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The Adams-Jefferson Letters - The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams מאת Lester J. Cappon An intellectual dialogue of the highest plane achieved in America, the correspondence between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson spanned half a century and embraced government, philosophy, religion, quotidiana, and family griefs and joys. First meeting as delegates to the Continental Congress in 1775, ...

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A Theory of Craft: Function and Aesthetic Expression מאת Howard Risatti What is craft? How is it different from fine art or design? Risatti examines these issues by comparing handmade ceramics, glass, metalwork, weaving, and furniture to painting, sculpture, photography, and machine-made design from Bauhaus to the Memphis Group. He describes craft's unique qualities as ...

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White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 מאת Winthrop D. Jordan New in paperback Jordan's classic and award-winning work on the history of American race relations....

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A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War (Civil War America) מאת Daniel E. Sutherland The American Civil War is famous for epic battles involving massive armies outfitted in blue and gray uniforms, details that characterize conventional warfare. A Savage Conflict is the first work to treat guerrilla warfare as critical to understanding the course and outcome of the Civil War. ...

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American Liberalism: An Interpretation for Our Time (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series) מאת John McGowan Americans live in a liberal democracy. Yet, although democracy is widely touted today, liberalism is scorned by both the right and the left. The United States stands poised between its liberal democratic tradition and the illiberal alternatives of liberalism's critics. John McGowan argues that Ameri...

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Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) מאת Drew Gilpin Faust When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged to the s...

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Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) מאת Susan M. Reverby The forty-year "Tuskegee" Syphilis Study has become the American metaphor for medical racism, government malfeasance, and physician arrogance. The subject of histories, films, rumors, and political slogans, it received an official federal apology from President Bill Clinton in a White House c...

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Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) מאת Anthony E. Kaye In this new interpretation of antebellum slavery, Anthony Kaye offers a vivid portrait of slaves transforming adjoining plantations into slave neighborhoods. He describes men and women opening paths from their owners' plantations to adjacent farms to go courting and take spouses, to work, to run awa...

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Zeal for Zion: Christians, Jews, and the Idea of the Promised Land מאת Shalom L. Goldman The standard histories of Zionism have depicted it almost exclusively as a Jewish political movement, one in which Christians do not appear except as antagonists. In the highly original Zeal for Zion, Shalom Goldman makes the case for a wider and more inclusive history, one that brings the su...

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The Woodwright's Shop: A Practical Guide to Traditional Woodcraft מאת Roy Underhill Roy Underhill brings to woodworking the intimate relationship with wood that craftsmen enjoyed in the days before power tools. Beginning with a guide to trees and tools, The Woodwright's Shop includes chapters on gluts and mauls, shaving horses, rakes, chairs, weaving wood, hay forks, dough b...

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Gender and the Sectional Conflict (The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era) מאת Nina Silber In an insightful exploration of gender relations during the Civil War, Nina Silber compares broad ideological constructions of masculinity and femininity among Northerners and Southerners. She argues that attitudes about gender shaped the experiences of the Civil War's participants, including how so...

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The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South מאת Laura F. Edwards In the half-century following the Revolutionary War, the logic of inequality underwent a profound transformation within the southern legal system. Drawing on extensive archival research in North and South Carolina, Laura F. Edwards illuminates those changes by revealing the importance of localized l...

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In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat (Civil War America) מאת Earl J. Hess The Petersburg campaign began June 15, 1864, with Union attempts to break an improvised line of Confederate field fortifications. By the time the campaign ended on April 2, 1865, two opposing lines of sophisticated and complex earthworks stretched for thirty-five miles, covering not only Petersburg ...

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The Book of Salsa: A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City (Latin America in Translation) מאת César Miguel Rondón Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive history of the music—and the industry that grew up around it, including musicians, performances, styles, movements, and production--was available only in Spanish. T...

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A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction (Civil War America) מאת Mark Wahlgren Summers Reconstruction policy after the Civil War, notes Mark Wahlgren Summers, was shaped not simply by politics, principles, and prejudices. Also at work were fears--often unreasonable fears of renewed civil war and a widespread sense that four years of war had thrown the normal constitutional process so ...

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The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia) מאת Gordon S. Wood One of the half dozen most important books ever written about the American Revolution. New York Times Book ReviewDuring the nearly two decades since its publication, this book has set the pace, furnished benchmarks, and afforded targets for many subsequent studies. If ever a work of history...

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Good Girls, Good Food, Good Fun: The Story of USO Hostesses during World War II (Gender and American Culture) מאת Meghan K. Winchell Throughout World War II, when Saturday nights came around, servicemen and hostesses happily forgot the war for a little while as they danced together in USO clubs, which served as havens of stability in a time of social, moral, and geographic upheaval. Meghan Winchell demonstrates that in addition t...

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The Marines of Montford Point: America's First Black Marines מאת Melton A. McLaurin With an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps—the last all-white branch of the U.S. military—was forced to begin recruiting and enlisting African Americans. The first black recruits received basic training at the segregated Camp Montford Point,...

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If We Could Change the World: Young People and America's Long Struggle for Racial Equality מאת Rebecca de Schweinitz Rebecca de Schweinitz offers a new perspective on the civil rights movement by bringing children and youth to the fore. In the first book to connect young people and shifting ideas about children and youth with the black freedom struggle, de Schweinitz explains how popular ideas about youth and youn...

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Bring Your "A" Game: A Young Athlete's Guide to Mental Toughness מאת Jennifer L. Etnier Mental training is just as important as physical training when it comes to success in sport. And like physical fitness, mental toughness is something that can be taught and learned. Yet many young athletes have not learned the psychological skills needed to develop their best game. This book was wri...

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Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South (Caravan Book) מאת E. Patrick Johnson Giving voice to a population rarely acknowledged in writings about the South, Sweet Tea collects life stories from black gay men who were born, raised, and continue to live in the southern United States. E. Patrick Johnson challenges stereotypes of the South as "backward" or "repressive," sug...

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The Armchair Birder: Discovering the Secret Lives of Familiar Birds מאת John Yow Bird lovers, take heart! While the birding literature is filled with tales of expert observers spotting rare species in exotic locales, John Yow's The Armchair Birder is here to remind us that the most fascinating birds can be the ones perched right outside our windows. In thirty-five engagin...

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Feud: Hatfields, McCoys, and Social Change in Appalachia, 1860-1900 (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) מאת Altina L. Waller The Hatfield-McCoy feud, the entertaining subject of comic strips, popular songs, movies, and television, has long been a part of American folklore and legend. Ironically, the extraordinary endurance of the myth that has grown up around the Hatfields and McCoys has obscured the consideration of the...

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The Scotch-Irish: A Social History מאת James G. Leyburn Dispelling much of what he terms the 'mythology' of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He discusses their life in Scotland, when the essentials of their character and culture were shaped; their removal to Northern Ireland and the action of their residenc...

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Psychology and Selfhood in the Segregated South מאת Anne C. Rose In the American South at the turn of the twentieth century, the legal segregation of the races and psychological sciences focused on selfhood emerged simultaneously. The two developments presented conflicting views of human nature. American psychiatry and psychology were optimistic about personality...

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The Woodwright's Companion: Exploring Traditional Woodcraft מאת Roy Underhill With The Woodwright's Companinon, Roy Underhill continues to demonstrate 'how to start with a tree and an axe and make one thing after another until you have a house and everything in it.' Underhill's latest book features chapters on helves and handles, saws, the search for the whetstone quar...

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Catholic and Feminist: The Surprising History of the American Catholic Feminist Movement מאת Mary J. Henold In 1963, as Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique appeared and civil rights activists marched on Washington, a separate but related social movement emerged among American Catholics, says Mary Henold. Thousands of Catholic feminists—both lay women and women religious—marched, strategized, theo...

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Long, Obstinate, and Bloody: The Battle of Guilford Courthouse מאת Lawrence E. Babits On 15 March 1781, the armies of Nathanael Greene and Lord Charles Cornwallis fought one of the bloodiest and most intense engagements of the American Revolution at the Guilford Courthouse in piedmont North Carolina. Although victorious, Cornwallis declared the conquest of the Carolinas impossible. H...

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Emancipation's Diaspora: Race and Reconstruction in the Upper Midwest (John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) מאת Schwalm, Leslie A. Most studies of emancipation's consequences have focused on the South. Moving the discussion to the North, Leslie Schwalm enriches our understanding of the national impact of the transition from slavery to freedom. Emancipation's Diaspora follows the lives and experiences of thousands of men ...

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African Cherokees in Indian Territory: From Chattel to Citizens (John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) מאת Naylor, Celia E. Forcibly removed from their homes in the late 1830s, Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians brought their African-descended slaves with them along the Trail of Tears and resettled in Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma. Celia E. Naylor vividly charts the experiences of enslaved and free ...

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A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (New Cold War History) מאת Vladislav M. Zubok Western interpretations of the Cold War—both realist and neoconservative—have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness, argues Vladislav Zubok. Explaining the interests, aspirations, illusions, fears, and misperceptions of the Kremlin leaders and Soviet elites,...

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Life along the Inner Coast: A Naturalist's Guide to the Sounds, Inlets, Rivers, and Intracoastal Waterway from Norfolk to Key West מאת Robert L. Lippson For decades, marine scientists Robert and Alice Jane Lippson have traveled the Inner Coast—the rivers, backwaters, sounds, bays, lagoons, and inlets stretching from the Chesapeake Bay to the Florida Keys—aboard their trawler,Odyssey. The culmination of their leisurely journeys, Life al...

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A Revolutionary People At War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783 מאת Charles Royster In this highly acclaimed book, Charles Royster explores the mental processes and emotional crises that Americans faced in their first national war. He ranges imaginatively outside the traditional techniques of analytical historical exposition to build his portrait of how individuals and a populace a...

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African American Visual Arts: From Slavery to the Present מאת Celeste-Marie Bernier In African American Visual Arts Celeste-Marie Bernier introduces readers to the sheer diversity, range, and experimental nature of African American art and artists and considers their relationship to key motifs within black culture and black experience in North America. The book traces the ma...

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One Fantastic Ride: The Inside Story of Carolina Basketball’s 2009 Championship Season מאת Adam Lucas The University of North Carolina won its fifth NCAA basketball championship in 2009. To mark that accomplishment, Adam Lucas, Steve Kirschner, and Matt Bowers provide the only official history that chronicles the players and coaches involved in the championship season. This is more than just a se...

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Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934-1957 מאת Matthew J. Smith In 1934 the republic of Haiti celebrated its 130th anniversary as an independent nation. In that year, too, another sort of Haitian independence occurred, as the United States ended nearly two decades of occupation. In the first comprehensive political history of postoccupation Haiti, Matthew Smith ...

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A Very Mutinous People: The Struggle for North Carolina, 1660-1713 מאת Noeleen McIlvenna Historians have often glorified eighteenth-century Virginia planters' philosophical debates about the meaning of American liberty. But according to Noeleen McIlvenna, the true exemplars of egalitarian political values had fled Virginia's plantation society late in the seventeenth century to create t...

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U. S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth (Civil War America) מאת Joan Waugh At the time of his death, Ulysses S. Grant was the most famous person in America, considered by most citizens to be equal in stature to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Yet today his monuments are rarely visited, his military reputation is overshadowed by that of Robert E. Lee, and his preside...

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Capitalism and Slavery מאת Eric Williams Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these pow...

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Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War (Caravan Book) מאת Gary W. Gallagher More than 60,000 books have been published on the Civil War. Most Americans, though, get their ideas about the war—why it was fought, what was won, what was lost—not from books but from movies, television, and other popular media. In an engaging and accessible survey, renowned Civil War hist...

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The United States and the Making of Modern Greece: History and Power, 1950-1974 מאת James Edward Miller Focusing on one of the most dramatic and controversial periods in modern Greek history and in the history of the Cold War, James Edward Miller provides the first study to employ a wide range of international archives—American, Greek, English, and French—together with foreign language publication...

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Pursuit of Unity: A Political History of the American South מאת Michael Perman Surveying the entire span of southern political history, Michael Perman takes a revealing and wide-ranging approach to the region’s politics. During the nineteenth century, the South experienced nearly continuous political crisis from nullification through secession, war, and Reconstruction, concl...

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Critical Regionalism: Connecting Politics and Culture in the American Landscape מאת Douglas Reichert Powell The idea of "region" in America has often served to isolate places from each other, observes Douglas Reichert Powell. Whether in the nostalgic celebration of folk cultures or the urbane distaste for "hicks," certain regions of the country are identified as static, insular, and culturally disconnecte...

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A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life מאת Eliza Potter Here is the first fully annotated edition of a landmark in early African American literature--Eliza Potter's 1859 autobiography, A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life. Potter was a freeborn black woman who, as a hairdresser, was in a unique position to hear about, receive confidences from, ...

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Stabbed in the Back: Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated Society מאת Nortin M. Hadler Nortin Hadler knows backaches. For more than three decades as a physician and medical researcher, he has studied the experience of low back pain in people who are otherwise healthy. Hadler terms the low back pain that everyone suffers at one time or another "regional back pain." In this book, he add...

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Along Freedom Road: Hyde County, North Carolina, and the Fate of Black Schools in the South מאת David S. Cecelski David Cecelski chronicles one of the most sustained and successful protests of the civil rights movement—the 1968-69 school boycott in Hyde County, North Carolina. For an entire year, the county's black citizens refused to send their children to school in protest of a desegregation plan that requi...

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Sex among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830 מאת Clare A. Lyons Placing sexual culture at the center of power relations in Revolutionary-era Philadelphia, Clare Lyons uncovers a world where runaway wives challenged their husbands' patriarchal rights and where serial and casual sexual relationships were commonplace. Reading popular representations of sex against ...

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The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion (Civil War America) מאת Peter S. Carmichael Challenging the popular conception of Southern youth on the eve of the Civil War as intellectually lazy, violent, and dissipated, Peter S. Carmichael looks closely at the lives of more than one hundred young white men from Virginia's last generation to grow up with the institution of slavery. He fin...

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Without Precedent: The Life of Susie Marshall Sharp מאת Anna R. Hayes The first woman judge in the state of North Carolina and the first woman in the United States to be elected chief justice of a state supreme court, Susie Marshall Sharp (1907-1996) broke new ground for women in the legal profession. When she retired in 1979, she left a legacy burnished by her tirele...

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West Pointers and the Civil War: The Old Army in War and Peace (Civil War America) מאת Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh Most Civil War generals were graduates of West Point, and many of them helped transform the U.S. Army from what was little better than an armed mob that performed poorly during the War of 1812 into the competent fighting force that won the Mexican War. Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh offers an insightful and ...

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Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Politics of Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America (Studies in Social Medicine) מאת Carla Bittel In the late nineteenth century, as Americans debated the "woman question," a battle over the meaning of biology arose in the medical profession. Some medical men claimed that women were naturally weak, that education would make them physically ill, and that women physicians endangered the profession...

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Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation (Civil War America) מאת John Majewski What would separate Union and Confederate countries look like if the South had won the Civil War? In fact, this was something that southern secessionists actively debated. Imagining themselves as nation-builders, they understood the importance of a plan for the economic structure of the Confederacy....

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The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War מאת Victoria E. Bynum Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton Knight, they set up headquarters in the swamps of the Leaf River, where, legend...

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Sounds of Change: A History of FM Broadcasting in America מאת Christopher H. Sterling When it first appeared in the 1930s, FM radio was a technological marvel, providing better sound and nearly eliminating the static that plagued AM stations. It took another forty years, however, for FM's popularity to surpass that of AM. In Sounds of Change, Christopher Sterling and Michael K...

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The Children of Chinatown: Growing Up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850-1920 מאת Wendy Rouse Jorae Revealing the untold stories of a pioneer generation of young Chinese Americans, this book places the children and families of early Chinatown in the middle of efforts to combat American policies of exclusion and segregation.Wendy Jorae challenges long-held notions of early Chinatown as a bachelor c...

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Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans, and the Making of a Democracy (The New Cold War History) מאת Gregg Brazinsky In this ambitious and innovative study Gregg Brazinsky examines American nation building in South Korea during the Cold War. Marshalling a vast array of new American and Korean sources, he explains why South Korea was one of the few postcolonial nations that achieved rapid economic development and d...

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For the Freedom of Her Race: Black Women and Electoral Politics in Illinois, 1877-1932 מאת Lisa G. Materson Focusing on Chicago and downstate Illinois politics during the incredibly oppressive decades between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932—a period that is often described as the nadir of black life in America—Lisa Materson demonstrates the impac...

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Sweet Carolina: Favorite Desserts and Candies from the Old North State מאת Foy Allen Edelman Crisscrossing her home state of North Carolina over the course of six tasty years, Foy Allen Edelman visited families in their own kitchens and communities and discovered a treasure trove of delicacies. Sweet Carolina offers the recipes for more than 220 of these confections, along with their...

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Robert Gwathmey: The Life and Art of a Passionate Observer מאת Michael Kammen American artist Robert Gwathmey (1903-1988) was a leading member of the Social Realist movement that flourished from the 1930s through the 1950s. Like his fellow Social Realists, Gwathmey sought to use his art to expose privilege and pretense, demand social justice, and call for major changes in the...

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The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship: Volume 1, To 1865 מאת Juliet E. K. Walker Despite almost four centuries of black independent self-help enterprises, the agency of African Americans in attempting to forge their own economic liberation through business activities and entrepreneurship has remained noticeably absent from the historical record. Juliet Walker's award-winning ...

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Gender and the Mexican Revolution: Yucatan Women and the Realities of Patriarchy מאת Stephanie J. Smith The state of Yucatan is commonly considered to have been a hotbed of radical feminism during the Mexican Revolution. Challenging this romanticized view, Stephanie Smith examines the revolutionary reforms designed to break women's ties to tradition and religion, as well as the ways in which women sha...

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Lincoln and the Decision for War: The Northern Response to Secession (Civil War America) מאת Russell A. McClintock When Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 prompted several Southern states to secede, the North was sharply divided over how to respond. In this groundbreaking book, the first major study in over fifty years of how the North handled the secession crisis, Russell McClintock follows the decision-making ...

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Making Marriage Work: A History of Marriage and Divorce in the Twentieth-Century United States מאת Kristin Celello By the end of World War I, the skyrocketing divorce rate in the United States had generated a deep-seated anxiety about marriage. This fear drove middle-class couples to seek advice, both professional and popular, in order to strengthen their relationships. In Making Marriage Work, historian ...

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Living with History / Making Social Change מאת Gerda Lerner This stimulating collection of essays in an autobiographical framework spans the period from 1963 to the present. It encompasses Gerda Lerner's theoretical writing and her organizational work in transforming the history profession and in establishing Women's History as a mainstream field. Six of t...

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Gardening with Heirloom Seeds: Tried-and-True Flowers, Fruits, and Vegetables for a New Generation מאת Lynn Coulter Heirloom seeds are more than the promise of next summer's crookneck squash or jewel-colored zinnias. They're living antiques handed down from one generation to the next, a rich inheritance of flavor and beauty from long ago and, often, far away. They are sometimes better adapted to pests and harsh c...

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Free Some Day: The African-American Families of Monticello מאת Lucia Stanton Although Thomas Jefferson, author of the words "All men are created equal," was a lifelong enemy of the institution of slavery, he considered over six hundred human beings his legal possessions over the course of his long life. Building on Stanton's highly acclaimed Slavery at Monticello, thi...

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Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue מאת John Shelton Reed North Carolina is home to the longest continuous barbecue tradition on the North American mainland. Authoritative, spirited, and opinionated (in the best way), Holy Smoke is a passionate exploration of the lore, recipes, traditions, and people who have helped shape North Carolina's signature ...

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The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities (Gender and American Culture) מאת Nicholas L. Syrett Here is the first book to recount the full history of white college fraternities in America. Nicholas Syrett traces these organizations from their days in antebellum all-male schools to the sprawling modern-day college campus, paying special attention to how fraternity brothers have defined masculin...

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Negotiating Paradise: U.S. Tourism and Empire in Twentieth-Century Latin America מאת Dennis Merrill Accounts of U.S. empire building in Latin America typically portray politically and economically powerful North Americans descending on their southerly neighbors to engage in lopsided negotiations. Dennis Merrill's comparative history of U.S. tourism in Latin America in the twentieth century demonst...

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Not a Gentleman's War: An Inside View of Junior Officers in the Vietnam War מאת Ron Milam Wars are not fought by politicians and generals--they are fought by soldiers. Written by a combat veteran of the Vietnam War, Not a Gentleman's War is about such soldiers--a gritty, against-the-grain defense of the much-maligned junior officer. Conventional wisdom holds that the junior office...

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Sex Expression and American Women Writers, 1860-1940 מאת Dale Bauer American women novelists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries registered a call for a new sexual freedom, Dale Bauer contends. By creating a lexicon of "sex expression," many authors explored sexuality as part of a discourse about women's needs rather than confining it to the realm o...

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Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman) מאת MD, Nortin M. Hadler At a time when access to health care in the United States is being widely debated, Nortin Hadler argues that an even more important issue is being overlooked. Although necessary health care should be available to all who need it, he says, the current health-care debate assumes that everyone requires...

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Gender and the Mexican Revolution: Yucatan Women and the Realities of Patriarchy מאת Stephanie J. Smith The state of Yucatan is commonly considered to have been a hotbed of radical feminism during the Mexican Revolution. Challenging this romanticized view, Stephanie Smith examines the revolutionary reforms designed to break women's ties to tradition and religion, as well as the ways in which women sha...

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Bowled Over: Big-Time College Football from the Sixties to the BCS Era מאת Michael Oriard In this compellingly argued and deeply personal book, respected sports historian Michael Oriard--who was himself a former second-team All-American at Notre Dame--explores a wide range of trends that have changed the face of big-time college football and transformed the role of the student-athlete. ...

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Nago Grandma and White Papa: Candomble and the Creation of Afro-Brazilian Identity (Translation of the Books in the Series Latin America in Translation/En Traduccion/Em Traducao) מאת Beatriz Gois Dantas Nago Grandma and White Papa is a signal work in Brazilian anthropology and African diaspora studies originally published in Brazil in 1988. This edition makes Beatriz Gois Dantas's historioethnographic study available to an English-speaking audience for the first time. Dantas compares the for...

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Blue and Gray Diplomacy: A History of Union and Confederate Foreign Relations (The Littlefield History of the Civil War Era) מאת Howard Jones In this examination of Union and Confederate foreign relations during the Civil War from both European and American perspectives, Howard Jones demonstrates that the consequences of the conflict between North and South reached far beyond American soil. Jones explores a number of themes, including t...

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Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil's Northeast מאת Jan Hoffman French Anthropologists widely agree that identities--even ethnic and racial ones--are socially constructed. Less understood are the processes by which social identities are conceived and developed. Legalizing Identities shows how law can successfully serve as the impetus for the transformation of cu...

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Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic: Circulations of Knowledge and Authority in the Iberian and English Imperial Worlds מאת Lisa Voigt Drawing on texts written by and about European and Euro-American captives in a variety of languages and genres, Lisa Voigt explores the role of captivity in the production of knowledge, identity, and authority in the early modern imperial world. The practice of captivity attests to the violence t...

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The Woodwright's Guide: Working Wood with Wedge and Edge מאת Roy Underhill For thirty years, Roy Underhill's PBS program, "The Woodwright's Shop," has brought classic hand-tool craftsmanship to viewers across America. Now, in his seventh book, Roy shows how to engage the mysteries of the splitting wedge and the cutting edge to shape wood from forest to furniture. Beginni...

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Hearthside Cooking: Early American Southern Cuisine Updated for Today's Hearth and Cookstove מאת Nancy Carter Crump Foreword by Sandra Oliver; with more than 250 recipes. For cooks who want to experience a link to culinary history, Hearthside Cooking is a treasure trove of early American delights. First published in 1986, it has become a standard guide for museum interpreters and guides, culinary historian...

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The Poems of Phillis Wheatley מאת Phillis Wheatley The poetry of Americais first published black poet was published before the Revolutionary War and recognized throughout the English-speaking world. Phillis Wheatley was born in Africa, sold as a slave in America, and became a celebrity in Europe. This volume also contains a short memoir of her ...

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iMuslims: Rewiring the House of Islam (Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks) מאת Gary R. Bunt Exploring the increasing impact of the Internet on Muslims around the world, this book sheds new light on the nature of contemporary Islamic discourse, identity, and community. The Internet has profoundly shaped how both Muslims and non-Muslims perceive Islam and how Islamic societies and networks...

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Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign (Civil War America) מאת Peter Cozzens In the spring of 1862, Federal troops under the command of General George B. McClellan launched what was to be a coordinated, two-pronged attack on Richmond in the hope of taking the Confederate capital and bringing a quick end to the Civil War. The Confederate high command tasked Stonewall Jackson ...

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Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859 (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era) מאת Varon, Elizabeth R. In the decades before the Civil War, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten or discredit their opponents. According to Elizabeth Varon, "disunion" was a startling and provocative keyword in Americans' political vocabulary: it connoted the failure of ...

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Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos (Caravan Book) מאת Louis A., Jr. Pérez For more than two hundred often turbulent years, Americans have imagined and described Cuba and its relationship to the United States by conjuring up a variety of striking images—Cuba as a woman, a neighbor, a ripe fruit, a child learning to ride a bicycle. One of the foremost historians of Cuba, ...

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Until the Last Man Comes Home: POWs, MIAs, and the Unending Vietnam War מאת Michael J. Allen Fewer Americans were captured or missing during the Vietnam War than in any major military conflict in U.S. history to that time. Yet despite their small numbers, American POWs inspired an outpouring of concern that slowly eroded support for the war. Michael J. Allen reveals how wartime loss transfo...

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Reinterpreting the Banana Republic: Region and State in Honduras, 1870-1972 מאת Dar?o A. Euraque In this new analysis of Honduran social and political development, Darío Euraque explains why Honduras escaped the pattern of revolution and civil wars suffered by its neighbors Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. Within this comparative framework, he challenges the traditional Banana Republic '...

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The Woodwright's Apprentice: Twenty Favorite Projects From The Woodwright's Shop מאת Roy Underhill For more than twenty years, Roy Underhill has taught the techniques of traditional woodcraft with muscle-powered tools. With his four previous books and his popular PBS series, The Woodwright's Shop, now in its sixteenth season, Roy has inspired millions to take up chisel and plane. The mas...

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Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan מאת J. Samuel Walker In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman's most controversial decision. He delineates what was known and not known by American leaders at the time and evaluates the role of U.S.-Soviet relations and ...

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Lee's Last Retreat: The Flight to Appomattox (Civil War America) מאת William Marvel Few events in Civil War history have generated such deliberate mythmaking as the retreat that ended at Appomattox. As the popular imagination would have it, Robert E. Lee's tattered, starving, but devoted troops found themselves hopelessly surrounded through no fault of their beloved commander, who ...

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The Woodwright's Guide: Working Wood with Wedge and Edge מאת Roy Underhill For thirty years, Roy Underhill's PBS program, "The Woodwright's Shop," has brought classic hand-tool craftsmanship to viewers across America. Now, in his seventh book, Roy shows how to engage the mysteries of the splitting wedge and the cutting edge to shape wood from forest to furniture. Beginni...

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Garcia Marquez: The Man and His Work, Second Edition מאת Gene H. Bell-Villada Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of the most influential writers of our time, with a unique literary creativity rooted in the history of his native Colombia. This is the first book of criticism to consider in detail the totality of Garcia Marquez’s oeuvre.In a beautifully written examination, Gene Be...

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Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia (Civil War America) מאת Aaron Sheehan-Dean In the first comprehensive study of the experience of Virginia soldiers and their families in the Civil War, Aaron Sheehan-Dean captures the inner world of the rank-and-file. Utilizing new statistical evidence and first-person narratives, Sheehan-Dean explores how Virginia soldiers—even those who ...

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Jasmine and Stars: Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran (Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks) מאת Fatemeh Keshavarz In a direct, frank, and intimate exploration of Iranian literature and society, scholar, teacher, and poet Fatemeh Keshavarz challenges popular perceptions of Iran as a society bereft of vitality and joy. Her fresh perspective on present day Iran provides a rare insight into this rich but virtually ...

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Kingdom to Commune: Protestant Pacifist Culture between World War I and the Vietnam Era מאת Patricia Appelbaum American religious pacifism is usually explained in terms of its practitioners' ethical and philosophical commitments. Patricia Appelbaum argues that Protestant pacifism, which constituted the religious center of the large-scale peace movement in the United States after World War I, is best understo...

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Hello Professor: A Black Principal and Professional Leadership in the Segregated South מאת Vanessa Siddle Walker Like many black school principals, Ulysses Byas, who served the Gainesville, Georgia, school system in the 1950s and 1960s, was reverently addressed by community members as "Professor." He kept copious notes and records throughout his career, documenting efforts to improve the education of blacks. T...

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The Joy of Teaching: A Practical Guide for New College Instructors (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman) מאת Peter Filene Gathering concepts and techniques borrowed from outstanding college professors, The Joy of Teaching provides helpful guidance for new instructors developing and teaching their first college courses. Award-winning professor Peter Filene proposes that teaching should not be like a baseball g...

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Exploring the Geology of the Carolinas: A Field Guide to Favorite Places from Chimney Rock to Charleston מאת Kevin G. Stewart How were the Appalachian Mountains formed? Are the barrier islands moving? Where is there gold in the Carolinas? Find answers to these questions and many more in this reader-friendly guide to the geology of North Carolina and South Carolina....

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Creating Colonial Williamsburg: The Restoration of Virginia's Eighteenth-Century Capital, Second Edition מאת Anders Greenspan In Creating Colonial Williamsburg, Anders Greenspan examines the restoration and re-creation of the structures and gardens of Virginia's colonial capital beginning in 1926. The restoration was undertaken by the Rockefeller family, whose aim was to promote an appreciation for eighteenth-centur...

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Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ: The Renewal of Evangelicalism in Postwar America מאת John G. Turner Founded as a local college ministry in 1951, Campus Crusade for Christ has become one of the world's largest evangelical organizations, today boasting an annual budget of more than $500 million. Nondenominational organizations like Campus Crusade account for much of modern evangelicalism's dynamism ...