Sallie Stockard and the Adversities of an Educated Woman of the New South, Paperback - Carole W. Troxler

Reducere. Sallie Stockard (1869-1963), the first female graduate of the University of North Carolina, published three county histories between 1900 and 1904....

In this new study, Dr. Carole Troxler steps back more than two decades before the pivotal Battle of Alamance (May 16, 1771) to examine the issues a...

Reducere. In 1901, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, sent an expedition to the German colony of Togo in West Africa, with the purpose ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jeannie WhayneIn Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South Jeannie Whayne employs the...

Reducere. Winner of the Bancroft Prize After more than two decades, Origins of the New South is still recognized both as a classic in regional historiography...

Reducere. The area known as the "Dark Corner" near Greenville, South Carolina was once home to a distinct Appalachian culture. Isolated from their fellow Sou...

Reducere. A story of one family's love and courage in the Jim Crow-era Deep South In defiance of his middle-class landowning family, a young white man named ...

Written during a time of great political turmoil, social anxiety, and against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Wollstonecraft's argument cont...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this anthology of creative nonfiction, twenty-eight writers set out to discover what they know, and don't know, about the person they...

Presents the first anthology of Latin American Yiddish writings translated into English. Included are works of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction from...

Reducere. Malintzin was the indigenous woman who translated for Hernando Cort s in his dealings with the Aztec emperor Moctezuma in the days of 1519 to 1521....

Reducere. DescriptionThis volume focuses broadly on the history of the social welfare reform work of nineteenth-century African American women who founded in...

Reducere. The redbud tree that is so prominent in the landscape of eastern Kentucky during the early spring when they are profusely blooming is something tha...

The history of the twentieth century is most often told through its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, or its economic upheavals. In his s...

Reducere. Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contraste...

Reducere. The origins and ever-changing story of America's favorite holidayAbout the AuthorJAMES W. BAKER was the director of research at Plimoth Plantation ...

Reducere. DescriptionA not-so-nice Jewish girl, expelled from Yale Drama during the Vietnam protests, abandons her acting dream to follow the man she loves t...

Reducere. Compiled together for the first time, here are three plays by Argentine novelist and playwright Manual Puig: the well-known Kiss of the Spider Woma...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Talitha L. LeflouriaIn 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available for h...

Publisher: Art Gallery of New South WalesAuthor(s): Steven MillerIllustration(s): 260 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 288Publication dat...

The first in Carol Drinkwater's bestselling series set on a Provencal olive farmNOW A MAJOR NEW TV SERIES: CAROL DRINKWATER'S SECRET PROVENCE'She w...

Reducere. DescriptionC. P. Ellis grew up in the poor white section of Durham, North Carolina, and as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, a sing...

Reducere. This is a story of tides and coastlines, winds and waves, islands and beaches. It is also a retelling of indigenous creativity, agency, and resista...

Bernard Villemont's poster art can be seen everywhere--in galleries, museums, and poster shops throughout the world. Whether promoting Perrier, Bal...

How does art work? How does it move us, inform us, challenge us? Internationally renowned painter David Salle's incisive essay collection illuminat...

Introduction1 Elements of Continuity2 After Oxford: The War Years3 Crampton Hodnet: The Continuous Cycle4 Some Tame Gazelle: Continuity and Content...

Reducere. Why did the Confederacy lose the Civil War? Most historians point to the larger number of Union troops, for example, or the North's greater industr...

The author points out that it is not the mere presence of suffering but how a Christian reacts to it which determines one's spiritual growth throug...

Reducere. One of the largest and fastest-growing cities in the South, Charlotte, North Carolina, came of age in the New South decades of the late nineteenth ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mary WollstonecraftHer story of a woman incarcerated in a madhouse by her abusive husband dramatizes the effect of the Engl...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE FOR GLOBAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING AND LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2021Publisher: Harper...

Reducere. As A. N. Wilson, biographer of Tolstoy, C. S. Lewis, and Jesus, makes clear in this astonishing and gripping narrative, Christianity without Paul i...

Reducere. Stigmatized and relegated to the margins of Roman society, the Goths were violent "barbarians" who destroyed "civilization, " at least in the conve...

Reducere. We have always conjured up creatures never seen in nature, from flying horses and two-headed birds to fire-breathing dragons and enormous killer sk...

Reducere. Sons of Privilege traces the wartime experiences of a unique Confederate cavalry unit drawn together from South Carolina's most prestigious familie...

This work describes, explains and warns Europe against following the road alreadly taken by the US and, perhaps not quite irreversibly, Britain by ...

Reducere. DescriptionA delightful tour of the Finger Lakes Region of New York State through captivating illustration and descriptive verse. Each page shares ...

Reducere. From managing a schedule to maintaining a wardrobe and everything in between, best-selling author Anne Ortlund offers a primer for cultivating beau...

Publisher: University of South Carolina PressAuthor(s): John David SmithIllustration(s): 87 illustrationsNumber of pages: 136Publication date: 2012...

Reducere. In The Edible South, Marcie Cohen Ferris presents food as a new way to chronicle the American South's larger history. Ferris tells a richly illustr...

Reducere. Wild Food Plants of the South Pacific and Southeast Asia is an introduction to the wide variety of edible food plants available on the islands of th...