muslim life in the early American Midwest The American Midwest is often thought of as uniformly white, and shaped exclusively by Christian values. However, this view of the region as an unvarying landscape fails to consider a significant community...
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The War on Drugs: A HistoryA revealing look at the history and legacy of the War on Drugs Fifty years after President Richard Nixon declared a War on Drugs, the United States government has spent over a trillion dollars fighting a losing battle. In recent years, about 1.5 million...
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The Atlantic Realists: Empire and International Political Thought Between Germany and the United StatesIn The Atlantic Realists, intellectual historian Matthew Specter offers a boldly revisionist interpretation of realism, a prevalent stance in post-WWII US foreign policy and public discourse and the dominant international relations theory during the Cold War. Challenging the common view of realism as a...
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The Wandering Army: The Campaigns That Transformed the British Way of WarA compelling history of the British Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries--showing how the military gathered knowledge from campaigns across the globe "Superb analysis."--William Anthony Hay, Wall Street Journal At the outbreak of the War of Austrian Succession in 1742, the British Army's...
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Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless: A Japanese American Diaspora in the PacificFrom the 1920s to the eve of the Pacific War in 1941, more than 50,000 young second-generation Japanese Americans (Nisei) embarked on transpacific journeys to the Japanese Empire, putting an ocean between themselves and pervasive anti-Asian racism in the American West. Born U.S. citizens...
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Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century AmericaOne of the most important books published on slave society, Stolen Childhood focuses on the millions of children and youth enslaved in 19th-century America. This enlarged and revised edition reflects the abundance of new scholarship on slavery that has emerged in the 15 years...
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They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War IShares wrenching accounts of the everyday violence experienced by emancipated African Americans Well after slavery was abolished, its legacy of violence left deep wounds on African Americans' bodies, minds, and lives. For many victims and witnesses of the assaults, rapes, murders, nightrides, lynchings, and...
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The Corpse in the Kitchen: Enclosure, Extraction, and the Afterlives of the Black Hawk WarReassessing the archive of the Black Hawk War, The Corpse in the Kitchen explores relationships between the enclosure of Indigenous land, histories of resource extraction, and the literary culture of settler colonialism. While conventional histories of the Black Hawk War have long treated the...
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Being of Two Minds: Modernist Literary Criticism and Early Modern TextsBeing of Two Minds examines the place that early modern literature held in Modernist literary criticism. For T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and William Empson, the early modern period helps model a literary future. At stake in their engagements across time were ontological questions...
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