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Facts and Falsehoods Concerning the War on the South 1861-1865, Annotated
One of the best-educated and most intellectual women of the South, Elizabeth Avery Meriwether, writing under the pen name of "George Edmonds," published this defense of the American South in 1904. Elizabeth and her husband, Minor Meriwether, were living in Memphis, when the war broke out. Elizabeth was living alone with her small children when Memphis fell to the Federals. Elizabeth was vocal in her displeasure with the occupation of General W. T. Sherman's oppressive troops. This concluded with Sherman ordering her out of her home and putting her on the street only weeks before the birth of her son, Lee Meriwether. Lee was born at the home of friends in Columbus, Mississippi, December 25, 1862. The exceptional book, using Northern sources, turns the tables and uses these sources in the defense of the Southern cause. With great clarity, the author proves the real agenda of the North under Abraham Lincoln's radical political party. The editor, a retired history teacher has supplied additional notes, a short biography of the author, and illustrations to the original publication.
Living Confederate Principles
This work examines Confederate ethical principles and morality after the Civil War.
In Her Place
This new addition to the popular guidebook series explores women's experiences and the impact of their activities on the history and landscape of St. Louis. When the city was founded, most St. Louisans believed that "a woman's place is in the home," in the house of her father, husband, or master. Over the years, women pushed out the boundaries of their lives into the public arena, and in doing so they changed the face of St. Louis. In Her Place is a guide to the changing definition of a woman's place in St. Louis, beginning with the colonial period and ending with the 1960s. Each chapter explores the experiences of women during a specific time period and identifies the sites of some of their...
Manhood Lost
In fiction, drama, poems, and pamphlets, nineteenth-century reformers told the familiar tale of the decent young man who fell victim to demon rum: Robbed of his manhood by his first drink, he slid inevitably into an abyss of despair and depravity. In its discounting of the importance of free will, argues Elaine Frantz Parsons, this story led to increased emphasis on environmental influences as root causes of drunkenness, poverty, and moral corruption—thus inadvertently opening the door to state intervention in the form of Prohibition. Parsons also identifies the emergence of a complementary narrative of "female invasion"—womanhood as a moral force powerful enough to sway choice. As did many social reformers, women temperance advocates capitalized on notions of feminine virtue and domestic responsibilities to create a public role for themselves. Entering a distinctively male space—the saloon—to rescue fathers, brothers, and sons, women at the same time began to enter another male bastion—politics—again justifying their transgression in terms of rescuing the nation's manhood.
Tennessee Women
The second volume of Tennessee Women: Their Lives and Times contains sixteen essays on Tennessee women in the forefront of the political, economic, and cultural history of the state and assesses the national and sometimes international scope of their influence. The essays examine women's lives in the broad sweep of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history in Tennessee and reenvision the state's past by placing them at the center of the historical stage and examining their experiences in relation to significant events. Together, volumes 1 and 2 cover women's activities from the early 1700s to the late 1900s. Volume 2 looks at antebellum issues of gender, race, and class; the impact of the Ci...
