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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 3538
Book Description
Who's who in America
Author: The Power of Femininity in the New South
Author: Anastatia SimsPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570031786
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The Power of Femininity in the New South demonstrates how the legendary strength and moral authority of the South's "steel magnolias" inspired turn-of-the-century women to move from the parlor to the political arena. With a comprehensive examination of the women's voluntary associations that proliferated in North Carolina between 1880 and 1930, Anastatia Sims chronicles the emergence of women - both black and white - in a political terrain torn between the tyranny of white supremacy and the promise of Progressive reform. She tells how organized women, as they called themselves, came to terms with a sacred cultural icon of the antebellum South - the complex, often contradictory ideal of southern femininity - and how they explored the ideal's possibilities, discovered its limitations, and ultimately transformed it by their own actions.
The Serials Directory
Author: Dictionary of North Carolina Biography
Author: William S. PowellPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807867004
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The most comprehensive state project of its kind, the Dictionary provides information on some 4,000 notable North Carolinians whose accomplishments and occasional misdeeds span four centuries. Much of the bibliographic information found in the six volumes has been compiled for the first time. All of the persons included are deceased. They are native North Carolinians, no matter where they made the contributions for which they are noted, or non-natives whose contributions were made in North Carolina.
Never for Want of Powder
Author: C. L. BraggPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570036576
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Lavishly illustrated with seventy-four color plates and fifty black-and-white photographs and drawings, Never for Want of Powder tells the story of a world-class munitions factory constructed by the Confederacy in 1861, the only large-scale permanent building project undertaken by a government often characterized as lacking modern industrial values. In this comprehensive examination of the powder works, five scholars--a historian, physicist, curator, architectural historian, and biographer--bring their combined expertise to the task of chronicling gunpowder production during the Civil War. In doing so, they make a major contribution to understanding the history of wartime technology and Confederate ingenuity. Early in the war President Jefferson Davis realized the Confederacy's need to supply its own gunpowder. Accordingly Davis selected Col. George Washington Rains to build a gunpowder factory. An engineer and West Point graduate, Rains relied primarily on a written pamphlet rather than on practical experience in building the powder mill, yet he succeeded in designing a model of efficiency and safety. He sited the facilities at Augusta, Georgia, because of the city's central location, canal transportation, access to water power, railroad facilities, and relative security from attack. As much a story of people as of machinery, Never for Want of Powder recounts the ingenuity of the individuals involved with the project. A cadre of talented subordinates--including Frederick Wright, C. Shaler Smith, William Pendleton, and Isadore P. Girardey--assisted Rains to a degree not previously appreciated by historians. This volume also documents the coordinated outflow of gunpowder and ammunition, and Rains's difficulty in preparing for the defense of Augusta. Today a lone chimney along the Savannah River stands as the only reminder of the munitions facility that once occupied that site. With its detailed reproductions of architectural and mechanical schematics and its expansive vista on the Confederacy, Never for Want of Powder restores the Augusta Powder Works to its rightful place in American lore.
Stowe's Clerical Directory of the American Church
Author: The Standard Periodical Directory
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1994
Book Description
Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory
Author: Carolyn Farquhar UlrichPublisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 2388
Book Description
Contains essential bibliographic and access information on serials published throughout the world.
Directory of Members of the American Association of Social Workers
Author: Judicial Staff Directory
Author: CQ PressPublisher: CQ-Roll Call Group Books
ISBN: 9780872891234
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
Book Description
The Judicial Staff Directory introduces you to more than 15,000 federal court personnel from the Chief Justice of the United States to the law clerk for the district court of Guam.Our color-coded sections provide easy access to: federal courts (district, circuit courts of appeal, bankruptcy); U.S. attorneys and U.S. marshals; 1,900 hard-to-find biographies of judges and stars; 14,000 counties and cities with their judicial circuits and districts; maps of jurisdictions; Judicial Conference; Administrative Office of U.S. Courts; and various indices listing federal judges by appointing presidents, by year of appointment and alphabetically.