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Family Values in the Old South(Updated)
by Craig Thompson Friend, Anya Jabour, Professor Anya Jabour
Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2010 by University Press Of Florida
ISBN-13: 978-0-8130-3676-2, ISBN: 0-8130-3676-3

""Will become a useful addition to our understanding of antebellum Southern families, especially in demonstrating their multiple forms, definitions, and functions."--Sally McMillen, Davidson College This collection of essays on family life in the nineteenth-century American South reevaluates the concept of family by looking at mourning practices, farming practices, tavern life, houses divided by politics, and interracial marriages. Indi ..."






Major Problems in the History of American Families and Children(1st Edition)
(Major Problems in American History (Wadsworth))
by Professor Anya Jabour, Anya Jabour
Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 2004 by Cengage Learning
ISBN-13: 978-0-618-21475-4, ISBN: 0-618-21475-5

"Part of the Major Problems in American History series, this text for courses in family history or history of childhood balances its discussion of marriage and gender relations with coverage on children and childhood. Offering a thorough treatment of race, ethnicity, and class from colonial times to the present, this edition grants sustained attention to Native Americans and Latinos. Relating history to larger political events, the text ..."






Scarlett's Sisters(Updated)
Young Women in the Old South
by Anya Jabour
Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2007 by The University Of North Carolina Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-3101-4, ISBN: 0-8078-3101-8

"Scarlett's Sisters explores the meaning of nineteenth-century southern womanhood from the vantage point of the celebrated fictional character's flesh-and-blood counterparts: young, elite, white women. Anya Jabour demonstrates that southern girls and young women faced a major turning point when the Civil War forced them to assume new roles and responsibilities as independent women. Examining the lives of more than 300 girls and women bet ..."






Family Values in the Old South -
by Craig Thompson Friend, Editor-Anya Jabour, Professor Anya Jabour
Hardcover, 257 Pages, Published 2009 by University Press Of Florida
ISBN-13: 978-0-8130-3418-8, ISBN: 0-8130-3418-3

""Will become a useful addition to our understanding of antebellum Southern families, especially in demonstrating their multiple forms, definitions, and functions."--Sally McMillen, Davidson CollegeThis collection of essays on family life in the nineteenth-century American South reevaluates the concept of family by looking at mourning practices, farming practices, tavern life, houses divided by politics, and interracial marriages. Indivi ..."






Sophonisba Breckinridge
Championing Women's Activism in Modern America (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)
by Anya Jabour
Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Illinois Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-252-04267-6, ISBN: 0-252-04267-0

"Sophonisba Breckinridge's remarkable career stretched from the Civil War to the Cold War. She took part in virtually every reform campaign of the Progressive and New Deal eras and became a nationally and internationally renowned figure. Her work informed women’s activism for decades and continues to shape progressive politics today.Anya Jabour's biography rediscovers this groundbreaking American figure. After earning advanced degrees in ..."






The Human Tradition in America from the Colonial Era through Reconstruction(Updated)
by John Shy, Laura Mccall, Helen Deese, John Mayfield, Richard Lowe, Neal Salisbury, Marilyn Westerkamp, Anya Jabour, Charles W. Calhoun, Rosalind J. Beiler, Gary L. Hewitt, Robert J. Allison, University Neal Salisbury, Gary B. Nash, Professor Anya Jabour, Donna L. Akers, George R. Price, Steven E. Woodworth, Ethan S. Rafuse, Lesley J. Gordon, Marla R. Miller, Charles William Calhoun, Woodworth/Nash/Calho
Paperback, 239 Pages, Published 2002 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-8420-5031-9, ISBN: 0-8420-5031-0

"The Human Tradition in America from the Colonial Era through Reconstruction is a collection of the best biographical sketches from several volumes in SR Books' popular Human Tradition in America Series. Compiled by Series Editor Charles W. Calhoun, this book brings American history to life by illuminating the lives of ordinary Americans. This examination of common individuals helps personalize the nation's past in a way that examining o ..."






The Puritan Dilemma(1st Edition)
The Story of John Winthrop (Library of American Biography)
by Mary Young, John Mayfield, Michael A. Morrison, Daniel Feller, Anya Jabour, Craig Thompson Friend, Samuel J. Watson, Stephen R. Grossbart, Ruth Alden Doan, Gary J. Kornblith, Gene A. Smith, Donna L. Akers, George R. Price, Professor Daniel Feller, Professor Anya Jabour, Daniel A. Cohen, John F. Marszalek
Paperback, 251 Pages, Published 2000 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-8420-2835-6, ISBN: 0-8420-2835-8

"This new book consists of mini-biographies of 15 Americans who lived during the Antebellum period in American history. Part of The Human Tradition in America series, the anthology paints vivid portraits of the lives of lesser-known Americans. Raising new questions from fresh perspectives, this volume contributes to a broader understanding of the dynamic forces that shaped the political, economic, social, and institutional changes that c ..."






Sophonisba Breckinridge
Championing Women's Activism in Modern America
by Anya Jabour
400 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Illinois Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-252-05152-4, ISBN: 0-252-05152-1

"C. H. Dennis (Chicago Daily News) to Jane Addams, October 24, 1923 [with handwritten note from JA to SPB] and ... 6, 8, 1928, SPBP; see also Anette Kniephoff-Knebel and Friedrich W. Seibel, “Establishing International Cooperation in ..."






Weirding the War
Stories from the Civil War's Ragged Edges (UnCivil Wars Ser.)
by Stephen Berry, Amy Taylor, Anya Jabour, Barton A. Myers, Brian Craig Miller, Daniel Sutherland, Emory Thomas, Joan E. Cashin, Kenneth Noe, Leeann Whites, Lesley J. Gordon, Megan Kate Nelson, Michael Degruccio, Michael Fellman, Paul Anderson, Peter Carmichael, Rodney Steward, Steven E. Nash, Andrew Slap, Diane Miller Sommerville, Stephen William Berry
Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3413-4, ISBN: 0-8203-3413-8

""It is well that war is so terrible," Robert E. Lee reportedly said, "or we would grow too fond of it." The essays collected here make the case that we have grown too fond of it, and therefore we must make the war ter-rible again. Taking a "freakonomics" approach to Civil War studies, each contributor uses a seemingly unusual story, incident, or phenomenon to cast new light on the nature of the war itself. Collectively the essays remind ..."






Scarlett's Sisters
Young Women in the Old South
by Anya Jabour, Judith Walzer Leavitt
384 Pages, Published 2009 by Univ Of North Carolina Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-8764-6, ISBN: 0-8078-8764-1

"Now, under the chaperonage of ''Aunt Sally,'' Mrs. William Gibson of Philadelphia, and in the company of her cousins, Grace and Marion, Ella was prepared to take ' 'the gay and noisy City'' by storm as a ''great Virginia bell[e].'' 1 Ella—or ''Miss Noland,'' as she was no doubt known during this period—probably made her first official appearance in society at ''Mrs Willing's Ball,'' which she described in detail in a letter home in ..."






Sophonisba Breckinridge
Championing Women's Activism in Modern America (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)
by Jabour, Anya
Paperback, 408 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Illinois Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-252-08451-5, ISBN: 0-252-08451-9






Marriage in the Early Republic(Updated)
Elizabeth and William Wirt and the Companionate Ideal (Gender Relations in the American Experience)
by Professor Anya Jabour
Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2002 by Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-7110-8, ISBN: 0-8018-7110-7

"William Wirt practiced law in Virginia and Maryland in the early national period and served as attorney general under James Monroe and John Quincy Adams. Elizabeth Wirt managed the household and cared for the Wirts' large family during her husband's frequent work-related absences. For more than three decades, the couple struggled to reconcile different daily pursuits with a commitment to marriage as a partnership of equals. In Marriage ..."






Topsy-Turvy(Reprint)
How the Civil War Turned the World Upside Down for Southern Children (American Childhoods Series)
by Professor Anya Jabour
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2015 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-4908-0, ISBN: 1-4422-4908-0






Topsy-Turvy
How the Civil War Turned the World Upside down for Southern Children
by Anya Jabour
Published 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-56663-894-4, ISBN: 1-56663-894-1






Scarlett's Sisters
Young Women in the Old South
by Anya Jabour
Published 2009
ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-0516-6, ISBN: 1-4696-0516-3






Major Problems In The History Of Families And Childhood Plus Atlas(1st Edition)
by Anya Jabour
Paperback, Published 2006 by Houghton Mifflin College Div
ISBN-13: 978-0-618-84716-7, ISBN: 0-618-84716-2






Kentucky Women
Their Lives and Times (Southern Women: Their Lives and Times Ser.)
by Melissa A. Mceuen, Thomas H. Appleton, Lindsey Apple, Dr. Martha Billips, Dr. James Duane Bolin, Dr. Juilee Decker, Sarah Case, Carolyn Dupont, Angela Esco Elder, Craig Thompson Friend, William Kuby, Karen Cotton Mcdaniel, Andrea Watkins, Melanie Goan, Professor Anya Jabour, John Hill, Catherine Fosl, Mary Jane Smith, Thomas Appleton Jr.
Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 2015 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-4452-2, ISBN: 0-8203-4452-4

""Kentucky Women: Their Lives and Times" introduces a history as dynamic and diverse as Kentucky itself. Covering the Appalachian region in the east to the Pennyroyal in the west, the essays highlight women whose aspirations, innovations, activism, and creativity illustrate Kentucky's role in political and social reform, education, health care, the arts, and cultural development. The collection features women with well-known names as wel ..."






Kentucky Women
Their Lives and Times (Southern Women: Their Lives and Times Ser.)
by Melissa A. Mceuen, Thomas Appleton Jr., Lindsey Apple, Andrea Watkins, Melanie Goan, Sarah Case, Carolyn Dupont, William Kuby, John Hill, Catherine Fosl, Dr. James Duane Bolin, Dr. Juilee Decker, Angela Esco Elder, Craig Thompson Friend, Karen Cotton Mcdaniel, Dr. Martha Billips, Professor Anya Jabour, Mary Jane Smith, Thomas H. Appleton, Martha Billips, Juilee Decker, Anya Jabour, Jane Doe
Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2015 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-4453-9, ISBN: 0-8203-4453-2

"Kentucky Women: Their Lives and Times introduces a history as dynamic and diverse as Kentucky itself. Covering the Appalachian region in the east to the Pennyroyal in the west, the essays highlight women whose aspirations, innovations, activism, and creativity illustrate Kentucky’s role in political and social reform, education, health care, the arts, and cultural development. The collection features women with well-known names as well ..."






Topsy-Turvy(1st Edition)
How the Civil War Turned the World Upside Down for Southern Children (American Childhoods Series)
by Professor Anya Jabour
Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2010 by Ivan R. Dee
ISBN-13: 978-1-56663-632-2, ISBN: 1-56663-632-9

""Oh! Such cannonading on all sides, such shrieks and groans, such commotion of all kinds!" wrote the teenaged Sue Chancellor, a Virginia planter's daughter, in May 1863. "We thought that we were frightened before, but this was far beyond everything. . . . Oh, the horror of that day!" Sue's reactions to the Civil War around her was only one of myriad responses to the conflict from children—boys or girls, black or white, slave or free, ri ..."






The Human Tradition in America from the Colonial Era through Reconstruction
by Contributor-John Shy, Contributor-Laura Mccall, Contributor-John Mayfield, Contributor-Richard Lowe, Contributor-Helen Deese, Contributor-Neal Salisbury, Contributor-Marilyn Westerkamp, Contributor-Anya Jabour, Charles W. Calhoun, University Neal Salisbury, Marilyn J. Westerkamp, Rosalind J. Beiler, Gary L. Hewitt, Marla R. Miller, Robert J. Allison, Gary B. Nash, Professor Anya Jabour, Donna L. Akers, George R. Price, Steven E. Woodworth, Ethan S. Rafuse, Lesley J. Gordon
Hardcover, 239 Pages, Published 2001 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-8420-5030-2, ISBN: 0-8420-5030-2

"The Human Tradition in America from the Colonial Era through Reconstruction is a collection of the best biographical sketches from several volumes in SR Books' popular Human Tradition in America Series. Compiled by Series Editor Charles W. Calhoun, this book brings American history to life by illuminating the lives of ordinary Americans. This examination of common individuals helps personalize the nation's past in a way that examining o ..."



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