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Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965Historians have long agreed that women--black and white--were instrumental in shaping the civil rights movement. Until recently, though, such claims have not been supported by easily accessed texts of speeches and addresses. With this first-of-its-kind anthology, Davis W. Houck and David E. Dixon present...
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Public Parks, Private Gardens: Paris to ProvenceMasterworks by great Romantic, Impressionist, and early modern artists are presented in relationship to the 19th-century horticultural revolution that transformed the landscape of France The spectacular transformation of Paris during the 19th century into a city of tree-lined boulevards and public parks both redesigned...
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Obituaries in American Culture"Within the short period of a year, she was a bride, a beloved wife and companion, a mother, a corpse," reported The National Intelligencer on the death of Elizabeth Buchanan in 1838. Such obituaries fascinate us. Few of us realize that, when examined historically,...
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Remembering Dixie: The Battle to Control Historical Memory in Natchez, Mississippi, 1865-1941Nearly seventy years after the Civil War, Natchez, Mississippi, sold itself to Depression-era tourists as a place "Where the Old South Still Lives." Tourists flocked to view the town's decaying antebellum mansions, hoopskirted hostesses, and a pageant saturated in sentimental Lost Cause imagery. In...
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Life Between the Levees: America's Riverboat PilotsLife Between the Levees is a chronicle of first-person reflections and folklore from pilots who have dedicated their lives to the river. The stories are as diverse as the storytellers themselves, and the volume is full of drama, suspense, and a way of life...
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Southern Ladies and Suffragists: Julia Ward Howe and Women's Rights at the 1884 New Orleans World's FairWomen from all over the country came to New Orleans in 1884 for the Woman's Department of the Cotton Centennial Exposition, that portion of the World's Fair exhibition devoted to the celebration of women's affairs and industry. Their conversations and interactions played out as...
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Body and Soul: A Sympathetic History of American SpiritualismA product of the "spiritual hothouse" of the Second Great Awakening, Spiritualism became the fastest growing religion in the nation during the 1850s, and one of the principal responses to the widespread perception that American society was descending into atomistic particularity. InBody and Soul,...
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The Fruits and Fruit Trees of Monticello: Thomas Jefferson and the Origins of American HorticultureLavishly illustrated, Peter Hatch's The Fruits and Fruit Trees of Monticello is not only a detailed history of Jefferson's gardens and their re-creation but a virtual encyclopedia of early American pomology.Author: Peter J. HatchPublisher: University of Virginia PressPublished: 05/11/2007Pages: 222Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.73lbsSize: 9.95h...
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Old West in Fact and Film: History Versus HollywoodFor many years, movie audiences have carried on a love affair with the American West, believing Westerns are escapist entertainment of the best kind, harkening back to the days of the frontier. This work compares the reality of the Old West to its portrayal...
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Mummies in Nineteenth Century America: Ancient Egyptians as ArtifactsThis work examines Egyptian mummies as artifacts in pre-1900 America: how they got here, what happened to them, and how they were perceived by the public and by archaeologists. Collected newspaper accounts and other documents reveal the progression of American interest in mummies as...
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Debating the 1960s: Liberal, Conservative, and Radical PerspectivesThe conventional interpretation of the 1960s emphasizes how liberal, even radical, the decade was. It was, after all, the age of mass protests against the Vietnam War and social movements on behalf of civil rights and women's rights. It was also an era when...
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American Higher Education Since World War II: A HistoryA masterful history of the postwar transformation of American higher education American higher education is nearly four centuries old. But in the decades after World War II, as government and social support surged and enrollments exploded, the role of colleges and universities in American...
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Titanic: Triumph and TragedyContinuing interest in the ill-fated vessel has been heightened in recent years by the dramatic events including the discovery of the wreck, new speculation on the Californian's failure to rescue the Titanic, and the recovery of artifacts from the disaster site. All are chronicled...
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The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945The vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced--and helped to win--the most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 million lives were lost....
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V. S. Naipaul's Journeys: From Periphery to CenterThe author of more than thirty books of fiction and nonfiction and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, V. S. Naipaul (1932-2018) is one of the most acclaimed authors of the twentieth century. He is also one of the most controversial. Before settling...
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Threatening Property: Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow NeighborhoodsWhite supremacists determined what African Americans could do and where they could go in the Jim Crow South, but they were less successful in deciding where black people could live because different groups of white supremacists did not agree on the question of residential...
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Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American CultureIn the mid-1800s, a utopian movement to rehabilitate the insane resulted in a wave of publicly funded asylums--many of which became unexpected centers of cultural activity. Housed in magnificent structures with lush grounds, patients participated in theatrical programs, debating societies, literary journals, schools, and...
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Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940In this fascinating history, Chad Heap reveals that the reality of slumming was far more widespread--and important--than nostalgia-tinged recollections would lead us to believe. From its appearance as a "fashionable dissipation" centered on the immigrant and working-class districts of 1880s New York through its...
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Race, Culture, and the Revolt of the Black Athlete: The 1968 Olympic Protests and Their AftermathEver since 1968 a single iconic image of race in American sport has remained indelibly etched on our collective memory: sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos accepting medals at the Mexico City Olympics with their black-gloved fists raised and heads bowed. But what inspired...
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Modern Conspiracies in America: Separating Fact from Fiction... an excellent guide to logic and credibility for all who are curious about this complex and urgent subject. Booklist Starred Review America is awash with alleged conspiracies. It seems like today, no one with a cell phone escapes the vortex of skepticism, cynicism,...
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