The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World, Paperback - Emily Clark

Reducere. Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a "...

Reducere. For decades, scholars have conceived of the coastal city of New Orleans as a remarkable outlier, an exception to nearly every "rule" of accepted U....

Reducere. The Seneca Falls Convention is typically seen as the beginning of the first women's rights movement in the United States. Revolutionary Backlash ar...

By their social and material context as markers of graves, dedications and public signs of honour, inscriptions offer a distinct perspective on the...

Reducere. This book explores the intertwined histories of Saint-Louis, Senegal, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Although separated by an ocean, both cities were ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1762, British forces mobilized more than 230 ships and 26, 000 soldiers, sailors, and enslaved Africans to attack Havana, one of the ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James H. Jr. WardenAbraham and his wife made their African slave a surrogate mother and she bore Abraham a half-black heir....

Reducere. Today, some two million American Indians inhabit the United States, less than one percent of the nation's population. Their origins have always bee...

Reducere. ``Code Girls reveals a hidden army of female cryptographers, whose work played a crucial role in ending World War II.... Mundy has rescued a piece ...

Abraham and his wife made their African slave a surrogate mother and she bore Abraham a half-black heir. Later, God wished to use Moses and his Eth...

Reducere. Recent years have seen a huge explosion in the popularity and commercial viability of women's sports -- with new professional leagues for women to ...

Reducere. The way to executive leadership in the corporate workplace can be a struggle for women of color according to recent studies, and this current envir...

Reducere. The lush landscape and subtropical climate of the Georgia coast only enhance the air of mystery enveloping some of its inhabitants--people who owe,...

Reducere. In the tradition of Hidden Figures and The Girls of Atomic City, Code Girls is the amazing true story of the young American women who cracked Germa...

Reducere. When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing fo...

Here is the true story of Bonnie Parker (1910-1934) and Clyde Barrow (1909-1934), a young sociopathic Southern couple gunned down by authorities af...

Reducere. DescriptionThe daring women of Maryland made their mark on history as spies, would-be queens and fiery suffragettes. Sarah Wilson escaped indenture...

Reducere. The story of the Culper Ring wasn't always as well-known as it is now, which was due to much of the information about it being classified for a lon...

Pan American Women examines U.S. women activists' attempts to advance inter-American cooperation among women and further hemispheric peace between ...

Publisher: Olympia PublishersAuthor(s): Marion T. LaneIllustration(s): Colour illustrationsNumber of pages: 45Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 141...

DescriptionVladimir Burtsev and the Struggle for a Free Russia examines the life of the journalist, historian and revolutionary, Vladimir Burtsev. ...

Reducere. This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It focuses especially on the cau...

The heroism of the females of the American Revolution has gone from memory with the generation that witnessed it, and nothing, absolutely nothing, ...

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Reducere. Explore the Captivating History of the American Revolution In an era where political discourse is becoming increasingly polarized, it is worth refl...

Reducere. The Guide to the American Revolutionary War in New Jersey: Battles, Raids and Skirmishes, Paperback

DescriptionThis title explores the ships and history of the enterprising American patriots who fought the Royal Navy as privateers, and played a ma...

Reducere. Explore the Captivating History of the American RevolutionIn an era where political discourse is becoming increasingly polarized, it is worth refle...

Though there has been a rapid increase of women's representation in law and business, their representation in STEM fields has not been matched. The...

Reducere. A million pages of new World War II codebreaking records have been released by the U.S. Army and Navy and the British government over the last five...

Reducere. In the mid-eighteenth century, the French naturalist Buffon contended that the New World was in fact geologically new--that it had recently emerged...

Reducere. From the arrival of the first Europeans in the region until the 1930s, plantations -- building their fortunes on sugar, and to a lesser extent on c...

The inimitable Jenni Murray celebrates great women from around the world - rescuing some from obscurity and shining a new light on familiar names