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  • South Carolina Women

    Their Lives and Times, Volume 2

    by Marjorie Spruill, Marjorie Spruill, Barbara Bellows, Ronald Butchart, Michele Coffey, James Farmer Jr., Willard B. Gatewood Jr., Belinda Gergel, Darlene Hine, Joan Johnson, Valinda Littlefield0, Amy McCandless1, Giselle Roberts2, Martha Severens3, Stephanie E. Yuhl4, Larry Watson5 ...
    The biographical essays in this volume provide new insights into the various ways that South Carolina women asserted themselves in their state and illuminate the tension between tradition and change that defined the South from the Civil War through the Progressive Era. As old rules—including gender conventions that severely constrained southern women—were dramatically bent if not broken, these ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • South Carolina Women

    Their Lives and Times, Volume 2

    by Marjorie Julian Spruill, Valinda W. Littlefield, Joan Marie Johnson, Barbara Bellows, Dr. Ronald E. Butchart, Michele Grigsby Coffey, James Farmer Jr., Willard B. Gatewood Jr.0, Belinda Gergel1, Darlene Hine2, Amy McCandless3, Giselle Roberts4, Martha Severens5, Stephanie E. Yuhl6, Larry Watson7 ...
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    The biographical essays in this volume provide new insights into the various ways that South Carolina women asserted themselves in their state and illuminate the tension between tradition and change that defined the South from the Civil War through the Progressive Era. As old rules—including gender conventions that severely constrained southern women—were dramatically bent if not broken, these ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Stolen Childhood

    Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America

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  • The Shoemaker and the Tea Party

    Memory and the American Revolution

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    George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker who participated in such key events of the American Revolution as the Boston Massacre and the Tea Party, might have been lost to history if not for his longevity and the historical mood of the 1830's. When the Tea Party became a leading symbol of the Revolutionary ear fifty years after the actual event, this 'common man' in his nineties was ... Read more

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  • Slavery and Public History

    The Tough Stuff of American Memory

    by Ira Berlin, David W. Blight, Gary B. Nash ...
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  • Ar'n't I a Woman?

    Female Slaves in the Plantation South

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    "One of those rare books that quickly became the standard work in its field." —Anne Firor Scott, Duke UniversityLiving with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society.This revised edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the ... Read more

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  • Vanguard

    How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All

    by Martha S. Jones ...
    **An essential history of African American women’s pursuit of political power—and how it transformed America“Elegant and expansive.” —New York TimesWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for HistoryNamed a Best Book of the Year by Ms. • Time • Foreign Affairs • Smithsonian**In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Martha S. Jones offers a new history of African American women’s political lives in Ame. ... Read more

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  • A Shining Thread of Hope

    The History of Black Women in America

    by Darlene Clark Hine, Kathleen Thompson ...
    At the greatest moments and in the cruelest times, black women have been a crucial part of America's history. Now, the inspiring history of black women in America is explored in vivid detail by two leaders in the fields of African American and women's history.A Shining Thread of Hope chronicles the lives of black women from indentured servitude in the early American colonies to the cruelty of ... Read more

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    The United States, 1800-1860

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  • Making Whiteness

    The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940

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    Making Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such a crucial, embattled--and distorting--component of twentieth-century American identity. In intricately textured detail and with passionately mastered analysis, Grace Elizabeth Hale shows how, when faced with the active citizenship of their ex-slaves after the Civil War, white southerners re ... Read more

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  • Trouble in Mind

    Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow

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    A searing history of life under Jim Crow that recalls the bloodiest and most repressive period in the history of race relations in the United States—and the painful record of discrimination that haunts us to this day. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Been in the Storm So Long."The stain of Jim Crow runs deep in 20th-century America.... Its effects remain the nation's most pressing ... Read more

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