Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689864485
Category : Diaries
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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This groundbreaking book collects black women's personal recollections of their public and private lives during the period of legal segregation in the American South. Using first-person narratives, collected through oral history interviews, the book emphasizes women's role in their families and communities, treating women as important actors in the economic, social, cultural, and political life of the segregated South. By focusing on the commonalities of women's experiences, as well as the ways that women's lives differed from the experiences of southern black men, Living with Jim Crow analyzes the interlocking forces of racism and sexism .
Author: Robert W. Merry
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 074329744X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Explores the one-term presidency of James K. Polk, during which the United States extended its territory across the continent by threatening England and manufacturing a controversial war with Mexico that Abraham Lincoln opposed.
Author: Marshall Sprague
Publisher: Swallow Press
ISBN: 9780804009447
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Recounts how explorers discovered the Mississippi region and discusses the political, economic, and social factors that led to the Louisiana Purchase.
Author: Maxim Loskutoff
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393635597
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 133
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An NPR Best Book of 2018 "Devastating.…Grows increasingly bizarre and haunting until it’s left an indelible mark." —Janet Maslin, New York Times In an isolated region of Idaho, Montana, and eastern Oregon, an armed occupation of a wildlife refuge escalates into civil war. Against this backdrop, Maxim Loskutoff shatters the myths of the West: a lonesome trapper falls in love with a bear; a newly married woman hatches a plot to murder a tree; and an unemployed millworker joins a militia after returning home. Written with “blade-sharp prose” (Electric Literature), the twelve stories in this debut collection expose the simmering rage and resentments of small-town America “with extraordinary eloquence and compassion” (National Book Review).
Author: Light Townsend Cummins
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623497418
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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To the Vast and Beautiful Land gathers eleven essays written by Light Townsend Cummins, a foremost authority on Texas and Louisiana during the Spanish colonial era, and traces the arc of the author’s career over a quarter of a century. Each essay includes a new introduction linking the original article to current scholarship and forms the connective tissue for the volume. A new bibliography updates and supplements the sources cited in the essays. From the “enduring community” of Anglo-American settlers in colonial Natchez to the Gálvez family along the Gulf Coast and their participation in the American Revolution, Cummins shows that mercantile commerce and land acquisition went hand-in-hand as dual motivations for the migration of English-speakers into Louisiana and Texas. Mercantile trade dominated by Anglo-Americans increasingly tied the Mississippi valley and western Gulf Coast to the English-speaking ports of the Atlantic world bridging two centuries, shifting it away from earlier French and Spanish commercial patterns. As a result, Anglo-Americans moved to the region as residents and secured land from Spanish authorities, who often welcomed them with favorable settlement policies. This steady flow of settlement set the stage for families such as the Austins—first Moses and later his son Stephen—to take root and further “Anglocize” a colonial region. Taken together, To the Vast and Beautiful Land makes a new contribution to the growing literature on the history of the Spanish borderlands in North America.
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Category : Health resorts
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 882
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1640
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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