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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “melissa a walker”
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  • Country Women Cope with Hard Times

    A Collection of Oral Histories

    Edited by Melissa A. Walker ...
    Series series Women's Diaries and Letters of the South
    Rare glimpses into the hardscrabble lives of rural Southern women and a model for oral history practice"It was hard times," French Carpenter Clark recalls, a sentiment unanimously echoed by the sixteen other women who talk about their lives in Country Women Cope with Hard Times. Born between 1890 and 1940 in eastern Tennessee and western South Carolina, these women grew up on farms, in labor camps ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Recovering the Piedmont Past

    Unexplored Moments in Nineteenth-Century Upcountry South Carolina History

    Edited by Melissa A. Walker, Timothy Paul Grady ...
    A window into the social and cultural life of the South Carolina upcountry during the nineteenth centuryThe history of South Carolina's lowcountry has been well documented by historians, but the upcountry—the region of the state north and west of Columbia and the geologic fall line—has only recently begun to receive extensive scholarly attention. The essays in this collection provide a window into ... Read more

    $25.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Recovering the Piedmont Past

    Bridging the Centuries in the South Carolina Upcountry, 1877–1941

    Edited by Andrew H. Myers, Timothy Paul Grady ...
    An anthology exploring the modernization of the South Carolina upcountry and the region's role in creating the New SouthContinuing the theme of unexplored moments introduced in Recovering the Piedmont Past: Unexplored Moments in Nineteenth-Century Upcountry South Carolina History, Timothy P. Grady joins with Andrew H. Myers to edit this second anthology that uncovers the microhistory of this ... Read more

    $25.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Battles of Kings Mountain and Cowpens

    The American Revolution in the Southern Backcountry

    by Melissa A. Walker ...
    Series series Critical Moments in American History
    The American South is so identified with the Civil War that people often forget that the key battles from the final years of the American Revolution were fought in Southern states. The Southern backcountry was the center of the fight for independence, but backcountry devotion to the Patriot cause was slow in coming. Decades of animosity between coastal elites and backcountry settlers who did not ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • An Hour Before Daylight

    Memories Of A Rural Boyhood

    by Jimmy Carter ...
    “An American classic.” —The New YorkerIn An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter, bestselling author of Living Faith and Sources of Strength, recreates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm before the civil rights movement forever changed it and the country.Carter writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside and community in a sharecropping economy, offering an unforgettable portrait of ... Read more

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  • A People's History of the Civil War

    Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom

    by David Williams ...
    "Does for the Civil War period what Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States did for the study of American history in general." — Library JournalHistorian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War as viewed though the eyes of ordinary people—foot soldiers, slaves, women, prisoners of war, draft resisters, Native Americans, and others. Richly illustrated ... Read more

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  • The Dust Bowl

    An Illustrated History

    by Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns ...
    This "riveting" companion to the PBS documentary "clarifies our understanding of the 'worst manmade ecological disaster in American history'" ( Booklist).In this riveting chronicle, Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns capture the profound drama of the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Terrifying photographs of mile-high dust storms, along with firsthand accounts by more than two dozen eyewitnesses, bring ... Read more

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  • Robert E. Lee and Me

    A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

    by Ty Seidule ...
    "Ty Seidule scorches us with the truth and rivets us with his fierce sense of moral urgency." --Ron ChernowIn a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy—and explores why some of this country’s oldest wounds have never healed.Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert ... Read more

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  • Freedom Colonies

    Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow

    by Thad Sitton, James H. Conrad, Richard Orton ...
    Series Book 15 - Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
    A history of independent African American settlements in Texas during the Jim Crow era, featuring historical and contemporary photographs.In the decades following the Civil War, nearly a quarter of African Americans achieved a remarkable victory—they got their own land. While other ex-slaves and many poor whites became trapped in the exploitative sharecropping system, these independence-seeking ... Read more

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  • From Midnight to Dawn

    The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad

    by Jacqueline L. Tobin ...
    From Midnight to Dawn presents compelling portraits of the men and women who established the Underground Railroad and traveled it to find new lives in Canada. Evoking the turmoil and controversies of the time, Tobin illuminates the historic events that forever connected American and Canadian history by giving us the true stories behind well-known figures such as Harriet Tubman and John Brown. She ... Read more

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  • Who Was George Washington Carver?

    by Jim Gigliotti, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by Stephen Marchesi ...
    Series series Who Was?
    Born in 1860s Missouri, nobody expected George Washington Carver to succeed. Slaves were not allowed to be educated. After the Civil War, Carver enrolled in classes and proved to be a star student. He became the first black student at Iowa State Agricultural College and later its first black professor. He went on to the Tuskegee Institute where he specialized in botany (the study of plants) and ... Read more

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  • America Aflame

    How the Civil War Created a Nation

    by Mr David Goldfield ...
    In this spellbinding new history, David Goldfield offers the firstmajor new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. McPherson'sBattle Cry of Freedom. Where past scholars have limned the waras a triumph of freedom, Goldfield sees it as America's greatestfailure: the result of a breakdown caused by the infusion of evangelicalreligion into the public sphere. As the Second GreatAwakening ... Read more

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