The University Of North Carolina: 2383 books
Hello Professor
A Black Principal and Professional Leadership in the Segregated South
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2009
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...
The Company He Keeps
A History of White College Fraternities
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Tracing the full history of traditionally white college fraternities in America from their days in antebellum all-male schools to the sprawling modern-day college campus, Nicholas Syrett reveals how fraternity brothers have defined masculinity over the course of their 180-year history. Based on extensive...
Talk with You Like a Woman
African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
With this book, Cheryl Hicks brings to light the voices and viewpoints of black working-class women, especially southern migrants, who were the subjects of urban and penal reform in early-twentieth-century New York. Hicks compares the ideals of racial uplift and reform programs of middle-class white...
All Bound Up Together
The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, and scholars. All Bound Up Together explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating women...
From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart
A Cultural History of Domestic Advice
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Today's domestic-advice writers--women such as Martha Stewart, Cheryl Mendelson, and B. Smith--are part of a long tradition, notes Sarah Leavitt. Their success rests on a legacy of literature that has focused on the home as an expression of ideals. Here, Leavitt crafts a fascinating genealogy of domestic...
Sympathy and Science
Women Physicians in American Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
When first published in 1985, Sympathy and Science was hailed as a groundbreaking study of women in medicine. It remains the most comprehensive history of American women physicians available. Tracing the participation of women in the medical profession from the colonial period to the present, Regina...
Remaking the American Patient
How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it. Remaking the American Patient explores the consequences of the consumer economy and American medicine having come of...
Make Room for Daddy
The Journey from Waiting Room to Birthing Room
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2009
Using fathers' first-hand accounts from letters, journals, and personal interviews along with hospital records and medical literature, Judith Walzer Leavitt offers a new perspective on the changing role of expectant fathers from the 1940s to the 1980s. She shows how, as men moved first from the hospital...
Kindred by Choice
Germans and American Indians since 1800
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
How do we explain the persistent preoccupation with American Indians in Germany and the staggering numbers of Germans one encounters as visitors to Indian country? As H. Glenn Penny demonstrates, that preoccupation is rooted in an affinity for American Indians that has permeated German cultures for...
Who Controls Public Lands?
Mining, Forestry, and Grazing Policies, 1870-1990
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In this historical and comparative study, Christopher McGrory Klyza explores why land-management policies in mining, forestry, and grazing have followed different paths and explains why public-lands policy in general has remained virtually static over time. According to Klyza, understanding the different...
by Charles K. Wilber
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
This book constructs the model of economic development implicit in the historical experience of the Soviet Union, and the agricultural, industrial, and social strategies followed are shown to fit into a logical and coherent pattern. Those strategies are then evaluated for the positive and negative...
Hidden Spending
The Politics of Federal Credit Programs
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Ippolito examines the least publicized source of our current fiscal troubles--federal credit programs. Since the 1970s these programs (primary components of the federal policy in such areas as housing, agriculture, education, and international affairs) have grown dramatically, but neither the growth...
Thank God They're on Our Side
The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships, 1921-1965
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Despite its avowed commitment to liberalism and democracy internationally, the United States has frequently chosen to back repressive or authoritarian regimes in parts of the world. In this comprehensive examination of American support of right-wing dictatorships, David Schmitz challenges the contention...
by Ralph B. Levering
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In this analysis of the years of greatest American friendship with the Soviet Union, Levering comes to two conclusions. First, cosmopolitan, educated Americans of all classes were much more likely to change their negative attitudes of 1939 to positive ones by 1943 than were the provincial and poorly...