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Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American CultureHonorable Mention, 2019 MLA Prize for a First Book Sole Finalist Mention for the 2018 Lora Romero First Book Prize, presented by the American Studies Association Exposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute scientific racism. Traversing the...
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A Commonwealth of Hope: The New Deal Response to CrisisDid the New Deal represent the true American way or was it an aberration that would last only until the old order could reassert itself? This original and thoughtful study tells the story of the New Deal, explains its origins, and assesses its legacy....
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The Industrialists: How the National Association of Manufacturers Shaped American CapitalismThe first complete history of US industry's most influential and controversial lobbyist Founded in 1895, the National Association of Manufacturers--NAM--helped make manufacturing the basis of the US economy and a major source of jobs in the twentieth century. The Industrialists traces the history of...
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Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth CenturyBetween 1907 and 1937, thirty-two states legalized the sterilization of more than 63,000 Americans. In Fixing the Poor, Molly Ladd-Taylor tells the story of these state-run eugenic sterilization programs. She focuses on one such program in Minnesota, where surgical sterilization was legally voluntary and...
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Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black LiteratureAt the intersection of social and environmental history there has emerged a rich body of black literary response to natural and agricultural experiences, whether the legacy of enforced agricultural labor or the destruction and displacement brought about by a hurricane. In Cultivation and Catastrophe,...
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A History of Muhlenberg County [Kentucky]This volume pertains principally to the history of Muhlenberg County from its beginning in 1798 to the year 1875, but is extended briefly in some practical aspects to 1910. Mr. Rothert relied heavily on numerous interviews with every "oldest citizen" in the area, and...
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Vital Statistics from 19th Century Tennessee Church Records. Volume IThis is the first of a two-volume series on early Tennessee church records. Births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials from 49 churches and/or church associations in 34 Tennessee counties are set forth in alphabetical order. Included are names and dates from membership lists. Altogether...
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America in the Gilded Age: Third EditionThe third and updated edition of the classic account of America in the latter half of the nineteenth century When the first edition of America in the Gilded Age was published in 1984, it soon acquired the status of a classic, and was widely...
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America in the Age of the Titans: The Progressive Era and World War IDetailing the events of the Progressive Era and World War I (1901-20), America in the Age of the Titans is the only interdisciplinary history covering this period currently available. The book contains the results of research into primary sources an drecent scholarship with an...
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Between Citizens and the State: The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th CenturyThis book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to...
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History of the Russian Revolution"During the first two months of 1917 Russia was still a Romanov monarchy. Eight months later the Bolsheviks stood at the helm. They were little known to anybody when the year began, and their leaders were still under indictment for state treason when they...
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Behold, America: The Entangled History of America First and the American DreamA Smithsonian Magazine Best History Book of 2018 The unknown history of two ideas crucial to the struggle over what America stands for In Behold, America, Sarah Churchwell offers a surprising account of twentieth-century Americans' fierce battle for the nation's soul. It follows the...
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TVA and the Dispossessed: The Resettlement of Population in the Norris Dam AreaThis a comprehensive look at the communities that were relocated by TVA in the wake of electrification and flood control after the Depression.Author: Michael J. McDonaldPublisher: University of Tennessee PressPublished: 06/01/2002Pages: 352Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.08h x 6.10w x 0.87dISBN: 9781572331648
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Contact Strategies: Histories of Native Autonomy in BrazilAround the year 1800, independent Native groups still effectively controlled about half the territory of the Americas. How did they maintain their political autonomy and territorial sovereignty, hundreds of years after the arrival of Europeans? In a study that spans the eighteenth to twentieth...
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A Miscarriage of Justice: Women's Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century BrazilA Miscarriage of Justice examines women's reproductive health in relation to legal and medical policy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After the abolition of slavery in 1888 and the onset of republicanism in 1889, women's reproductive capabilities--their ability to conceive and raise future citizens...
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Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial SegregationWhy did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that all men are created equal? The usual answer is racism, but the reality is more complex and unsettling. In Bind Us Apart, historian Nicholas Guyatt argues that, from...
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The Castle KeepersLeedswick Castle has housed the Alnwick family in the English countryside for generations, despite a family curse determined to destroy their legacy and erase them from history.1870. After a disastrous dinner at the Astor mansion forces her to flee New York in disgrace, socialite...
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U.S. History (paperback, b&w)Printed in b&w.U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics,...
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Forensic ShakespeareForensic Shakespeare illustrates Shakespeare's creative processes by revealing the intellectual materials out of which some of his most famous works were composed. Focusing on the narrative poem Lucrece, on four of his late Elizabethan plays (Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar...
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Under the Cover of MercyCan one nurse on a mission of mercy and rebellion turn the tide of WWI?November 1914The Great War has come to Brussels, and Edith Cavell, Head Nurse at Berkendael Medical Institute, faces an impossible situation. She has sworn an oath to help any who...
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