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Based primarily on a study of the towns of Thorold, Campbellford, and Ingersoll this investigation seeks as well to determine the nature of commonalities and differences in patterns of participation in religious and leisure activities within both middle- and working-class families.
2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title A city of modest size, Providence, Rhode Island, had the third-largest Native American population in the United States by the first decade of the twentieth century. Native Providence tells the stories of the city's Native residents at this historical moment and in the decades before and after, a time when European Americans claimed that Northeast Natives had mostly vanished. Denied their rightful place in modernity, men, women, and children from Narragansett, Nipmuc, Pequot, Wampanoag, and other ancestral communities traveled diverse and complicated routes to make their homes in this city. They found each other, carved out livelihoods, and created neigh...
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Die Neuauflage des Klassikers zur Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten bietet einen Überblick der Ereignisse und Entwicklungen bis ins Jahr 2020. Sozial- und kulturgeschichtliche Themen treten neben die Darstellung von Politik, Wirtschaft und Verfassung vor dem Hintergrund einer weltpolitischen Lage, die sich in den letzten 20 Jahren entscheidend verändert hat und zu einer Neubewertung der Rolle der USA als Weltmacht Anlass gibt. Besondere Beachtung finden die Rassenproblematik, ethnische, religiöse und Umweltfragen, Einwanderung sowie die Rolle der Frauen und die deutschamerikanischen Beziehungen. Die Fülle von Fakten und Analysen verbindet der Band mit den Mitteln narrativer Geschichtsschreibung zu einer differenzierten, gut lesbaren Darstellung auf aktuellem Forschungsstand. Die neue kommentierte Bibliographie diskutiert Standardwerke wie auch aktuelle Literatur. utb+: Begleitend zum Buch erhalten Leser:innen auf einer redaktionell betreuten Website eine umfangreiche Quellensammlung (Faksimile, Video-, Audiomaterial), um den Stoff zu veranschaulichen und zu vertiefen. Erhältlich über utb.de.
Susan Nye Hutchison (1790-1867) was one of many teachers to venture south across the Mason-Dixon Line in the Second Great Awakening. From 1815 to 1841, she kept journals about her career, family life, and encounters with slavery. Drawing on these journals and hundreds of other documents, Kim Tolley uses Hutchison's life to explore the significance of education in transforming American society in the early national period. Tolley examines the roles of ambitious, educated women like Hutchison who became teachers for economic, spiritual, and professional reasons. During this era, working women faced significant struggles when balancing career ambitions with social conventions about female domes...
The Afterlife in Popular Culture: Heaven, Hell, and the Underworld in the American Imagination gives students a fresh look at how Americans view the afterlife, helping readers understand how it's depicted in popular culture. What happens to us when we die? The book seeks to explore how that question has been answered in American popular culture. It begins with five framing essays that provide historical and intellectual background on ideas about the afterlife in Western culture. These essays are followed by more than 100 entries, each focusing on specific cultural products or authors that feature the afterlife front and center. Entry topics include novels, film, television shows, plays, work...
The “compelling and lively” story of a pioneering abolitionist schoolteacher and her far-reaching influence on civil rights and American law (Richard S. Newman, author of Freedom’s Prophet). When Prudence Crandall, a Canterbury, Connecticut schoolteacher, accepted a black woman as a student, she unleashed a storm of controversy that catapulted her to national notoriety, and drew the attention of the most significant pro- and anti-slavery activists of the early nineteenth century. The Connecticut state legislature passed its infamous Black Law in an attempt to close down her school. Crandall was arrested and jailed—but her legal legacy had a lasting impact. Crandall v. State was the f...