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Disciplining Old Age
The Formation of Gerontological Knowledge
Katz, StephenIn Disciplining Old Age Stephen Katz gives us a sophisticated and theoretically rigorous approach to what gerentology does. He deftly and subtly combines the theories of...
Black Prisoners and Their World, Alabama, 1865-1900
Curtin, Mary EllenIn the late nineteenth century, prisoners in Alabama, the vast majority of them African Americans, were forced to work as coal miners under the most horrendous conditions...
A "Topping People"
The Rise and Decline of Virginia's Old Political Elite, 1680-1790
Evans, Emory G. A "Topping People" is the first comprehensive study of the political, economic, and social elite of colonial Virginia. Evans studies twenty-one leading families from...
White, Red, and Black
The Seventeenth-Century Virginian
Craven, Wesley Frank[Book description not available]
The Papers of James Madison
1 March 1823-24 February 1826
Madison, James, Mattern, David B., Stagg, J. C. A., Johnson, Mary Parke, Harbury, Katharine E.During the period around volume 3 of the Retirement Series, James Madison remained largely at Montpelier, except for occasional visits to neighbors and attendance at ceremonial...
Citizens of Convenience
The Imperial Origins of American Nationhood on the U.S.-Canadian Border
Hatter, Lawrence B. A.Like merchant ships flying flags of convenience to navigate foreign waters, traders in the northern borderlands of the early American republic exploited loopholes in the Jay...
The Big House after Slavery
Virginia Plantation Families and Their Postbellum Domestic Experiment
Morsman, Amy Feely The Big House after Slavery examines the economic, social, and political challenges that Virginia planter families faced following Confederate defeat and emancipation....
Mad Princes of Renaissance Germany
Midelfort, H. C. ErikDuring the sixteenth century close to thirty German dukes, landgraves, and counts, plus one Holy Roman emperor, were known as mad- so mentally disordered that serious steps had...
The Sheltered Life
Glasgow, Ellen"The Sheltered Life," writes Carol S. Manning in her Afterword to this new paperback edition, is "a jewel of American literature and deserves recognition as a...
The Silent Prologue
How Judicial Philosophies Shape Our Constitutional Rights
Raban, OferThe U.S. Constitution contains a series of rights and liberties operating as restrictions on the powers of government, and courts have the final authority to determine what...
The Papers of George Washington
August 1755-April 1756
Washington, George, Abbot, W. W.The ten-volume Colonial Series, covering the years 1748-1775, takes the young Washington through his command of the Virginia Regiment during the French and Indian War and then...
The Correspondence of Thomas Hutchinson
January-October, 1770
Hutchinson, Thomas, Tyler, John W., Hogan, Margaret A.The Boston Massacre occasioned a flurry of letter writing for Thomas Hutchinson, the royal governor of Massachusetts. So frequent was the correspondence to and from Hutchinson...
Paine and Jefferson in the Age of Revolutions
Newman, Simon P., Onuf, Peter S.The enormous popularity of his pamphlet Common Sense made Thomas Paine one of the best-known patriots during the early years of American independence. His subsequent...
Keep Your Head to the Sky
Interpreting African American Home Ground
Gundaker, GreyThe concept of African American home ground knits together diverse aspects of the American landscape, from elite suburbs and tower apartments to the old homeplaces of the...
Creating the British Atlantic
Essays on Transplantation, Adaptation, and Continuity
Greene, Jack P.Set mostly within an expansive British imperial and transatlantic framework, this new selection of writings from the renowned historian Jack P. Greene draws on themes he has...
Monacan Millennium
A Collaborative Archaeology and History of a Virginia Indian People
Hantman, Jeffrey L.While Jamestown and colonial settlements dominate narratives of Virginia’s earliest days, the land’s oldest history belongs to its native people. Monacan Millennium...
Virginia Folk Legends
Barden, Thomas E.What do devil dogs, witches, haunted houses, Daniel Boone, Railroad Bill, "Justice John" Crutchfield, and lost silver mines have in common? All are among the subjects included...
Harry Byrd of Virginia
Heinemann, Ronald L.This is the first full-scale biography of Harry Byrd Sr., one of the most influential politicians of this century. His fascinating career as Virginia governor, U.S. senator,...
Reinterpreting New England Indians and the Colonial Experience
Calloway, Colin G., Salisbury, NealFor the indigenous peoples of New England--the Abenaki, Mohegan, Mohican, Narragansett, Nipmuc, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Pequot, Schaghticoke, Wampanoag, and other tribal...
Religious Freedom
Jefferson’s Legacy, America's Creed
Ragosta, John A.For over one hundred years, Thomas Jefferson and his Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom have stood at the center of our understanding of religious liberty and the First...
The Mind of Thomas Jefferson
Onuf, Peter S.In The Mind of Thomas Jefferson, one of the foremost historians of Jefferson and his time, Peter S. Onuf, offers a collection of essays that seeks to historicize one of our...
The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War
Towers, FrankThe role the rural South and its plantation system played in the secession of the Confederate states is well established, but historian Frank Towers contends that we should...
Parlor Politics
In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government
Allgor, CatherineWhen Thomas Jefferson moved his victorious Republican administration into the new capital city in 1801, one of his first acts was to abolish any formal receptions, except on...
The Diaries of Gouverneur Morris
New York, 1799-1816
Morris, Gouverneur, Miller, Melanie RandolphOn January 5, 1799, a day that was "cold and like for Snow," Gouverneur Morris left the city of New York after dinner and then, as he recorded in his diary, went "to my House...
Hot Potato
How Washington and New York Gave Birth to Black Basketball and Changed America's Game Forever
Kuska, Bob"The players today are much better than we were.... But there is one thing that we could do better. We could pass the ball better than they can now. Man, we used to pass that...