Author: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in AmericaPublisher:
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Category : Cookery
Languages : en
Pages : 836
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The Manuscript Inventories and the Catalogs of Manuscripts, Books, and Periodicals: Manuscript inventories, A-P
Author: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in AmericaPublisher:
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Category : Cookery
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
A Guide to the Manuscript Collections in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University
Author: Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript LibraryPublisher: G. K. Hall
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Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The Papers of Alexander Hamilton July - October 1792
Author: Alexander HamiltonPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231089111
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
This book explores the puzzling phenomenon of new veiling practices among lower middle class women in Cairo, Egypt. Although these women are part of a modernizing middle class, they also voluntarily adopt a traditional symbol of female subordination. How can this paradox be explained? An explanation emerges which reconceptualizes what appears to be reactionary behavior as a new style of political struggle--as accommodating protest. These women, most of them clerical workers in the large government bureaucracy, are ambivalent about working outside the home, considering it a change which brings new burdens as well as some important benefits. At the same time they realize that leaving home and family is creating an intolerable situation of the erosion of their social status and the loss of their traditional identity. The new veiling expresses women's protest against this. MacLeod argues that the symbolism of the new veiling emerges from this tense subcultural dilemma, involving elements of both resistance and acquiescence.
Guide to the Manuscript Collections of Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Author: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore CollegePublisher:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Historical Materials in the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library
Author: John F. Kennedy LibraryPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Inventory of Manuscripts in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia
Author: Public Archives of Nova ScotiaPublisher: Halifax : Public Archives of Nova Scotia
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Civil War Memories
Author: Robert J. CookPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421423499
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Why has the Civil War continued to influence American life so profoundly? Winner of the 2018 Book Prize in American Studies of the British Association of American Studies At a cost of at least 800,000 lives, the Civil War preserved the Union, aborted the breakaway Confederacy, and liberated a race of slaves. Civil War Memories is the first comprehensive account of how and why Americans have selectively remembered, and forgotten, this watershed conflict since its conclusion in 1865. Drawing on an array of textual and visual sources as well as a wide range of modern scholarship on Civil War memory, Robert J. Cook charts the construction of four dominant narratives by the ordinary men and women, as well as the statesmen and generals, who lived through the struggle and its tumultuous aftermath. Part One explains why the Yankee victors’ memory of the “War of the Rebellion” drove political conflict into the 1890s, then waned with the passing of the soldiers who had saved the republic. It also touches on the leading role southern white women played in the development of the racially segregated South’s “Lost Cause”; explores why, by the beginning of the twentieth century, the majority of Americans had embraced a powerful reconciliatory memory of the Civil War; and details the failed efforts to connect an emancipationist reading of the conflict to the fading cause of civil rights. Part Two demonstrates the Civil War’s capacity to thrill twentieth-century Americans in movies such as The Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind. It also reveals the war’s vital connection to the black freedom struggle in the modern era. Finally, Cook argues that the massacre of African American parishioners in Charleston in June 2015 highlighted the continuing relevance of the Civil War by triggering intense nationwide controversy over the place of Confederate symbols in the United States. Written in vigorous prose for a wide audience and designed to inform popular debate on the relevance of the Civil War to the racial politics of modern America, Civil War Memories is required reading for informed Americans today.
A Guide to Research Collections of Former Members of the United States House of Representatives, 1789-1987
Author: Cynthia Pease MillerPublisher:
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Category : Archival resources
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Guide to Research Collections of Former United States Senators, 1789-1995
Author: Diane B. BoylePublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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