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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Religion in America, Volume I: Primary Sources in U.S. History Series
James T. Baker
From the Series Primary Sources in U.S. History
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Religion in America, Volume II: Primary Sources in U.S. History Series
James T. Baker
From the Series Primary Sources in U.S. History
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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
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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
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Many Lives, Many Stories: A Biography Reader, Volume 2
Patricia Hagler Minter, Editor and Kathryn A. Abbot, Editor
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Many Lives, Many Stories: A Biography Reader, Volume 1
Patricia Hagler Minter, Editor and Kathryn A. Abbot, Editor
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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