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  • The Gendered Republic

    Reimagining Identity in the New Nation

    Series series Jeffersonian America
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  • Intellectual Manhood

    University, Self, and Society in the Antebellum South

    In this in-depth and detailed history, Timothy J. Williams reveals that antebellum southern higher education did more than train future secessionists and proslavery ideologues. It also fostered a growing world of intellectualism flexible enough to marry the era’s middle-class value system to the honor-bound worldview of the southern gentry. By focusing on the students’ perspective and drawing from ... Leer más

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  • Prison Pens

    Gender, Memory, and Imprisonment in the Writings of Mollie Scollay and Wash Nelson, 1863–1866

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    Prison Pens presents the memoir of a captured Confederate soldier in northern Virginia and the letters he exchanged with his fiancée during the Civil War. Wash Nelson and Mollie Scollay’s letters, as well as Nelson’s own manuscript memoir, provide rare insight into a world of intimacy, despair, loss, and reunion in the Civil War South. The tender voices in the letters combined with Nelson’s ... Leer más

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  • Exascale Scientific Applications

    Scalability and Performance Portability

    Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science
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  • This Republic of Suffering

    Death and the American Civil War (National Book Award Finalist)

    Series series Vintage Civil War Library
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    Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America

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