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  • Inquiry-Based Lessons in U.S. History: Decoding the Past by Andrew McMichael and Jana Kirchner

    Inquiry-Based Lessons in U.S. History: Decoding the Past

    Andrew McMichael and Jana Kirchner

    Inquiry-Based Lessons in U.S. History: Decoding the Past provides primary source lessons that focus on teaching U.S. history through inquiry to middle school students. Students will be faced with a question to answer or problem to solve and will examine primary sources for evidence to create hypothetical solutions. The chapters ...Read More

  • Selling the Yellow Jersey: The Tour de France in the Global Era by Eric Reed

    Selling the Yellow Jersey: The Tour de France in the Global Era

    Eric Reed

    Yellow Livestrong wristbands were taken off across America in early 2013 when Lance Armstrong confessed to Oprah Winfrey that he had doped during the seven Tour de France races he won. But the foreign cycling world, which always viewed Armstrong with suspicion, had already moved on. The bellwether events of ...Read More

  • Signposts: New Directions in Southern Legal History (Studies in the Legal History of the South Series) by Patricia Hagler Minter, editor and contributor; Sally Hadden, editor and contributor; and and others

    Signposts: New Directions in Southern Legal History (Studies in the Legal History of the South Series)

    Patricia Hagler Minter, editor and contributor; Sally Hadden, editor and contributor; and and others

    In Signposts, Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter have assembled seventeen essays, by both established and rising scholars, that showcase new directions in southern legal history across a wide range of topics, time periods, and locales. The essays will inspire today's scholars to dig even more deeply into the ...Read More

  • From Priest's Whore to Pastor's Wife: Clerical Marriage and the Process of Reform in the Early German Reformation by Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer

    From Priest's Whore to Pastor's Wife: Clerical Marriage and the Process of Reform in the Early German Reformation

    Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer

    On 13 June 1525, Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora, a former nun, in a private ceremony officiated by city preacher Johann Bugenhagen. Whilst Luther was not the first former monk or Reformer to marry, his marriage immediately became one of the iconic episodes of the Protestant Reformation. From that ...Read More

  • Ideas and Cultural Margins in Early Modern Germany: Essays in Honor of H.C. Erik Midelfort by Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, Editor and Robin B. Barnes, Editor

    Ideas and Cultural Margins in Early Modern Germany: Essays in Honor of H.C. Erik Midelfort

    Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, Editor and Robin B. Barnes, Editor

    While the assumption of a sharp distinction between learned culture and lay society has been broadly challenged over the past three decades, the question of how ideas moved and were received and transformed by diverse individuals and groups stands as a continuing challenge to social and intellectual historians, especially with ...Read More

  • Gettysburg Heroes: Perfect Soldiers, Hallowed Ground by Glen W. LaFantasie

    Gettysburg Heroes: Perfect Soldiers, Hallowed Ground

    Glen W. LaFantasie

    The Civil War generation saw its world in ways startlingly different from our own. In these essays, Glenn W. LaFantasie examines the lives and experiences of several key personalities who gained fame during the war and after. The battle of Gettysburg is the thread that ties these Civil War lives ...Read More

  • Atlantic Loyalties Americans in Spanish West Florida, 1785–1810 by Andrew McMichael

    Atlantic Loyalties Americans in Spanish West Florida, 1785–1810

    Andrew McMichael

    Integrating social, cultural, economic, and political history, this is a study of the factors that grounded--or swayed--the loyalties of non-Spaniards living under Spanish rule on the southern frontier. In particular, Andrew McMichael looks at the colonial Spanish administration’s attitude toward resident Americans. The Spanish borderlands systems of slavery and land ...Read More

  • Religion in America, Volume I: Primary Sources in U.S. History Series by James T. Baker

    Religion in America, Volume I: Primary Sources in U.S. History Series

    James T. Baker

    From the Series Primary Sources in U.S. History

  • Religion in America, Volume II: Primary Sources in U.S. History Series by James T. Baker

    Religion in America, Volume II: Primary Sources in U.S. History Series

    James T. Baker

    From the Series Primary Sources in U.S. History

  • Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon by Anthony Harkins

    Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon

    Anthony Harkins

    In this pioneering work of cultural history, historian Anthony Harkins argues that the hillbilly-in his various guises of "briar hopper," "brush ape," "ridge runner," and "white trash"-has been viewed by mainstream Americans simultaneously as a violent degenerate who threatens the modern order and as a keeper of traditional values of ...Read More

  • Twilight at Little Round Top: July 2, 1863--The Tide Turns at Gettysburg by Glenn W. LaFantasie

    Twilight at Little Round Top: July 2, 1863--The Tide Turns at Gettysburg

    Glenn W. LaFantasie

    In his beautifully written narrative, Glenn LaFantasie tells the story of the battle for Little Round Top from the perspective of the soldiers who fought and died in July 1863. Using well-chosen quotes from a wide variety of battle participants, TWILIGHT puts the reader in the midst of the fight--firing ...Read More

  • History on the Web: Using and Evaluating the Internet by Andrew McMichael

    History on the Web: Using and Evaluating the Internet

    Andrew McMichael

  • Many Lives, Many Stories: A Biography Reader, Volume 2 by Patricia Hagler Minter, Editor and Kathryn A. Abbot, Editor

    Many Lives, Many Stories: A Biography Reader, Volume 2

    Patricia Hagler Minter, Editor and Kathryn A. Abbot, Editor

  • Many Lives, Many Stories: A Biography Reader, Volume 1 by Patricia Hagler Minter, Editor and Kathryn A. Abbot, Editor

    Many Lives, Many Stories: A Biography Reader, Volume 1

    Patricia Hagler Minter, Editor and Kathryn A. Abbot, Editor

  • Lepidus: The Tarnished Triumvir by Richard D. Weigel

    Lepidus: The Tarnished Triumvir

    Richard D. Weigel

    Marcus Aemilius Lepidus was a significant force in Roman political, religious and military affairs during the late Republic. However, in most accounts he is dismissed quickly, made sport of, or bitterly attacked. Through a careful examination of Lepidus's career, Richard Weigel has shown why many of the sources are hostile and how these have created an inaccurate assessment of Lepidus's role in history. Weigel shows that Lepidus was a competent administrator and that he was consistent in serving the Republic's needs as he understood them.

  • Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity: Historical Essays in European Thought and Culture by Robert L. Dietle, Editor and Mark S. Micale, Editor

    Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity: Historical Essays in European Thought and Culture

    Robert L. Dietle, Editor and Mark S. Micale, Editor

    During the 1970s and 1980s, the study of intellectual and cultural history was often denigrated for its alleged elitist and canonical nature. Today, the situation has changed dramatically. Enriched by the methods and insights of such neighboring areas of inquiry as social history, the history of mentalités, linguistics, anthropology, literary ...Read More

  • Sherman and the Burning of Columbia by Marion B. Lucas

    Sherman and the Burning of Columbia

    Marion B. Lucas

    In this edition of his widely acclaimed study, Marion B. Lucas tackles one of the most debated questions about the Civil War: Who burned South Carolina's capital city on February 17, 1865? Before the fires had finished smoldering, Confederates and Federals accused each other of starting the blaze, igniting a ...Read More

  • Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady: Creators of the American Mind Series, Volume II 1st Edition by James T. Baker

    Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady: Creators of the American Mind Series, Volume II 1st Edition

    James T. Baker

  • Fifty Years of Segregation: Black Higher Education in Kentucky, 1904-1954 by John A. Hardin

    Fifty Years of Segregation: Black Higher Education in Kentucky, 1904-1954

    John A. Hardin

    Kentucky was the last state in the South to introduce racially segregated schools and one of the first to break down racial barriers in higher education. The passage of the infamous Day Law in 1904 forced Berea College to exclude 174 students because of their race. Throughout the 1930s and ...Read More

  • A History of Blacks in Kentucky: From Slavery to Segregation, 1760-1891 by Marion B. Lucas

    A History of Blacks in Kentucky: From Slavery to Segregation, 1760-1891

    Marion B. Lucas

    A History of Blacks in Kentucky traces the role of blacks from the early exploration and settlement of Kentucky to 1891, when African Americans gained freedom only to be faced with a segregated society. Making extensive use of numerous primary sources such as slave diaries, Freedmen’s Bureau records, church minutes, and collections of personalpapers, the book tells the stories of individuals, their triumphs and tragedies, and their accomplishments in the face of adversity.

  • Onward and Upward: A Centennial History of Kentucky State University, 1886-1986 by John A. Hardin

    Onward and Upward: A Centennial History of Kentucky State University, 1886-1986

    John A. Hardin

  • Sergeant York: An American Hero by David D. Lee

    Sergeant York: An American Hero

    David D. Lee

    Alvin C. York went out on a routine patrol an ordinary, unknown American doughboy of the First World War. He came back from no-man’s-land a hero. In a brief encounter on October 8, 1918, during the Argonne offensive, York had killed 25 German soldiers and, almost singlehandedly, effected the capture ...Read More

  • Peace in the Ancient World by Richard D. Weigel and Matthew Melko

    Peace in the Ancient World

    Richard D. Weigel and Matthew Melko

  • The Big Sandy by Carol Crowe Carraco

    The Big Sandy

    Carol Crowe Carraco

    The Big Sandy River and its two main tributaries, the Tug and Levisa forks, drain nearly two million mountainous acres in the easternmost part of Kentucky. For generations, the only practical means of transportation and contact with the outside world was the river, and, as The Big Sandy demonstrates, steamboats ...Read More

  • Tennessee in Turmoil: Politics in the Volunteer State, 1920-1932 by David D. Lee

    Tennessee in Turmoil: Politics in the Volunteer State, 1920-1932

    David D. Lee

 
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