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Tara Revisited: Women, War, And The Plantation Legend
Cutting through romantic myth, this captivating volume combines period photographs and illustrations with new documentary sources to tell the real story of southern women during the Civil War.Drawing from a wealth of poignant letters, diaries, slave narratives, and other accounts, Catherine Clinton ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1995 -
The Black Soldier: 1492 to the Present
Black soldiers have fought and died in the Americas for centuries, an unbroken chain of warriors stretching back nearly five hundred years. Yet their contribution to our nation's history has been neglected, and the battles they've had to fight against racism and prejudice have often been as challeng... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2000 -
The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century
A timely, lively, and very useful overview of the history of American women in the nineteenth century, which provides a much-needed synthesis of the themes and problems generated by research in women's history. Compact enough to meet the needs of undergraduates, detailed enough for specialists i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1984 -
The Plantation Mistress
This pioneering study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers the first serious look at the lives of white women and their harsh and restricted place in the slave society before the Civil War. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of hundreds of planter wives and daughters, Clinton set... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1982 -
Stepdaughters of History: Southern Women and the American Civil War (Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History)
In Stepdaughters of History, noted scholar Catherine Clinton reflects on the roles of women as historical actors within the field of Civil War studies and examines the ways in which historians have redefined female wartime participation. Clinton contends that despite the recent attention, white and ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
Every schoolchild knows of Harriet Tubman's heroic escape and resistance to slavery.But few readers are aware that Tubman went on to be a scout, a spy, and a nurse for the Union Army, because there has never before been a serious biography for an adult audience of this important woman.This is that l... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
Mrs. Lincoln: A Life
Abraham Lincoln is the most revered president in American history, but the woman at the center of his life, his wife, Mary, has remained a historical enigma. In this definitive, magisterial biography, Catherine Clinton draws on important new research to illuminate the remarkable life of Mary Lincoln... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Half Sisters of History
Long relegated to the margins of historical research, the history of women in the American South has rightfully gained prominence as a distinguished discipline. A comprehensive and much-needed tribute to southern women's history, Half Sisters of History brings together the most important work in th... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1994 -
Phillis's Big Test
In 1773, Phillis Wheatley published a book of poetry. It was a great accomplishment that made her very famous.Only a year before, Phillis had had to take a test to prove that she was the actual author of these poems, because Phillis Wheatley was a slave.Who would believe that an African girl could b... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Sisterly Networks: Fifty Years of Southern Women's Histories (Frontiers of the American South)
Tracing the development of the field of southern women’s history over the past half century, Sisterly Networks shows how pioneering feminists laid the foundation for a strong community of sister scholars and delves into the work of an organization central to this movement, the Southern Association f... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
We The People: Work Together
by Catherine Clinton • Sarah Bednarz • Michael Hartoonian • Arthur Hernandez • Patricia L. Marshall • Pat NickellSocial Studies textbook ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1997 -
Build Our Nation
by Catherine Clinton • Sarah Bednarz • Michael Hartoonian • Arthur Hernandez • Patricia L. Marshall • Pat NickellUnited States history textbook. ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1997 -
Build Our Nation
by Catherine Clinton • Sarah Bednarz • Michael Hartoonian • Arthur Hernandez • Patricia L. Marshall • Pat NickellHistory textbook for teens.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2000 -
Explore Our Land
by Catherine Clinton • Sarah Bednarz • Michael Hartoonian • Arthur Hernandez • Patricia L. Marshall • Pat NickellLearning about geography can help you answer many questions about the regions of our land, the United States. ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2000 -
Discover Our Heritage (Grade #6)
by Catherine Clinton • Sarah Bednarz • Michael Hartoonian • Arthur Hernandez • Patricia L. Marshall • Pat NickellHistory textbook for 6th grade students. ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2000 -
Language: ENGCopyright: 2000
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Build Our Nation: We the People
by Catherine Clinton • Sarah Bednarz • Michael Hartoonian • Arthur Hernandez • Patricia L. Marshall • Pat NickellA great history book about United States for grade 3-5 students.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
Writing History with Lightning: Cinematic Representations of Nineteenth-Century America
by Catherine Clinton • William L. Andrews • Lesley J. Gordon • John C. Inscoe • Marcus Rediker • John F. Marszalek • John David Smith • Graham Hodges • Matthew Stanley • Diane Miller Sommerville • Michael Burlingame • Joseph Beilein • Matthew C. Hulbert • Brian Rouleau • Tom Lee • Kenneth Greenberg • Jonathon Sarris • Ryan Keating • Donna Barbie • Allison Dorsey • Stephen Whitfield • Nicole Etcheson • Drew Swanson • James Crisp • Kevin Waite • Jacob LeeFilms possess virtually unlimited power for crafting broad interpretations of American history. Nineteenth-century America has proven especially conducive to Hollywood imaginations, producing indelible images like the plight of Davy Crockett and the defenders of the Alamo, Pickett’s doomed charge at... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019