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Diary, 1861-1864 of Maria Massey Barringer describes life during the Civil War.
Author : Barringer family
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Page : 220 pages
File Size : 15,68 MB
Release : 1844
Category : Concord (N.C.)
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Diary, 1861-1864 of Maria Massey Barringer describes life during the Civil War.
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Page : 40 pages
File Size : 15,6 MB
Release : 1717
Category : Cabarrus County (N.C.)
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Articles on Irish houses containing drawings by James Reynolds.
Author : Gregory Michael Dorr
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,98 MB
Release : 2008-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0813927552
"Blending social, intellectual, legal, medical, gender, and cultural history, Segregation's Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia examines how eugenic theory and practice bolstered Virginia's various cultures of segregation - rich from poor, sick from well, able from disabled, male from female, and black and Native American from white. Of interest to historians, educators, biologists, physicians, and social workers, this study reminds readers that science is socially constructed."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Wilma A. Dunaway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 28,56 MB
Release : 2003-04-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521012164
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Author : Earl Barringer
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Page : 118 pages
File Size : 40,67 MB
Release : 1985
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Author : Jane Dailey
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 40,98 MB
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0807899186
Long before the Montgomery bus boycott ushered in the modern civil rights movement, black and white southerners struggled to forge interracial democracy in America. This innovative book examines the most successful interracial coalition in the nineteenth-century South, Virginia's Readjuster Party, and uncovers a surprising degree of fluidity in postemancipation southern politics. Melding social, cultural, and political history, Jane Dailey chronicles the Readjusters' efforts to foster political cooperation across the color line. She demonstrates that the power of racial rhetoric, and the divisiveness of racial politics, derived from the everyday experiences of individual Virginians--from their local encounters on the sidewalk, before the magistrate's bench, in the schoolroom. In the process, she reveals the power of black and white southerners to both create and resist new systems of racial discrimination. The story of the Readjusters shows how hard white southerners had to work to establish racial domination after emancipation, and how passionately black southerners fought each and every infringement of their rights as Americans.
Author : Wilma A. Dunaway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 12,1 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521012157
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Author : Volker M. Welter
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 23,80 MB
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1606066145
This volume analyzes the extraordinary patronage of modern architecture that the Tremaine family sustained for nearly four decades in the mid-twentieth century. From the late 1930s to the early 1970s, two brothers, Burton G. Tremaine and Warren D. Tremaine, and their respective wives, Emily Hall Tremaine and Katharine Williams Tremaine, commissioned approximately thirty architecture and design projects. Richard Neutra and Oscar Niemeyer designed the best-known Tremaine houses; Philip Johnson and Frank Lloyd Wright also created designs and buildings for the family that achieved iconic status in the modern movement. Focusing on the Tremaines’ houses and other projects, such as a visitor center at the meteor crater in Arizona, this volume explores the Tremaines’ architectural patronage in terms of the family’s motivations and values, exposing patterns in what may appear as an eclectic collection of modern architecture. Architectural historian Volker M. Welter argues that the Tremaines’ patronage was not driven by any single factor; rather, it stemmed from a network of motives comprising the clients’ practical requirements, their private and public lives, and their ideas about architecture and art.
Author : Libra R. Hilde
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 20,10 MB
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0813932181
In antebellum society, women were regarded as ideal nurses because of their sympathetic natures. However, they were expected to exercise their talents only in the home; nursing strange men in hospitals was considered inappropriate, if not indecent. Nevertheless, in defiance of tradition, Confederate women set up hospitals early in the Civil War and organized volunteers to care for the increasing number of sick and wounded soldiers. As a fledgling government engaged in a long and bloody war, the Confederacy relied on this female labor, which prompted a new understanding of women’s place in public life and a shift in gender roles. Challenging the assumption that Southern women’s contributions to the war effort were less systematic and organized than those of Union women, Worth a Dozen Men looks at the Civil War as a watershed moment for Southern women. Female nurses in the South played a critical role in raising army and civilian morale and reducing mortality rates, thus allowing the South to continue fighting. They embodied a new model of heroic energy and nationalism, and came to be seen as the female equivalent of soldiers. Moreover, nursing provided them with a foundation for pro-Confederate political activity, both during and after the war, when gender roles and race relations underwent dramatic changes. Worth a Dozen Men chronicles the Southern wartime nursing experience, tracking the course of the conflict from the initial burst of Confederate nationalism to the shock and sorrow of losing the war. Through newspapers and official records, as well as letters, diaries, and memoirs—not only those of the remarkable and dedicated women who participated, but also of the doctors with whom they served, their soldier patients, and the patients’ families—a comprehensive picture of what it was like to be a nurse in the South during the Civil War emerges.
Author : Lonnie R. Speer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 48,80 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803293427
The holding of prisoners of war has always been both a political and a military enterprise, yet the military prisons of the Civil War, which held more than four hundred thousand soldiers and caused the deaths of fifty-six thousand men, have been nearly forgotten. Now Lonnie R. Speer has brought to life the least-known men in the great struggle between the Union and the Confederacy, using their own words and observations as they endured a true ?hell on earth.? Drawing on scores of previously unpublished firsthand accounts, Portals to Hell presents the prisoners? experiences in great detail and from an impartial perspective. The first comprehensive study of all major prisons of both the North and the South, this chronicle analyzes the many complexities of the relationships among prisoners, guards, commandants, and government leaders.