Randall M. Miller Harry S. Stout Charles Reagan Wilson
The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished, address the little considered question of the role played by religion in the American Civil War. The authors show that religion, understood in its broadest context as a culture and community of faith, was found wherever the war was found. Comprising essays by such scholars as Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Drew Gilpin Faust, Mark Noll, Reid Mitchell, Harry Stout, and Bertram Wyatt-Brown, and featuring an afterword by James McPherson, this collection marks the first step towards uncovering this crucial yet neglected aspect of American...
The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished, address the little considered question of the role played by religion in the American C...
The Keystone State, so nicknamed because it was geographically situated in the middle of the thirteen original colonies and played a crucial role in the founding of the United States, has remained at the heart of American history. Created partly as a safe haven for people from all walks of life, Pennsylvania is today the home of diverse cultures, religions, ethnic groups, social classes, and occupations. Many ideas, institutions, and interests that were first formed or tested in Pennsylvania spread across America and beyond, and continue to inform American culture, society, and politics....
The Keystone State, so nicknamed because it was geographically situated in the middle of the thirteen original colonies and played a crucial role i...
In 1988 Greenwood Press published the "Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery" to wide acclaim by the library community and scholars in the field. The "Dictionary" was issued at a time when the study of slavery commanded a central place in American historical thinking and, increasingly, in a host of other disciplines as well. Interest in slavery has not abated. Yet, despite a growing sophistication in methodology and complexity of analysis, the basic contours of the study of slavery remain much the same as when the "Dictionary" first appeared. To take the latest scholarship into account, the...
In 1988 Greenwood Press published the "Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery" to wide acclaim by the library community and scholars in the field. The...
Against the Tide is a collection of in-depth biographical essays on the most important women reformers in American history. This reader will be useful in any history course that deals with the important contributions made by women to the development of our government and society from the early republic to today. The volume combines scholarly vitality with readability, making it appropriate for all levels of students.
Against the Tide is a collection of in-depth biographical essays on the most important women reformers in American history. This reader will...
"Origins and Development of the Arab-Israeli Conflict" is an accessible, engagingly written analysis of that conflict, discussing its most significant issues and events from its onset until today. Narrative chapters, written from an objective viewpoint, explain the topics in an easily understandable manner. Whether the reader is a secondary or college student with limited knowledge of the Arab-Israeli conflict, or a scholar in the field, he or she will find the work beneficial.
After an introductory chapter providing a historical overview of the Arab-Israeli conflict, chapters go...
"Origins and Development of the Arab-Israeli Conflict" is an accessible, engagingly written analysis of that conflict, discussing its most signific...
The Birth of the Grand Old Party The Republicans' First Generation Edited by Robert F. Engs and Randall M. Miller. Afterword by James M. McPherson "The essays cogently summarize the latest scholarship and suggest new scholarly directions. The book includes a fine narrative overview by the editors as well as a brief afterword by James McPherson that highlights the major historiographical fautlines underlying this complex--and, in years past, frequently heated--subject. . . . Handsome, thoughtful, and accessible, this book deserves a place on everyone's bookshelf."--American Historical...
The Birth of the Grand Old Party The Republicans' First Generation Edited by Robert F. Engs and Randall M. Miller. Afterword by James M. McPherson "Th...
" This] product of meticulous attention to historical detail plus a grasp of American history that enables the author to discern patterns from a mass of information . . . should permanently destroy the notion of the South as a 19th-century monolith."--Journal of American History
"An important and insightful book on a neglected subject in American political and social history. It adds not only to our understanding of the other South, but also contributes to our awareness of the other America which the 19th-century South represented."--Political Science...
" This] product of meticulous attention to historical detail plus a grasp of American history that enables the author to discern patterns from a ma...
Wayne Lee examines how a scoiety shapes, directs, restrains, understands, and reacts to violence, with particular attention to riot and war in 18th-century North Carolina.
Wayne Lee examines how a scoiety shapes, directs, restrains, understands, and reacts to violence, with particular attention to riot and war in 18th-ce...
"Highly illuminating and engaging in its weaving of personal narratives through the history of natural resource policy and the emergence of networks of environmental activists. One of the most detailed extended descriptions of grassroots environmental political mobilization I have seen. . . . Essential reading for environmental activists and scholars alike."--Kenneth Gould, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York
"A useful, timely, and much needed contribution to environmental history, environmental sociology, and social movements studies, with informative and solidly researched...
"Highly illuminating and engaging in its weaving of personal narratives through the history of natural resource policy and the emergence of network...
In May 1862, hundreds of African-Americans freed themselves in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta and in the process destroyed the South's fundamental structure of power - the plantation household. Yet at the moment of freedom, southerners did not discard what they knew. Instead, blacks and whites, men and women constructed competing visions of freedom based on their particular understanding of household authority. General Freedoms explores this first generation of freedom and presents an intimate history of the political consciousness of the franchised and disenfranchised during the Civil War and...
In May 1862, hundreds of African-Americans freed themselves in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta and in the process destroyed the South's fundamental struct...
