"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 ..."
""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 ..."
"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 ..."
"“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 terrible 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 ..."
Sophonisba Breckinridge Championing Women's Activism in Modern America (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History) by AnyaJabour 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 ..."
Sophonisba Breckinridge Championing Women's Activism in Modern America by AnyaJabour 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 ..."
Topsy-Turvy How the Civil War Turned the World Upside down for Southern Children by AnyaJabour Published 2010 ISBN-13: 978-1-56663-894-4, ISBN: 1-56663-894-1
"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 ..."
Scarlett's Sisters Young Women in the Old South by AnyaJabour Published 2009 ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-0516-6, ISBN: 1-4696-0516-3
Scarlett's Sisters(Updated) Young Women in the Old South by AnyaJabour 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 ..."
""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 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 ..."
""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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."