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  • Finding Charity's Folk

    Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland

    by Jessica Millward ...
    Series series
    Finding Charity’s Folk highlights the experiences of enslaved Maryland women who negotiated for their own freedom, many of whom have been largely lost to historical records. Based on more than fifteen hundred manumission records and numerous manuscript documents from a diversity of archives, Jessica Millward skillfully brings together African American social and gender history to provide a new ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

  • Historians on Housewives

    Fashion, Performance, and Power on Bravo Reality TV

    Edited by Kacey Calahane, Jessica Millward, Max Speare ...
    According to popular stereotype, Bravo reality television portrays vapid, one-dimensional characters tearing each other down for viewers’ enjoyment. Whether The Real Housewives taps into our voyeuristic urges, our fascination with wealth and class, or the allure of the sheer spectacle of grown women yelling at one another, the show is truly a cultural phenomenon—and a global one, with more than ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Black Women Talk Politics

    Oral History as Method and Movement

    Edited by Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Lisa Beard, LaShonda R. Carter, Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd, Jessica Millward ...
    Series series SUNY series in Black Women's Wellness
    Introduces an innovative, community-based model for producing knowledge and assessing scholarly impact****in and beyond the field of politics.Black Women Talk Politics models and makes a case for new ways of generating knowledge and measuring impact in political science and academia writ large. Based on thirty-two oral histories conducted between established and emerging scholars during the ... Read more

    $45.09 CAD

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  • Sexuality and Slavery

    Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas

    by Trevor Burnard, Stephanie M. H. Camp, David Doddington, Jim Downs, Thomas A. Foster, Marisa Fuentes, Stephanie Jones-Rogers, Jessica Millward, Bianca Premo, Brenda Stevenson ...
    Series series
    In this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris place sexuality at the center of slavery studies in the Americas (the United States, the Caribbean, and South America). While scholars have marginalized or simply overlooked the importance of sexual practices in most mainstream studies of slavery, Berry and Harris argue here that sexual intimacy constituted a core ... Read more

    $120.89 CAD

  • The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered

    by Richard Bell, Thomas G. Clemens, Robert J. Cook, Sharita Jacobs-Thompson, Martha Jones, Brian Matthew Jordan, Jessica Millward, Timothy J. Orr, Rob Schoeberlein, Frank Towers, Jonathan W. White, Frank J. Williams ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    CONTENTS:Introduction, Jean H. Baker and Charles W. Mitchell“Border State, Border War: Fighting for Freedom and Slavery in Antebellum Maryland,” Richard Bell“Charity Folks and the Ghosts of Slavery in Pre–Civil War Maryland,” Jessica Millward“Confronting Dred Scott: Seeing Citizenship from Baltimore,” Martha S. Jones“‘Maryland Is This Day . . . True to the American Union’: The Election of 1860 and ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

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    by W. David Marx ...
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  • Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

    The Civil War Era

    by James M. McPherson ...
    Series series Oxford History of the United States
    Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at ... Read more

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  • Bad Girls Throughout History

    100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

    by Ann Shen ...
    Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World delivers a empowering book for women and girls of all ages, featuring 100 women who made history and made their mark on the world, it's a best-selling book you can be proud to display in your home.The 100 revolutionary women highlighted in this gorgeously illustrated book were bad in the best sense of the word: they ... Read more

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  • The Fall of the House of Dixie

    The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South

    by Bruce Levine ...
    In this major new history of the Civil War, Bruce Levine tells the riveting story of how that conflict upended the economic, political, and social life of the old South, utterly destroying the Confederacy and the society it represented and defended. Told through the words of the people who lived it, The Fall of the House of Dixie illuminates the way a war undertaken to preserve the status quo ... Read more

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  • Dress Codes

    How the Laws of Fashion Made History

    by Richard Thompson Ford ...
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  • 366 Days in Abraham Lincoln's Presidency

    The Private, Political, and Military Decisions of America's Greatest President

    Edited by Stephen A. Wynalda ...
    In a startlingly innovative format, journalist Stephen A. Wynalda has constructed a painstakingly detailed day-by-day breakdown of president Abraham Lincoln’s decisions in office-including his signing of the Homestead Act on May 20, 1862; his signing of the legislation enacting the first federal income tax on August 5, 1861; and more personal incidents like the day his eleven-year-old son, Willie, ... Read more

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  • Don’t Know Much About® the Civil War

    Everything You Need to Know About America's Greatest Conflict but Never Learned

    by Kenneth C. Davis ...
    Series Book 10 - Don't Know Much About Series
    “Highly informative and entertaining…propels the reader light years beyond dull textbooks and Gone with the Wind.”—San Francisco ChronicleIt has been 150 years since the opening salvo of America’s War Between the States. New York Times bestselling author Ken Davis tells us everything we never knew about our nation’s bloodiest conflict in Don’t Know Much About ® the Civil War—another fascinating ... Read more

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