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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 (1907-96) broke new ground for women in the legal profession. This title uncovers the story of a brilliant woman who transcended the limits of her times.

In 1925 Mary Breckinridge (1881-1965) founded the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), a public health organization in eastern Kentucky providing nurses on horseback to reach families who otherwise would not receive health care. This book presents a comprehensive biography of a health-care pioneer.

Offering a comprehensive history of crime and corruption in Cuba, this book challenges the common view that widespread poverty and geographic proximity to the United States were the prime reasons for soaring rates of drug trafficking, smuggling, gambling, and prostitution in the tumultuous decades preceding the Cuban revolution.

Gay men played a prominent role in defining the culture of mid-twentieth-century America. This book offers an analysis of the tension between the nation's dependence on and fear of the cultural influence of gay artists. It places theories about homintern debasing American culture within paranoia of the time that included anticommunism, and racism.

George Mason (1725-92) is often omitted from the small circle of founding fathers that are celebrated, but, in his service to America he was, in the words of Thomas Jefferson, ""of the first order of greatness."" This book provides a comprehensive account of Mason's life at the center of the momentous events of eighteenth-century America.

Taking a material culture approach, this book examines urban domestic buildings from Charleston, South Carolina, to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as well those in English cities and towns, to better understand why people built the houses they did and how their homes informed everyday city life.

From baked beans to apple cider, from clam chowder to pumpkin pie, this culinary history reveals the origins of New England foods and cookery. It chronicles the region's cuisine from the English settlers' first encounter with Indian corn in the 17th century to the nostalgic marketing of New England dishes in the first half of the 20th century.

Exploring the history of Civil War commemorations from both sides of the color line, William Blair places the development of memorial holidays and Emancipation Day celebrations in the context of Reconstruction politics and race relations in the South. His examination demonstrates that the politics of commemoration remain contentious.

Fought on December 13, 1862, the battle of Fredericksburg ended in a stunning defeat for the Union. This text presents an account of this Civil War campaign, placing it within its political, social and military context. It also addresses questions of strategy and material conditions in the camp.

Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives

Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation

Thomas Nast: The Father of Modern Political Cartoons

American Bards: Walt Whitman and Other Unlikely Candidates for National Poet

Reproducing the British Caribbean: Sex, Gender, and Population Politics after Slavery

Pursuit of Unity: A Political History of the American South

Presents an account of marriage and divorce in America in the twentieth century, focusing on the development of the idea of marriage as 'work'. This book describes how professionals and the public worked together to define the nature of marital work throughout the twentieth century.

Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights

Provides readers of the Bible with an important tool for understanding the Scriptures. Based on the theory and practice of Greek rhetoric in the New Testament, George Kennedy's approach acknowledges that New Testament writers wrote to persuade an audience of the truth of their messages. These writers employed rhetorical conventions that were widely known and imitated in the society of the times.

What America Read: Taste, Class, and the Novel, 1920-1960

A study of the 1863 battle that cut off a crucial river port and rail depot for the South and split the Confederate nation, providing a turning point in the Civil War.

Cuba's geographic proximity to the United States and its centrality to US imperial designs following the War of 1898 led to the creation of a unique relationship between Afro-descended populations in the two countries. Drawing on archival sources in both countries, the author traces four encounters between Afro-Cubans and African Americans.

Challenging the popular conception of Southern youth on the eve of the Civil War as intellectually lazy, violent, and dissipated, this book looks at the lives of more than one hundred young white men from Virginia's last generation to grow up with the institution of slavery.

Charts the experiences of enslaved and free African Cherokees from the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma's entry into the Union in 1907. This book explores how slaves connected with Indian communities not only through Indian customs - language, clothing, and food - but also through bonds of kinship.

Shows how the varying histories and cultures of the nations of Latin America have influenced the course of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. This work demonstrates that a disease spread in an intimate manner is profoundly shaped by impersonal forces. It explains that in Latin America the AIDS pandemic has fractured into a series of subepidemics.

Between February 1864 and April 1865, 41,000 Union prisoners of war were taken to the stockade at Anderson Station, Georgia, where nearly 13,000 of them died. The author contends that virulent disease and severe shortages of vegetables, medical supplies, and other necessities combined to create a crisis beyond the captors' control.

Powerfully contradicts the assumption that the SS forced slavery upon the German economy, demonstrating that instead industrialists actively sought out the Business Administration Main Office as a valued partner in the war economy. Moreover, the book reveals the ideological dedication, even fanatical devotion, to slavery and genocide of the bureaucrats who oversaw Holocaust operations.

Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the study of space, social relations, gender, and power in the Old South, Stephanie Camp examines the everyday containment and movement of enslaved men and, especially, enslaved women.

This study examines how cultural works contribute to social debates, how a particular representational form emerges out of a specific historical epoch, and how some intellectuals meditate on the issue of historical responsibility within contemporary American society.

An interpretation of the history of inheritance among the English gentry and aristocracy. The text argues that one of the principal and determinative features of upper-class inheritance was the virtual exclusion of females from land holding.