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Remaking Respectability
African American Women in Interwar Detroit
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
In the early decades of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of African Americans arrived at Detroit's Michigan Central Station, part of the Great Migration of blacks who left the South seeking improved economic and political conditions in the urban North. The most visible of these migrants have...
The Roots of Justice
Crime and Punishment in Alameda County, California, 1870-1910
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Focusing on a single county at a time when the population grew from 24,000 to 246,000, the authors combine statistical analysis of documentary sources, contemporary newspaper accounts, and exploration in criminal case files to give a detailed reconstruction of the operations of the county's entire...
The Dying City
Postwar New York and the Ideology of Fear
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
In this eye-opening cultural history, Brian Tochterman examines competing narratives that shaped post–World War II New York City. As a sense of crisis rose in American cities during the 1960s and 1970s, a period defined by suburban growth and deindustrialization, no city was viewed as in its death...
Writing Indian Nations
Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827-1863
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
In the early years of the republic, the United States government negotiated with Indian nations because it could not afford protracted wars politically, militarily, or economically. Maureen Konkle argues that by depending on treaties, which rest on the equal standing of all signatories, Europeans...
Journal of the Civil War Era
Fall 2012 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The Journal of the Civil War Era
Volume 2, Number 3
September 2012
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Articles
Robert Fortenbaugh Memorial Lecture
Joan Waugh
"I Only Knew What Was in My Mind": Ulysses S. Grant and the Meaning of Appomattox
Patrick Kelly
The North...
The Trouble with Minna
A Case of Slavery and Emancipation in the Antebellum North
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
In this intriguing book, Hendrik Hartog uses a forgotten 1840 case to explore the regime of gradual emancipation that took place in New Jersey over the first half of the nineteenth century. In Minna's case, white people fought over who would pay for the costs of caring for a dependent, apparently...
Migrating Faith
Pentecostalism in the United States and Mexico in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Daniel Ramirez's history of twentieth-century Pentecostalism in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands begins in Los Angeles in 1906 with the eruption of the Azusa Street Revival. The Pentecostal phenomenon--characterized by ecstatic spiritual practices that included speaking in tongues, perceptions of miracles,...
Sufis and Saints' Bodies
Mysticism, Corporeality, and Sacred Power in Islam
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Islam is often described as abstract, ascetic, and uniquely disengaged from the human body. Scott Kugle refutes this assertion in the first full study of Islamic mysticism as it relates to the human body. Examining Sufi conceptions of the body in religious writings from the late fifteenth through...
The Worlds the Shawnees Made
Migration and Violence in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
In 1779, Shawnees from Chillicothe, a community in the Ohio country, told the British, "We have always been the frontier." Their statement challenges an oft-held belief that American Indians derive their unique identities from longstanding ties to native lands. By tracking Shawnee people...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
In the field of American studies, attention is shifting to the long history of U.S. engagement with the Middle East, especially in the aftermath of war in Iraq and in the context of recent Arab uprisings in protest against economic inequality, social discrimination, and political repression. Here,...
May We Forever Stand
A History of the Black National Anthem
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
The twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history. May We Forever Stand tells an essential part of that story. With lyrics penned by James Weldon Johnson and music composed by his brother Rosamond, "Lift Every Voice and Sing" was embraced almost immediately...
Gay on God's Campus
Mobilizing for LGBT Equality at Christian Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Although the LGBT movement has made rapid gains in the United States, LGBT people continue to face discrimination in faith communities. In this book, sociologist Jonathan S. Coley documents why and how student activists mobilize for greater inclusion at Christian colleges and universities. Drawing...
Staging Depth
Eugene O'neill and the Politics of Psychological Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Until now, Eugene O'Neill's psychological dramas have been analyzed mainly by critics who relied on obvious parallels between O'Neill's life, his family, and his plays. In this theoretically expansive and interdisciplinary book, Joel Pfister reassesses what was at stake ideologically in O'Neill's...
by Timothy Dow Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
All autobiographers are unreliable narrators. Yet what a writer chooses to misrepresent is as telling -- perhaps even more so -- as what really happened. Timothy Adams believes that autobiography is an attempt to reconcile one's life with one's self, and he argues in this book that autobiography should...