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Contains 17 personal narratives by leading black women historians at various stages in their careers. The essays in this book show how - first as graduate students and then as professional historians - they entered and navigated the realm of higher education, a world concerned with and dominated by whites and men.

Brings together more than 200 period documents on topics including the settlement of Jamestown, the structure of government and society, labor, the economy, Indian-Anglo relations, and Bacon's Rebellion.

Presenting a collection of twelve essays, this volume explores how considering the religious history of American women can transform our dominant historical narratives. It covers a variety of topics - including Mormonism, the women's rights movement, Judaism, witchcraft trials, the civil rights movement, Catholicism, and more.

The only volume to deal specifically with this four-state region, this book describes in detail eighty-eight terrestrial mammals as well as thirty-three marine species that inhabit our offshore waters. The authors offer expert descriptions of each species. The importance of conservation is also discussed.

First published in 1985, and now expanded and revised to include a new chapter on women, the book explores the social, political, economic, and intellectual currents that shaped 19th century Brazil and whose reverberations continue to be felt throughout contemporary Brazilian society.

This study draws together scholarship on the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and its aftermath. Contributors hope to draw attention to the tragedy, to honour its victims, and to bring a clear historical voice to the debate over its legacy.

For readers of all levels of interest and expertise, this guide provides a clear, informative look at the ecology and biology of the dunes. Botanically accurate drawings by the author illustrate more than 50 trees, shrubs, vines, herbs, and grasses that can be found on the dunes. Keys, brief descriptions, and other facts about the plants also aid in identification.

This volume features 22 essays on the medieval European Catholic Church: the emergence of the laity within the church from the 11th to the 13th centuries, religion in concept and practice, women's choice, and mystics.

While the plays of classical France achieve an unprecedented scenic profession, what ultimately distinguishes classical drama is its unique awareness of its literary properties. This volume presents a critical analysis of French dramatic text.

Follows the Catawbas from their first contact with Europeans in the sixteenth century until they carved out a place in the American republic three centuries later. This title tells the story of Native agency, creativity, resilience, and endurance.

Creolization describes the cultural adaptations that occur when a community moves to a new geographic setting. Exploring the consciousness of peoples defined as 'creoles' who moved from the Old World to the New World, this work investigates the creolization of literary forms and genres in the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries.

Presenting anecdotes, fishing and hunting stories, and recollections of legendary local sportsmen and guides, this title presents a social history of these activities before the founding of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1934. It covers trout streams and trout fishing, lake fishing, and hunting.

During French colonial rule in Louisiana, nuns from the French Company of Saint Ursula came to New Orleans, where they educated women and girls of different descents, in literacy, numeracy, and the Catholic faith. By incorporating their story into the history of early America, this work exposes the limits of the republican model of national unity.

Features stories, poems, and essays that were born along the winding roads of Appalachia, in the vales of the Ozarks, and in the flatlands beyond, where mountain people traveled in the hillbilly diaspora. Here, wisdom is gleaned in coal-mining camps, at roadside vegetable stands, at dinners on church grounds, and on shady front porches.

This study reveals how African-American activists, public officials, intellectuals and artists sought to use radio to influence a national debate about racial equality in the 1940s. These broadcasts challenged the nation to reconcile its egalitarian ideals with its unjust treatment of minorities.

In this practical, how-to book on the problems and possibilities of gardening in the tricky environments officially known as zones 7 and 8, Ladendorf draws on her own experience, interviews and research for her weekly newspaper column, and visits to hundreds of public and private gardens.

The most complete and expert treatment of wild flower propagation and cultivation to date, this book offers a sure approach to gardening with native plants while practicing good conservation. Based on ten years of pioneering research, Growing and Propagating Wild Flowers features practical, easy-to-follow methods for raising native plants.

Little is known of the Furthman manuscript, here published, before its appearance in a London auction room in 1930, but the handwriting, spelling, and punctuation place it in the late sixteenth century. In a well-documented introduction, the editor discusses the probable relationships of the Furthman manuscript to other versions and its possible connection with Thomas Kyd.

Interest in the intersections of various kinds of discourse provides the basis for a closer look at diverse textual strategies of cultural legitimation. This collection presents an introductory essay and eleven studies (written in English and German) that address claims to authority associated with differing kinds of texts from such varied perspectives as political performance, popular culture, history of science, interrelations between verbal texts and other arts, and artistic professionalism. Read together, these studies illuminate historical contingencies and reveal important changes in the "technologies of authority" from the twelfth through the eighteenth centuries.The contributors are Claire Baldwin, Thomas Cramer, Arthur Groos, Walter Haug, C. Stephen Jaeger, Jane O. Newman, James F. Poag, David Price, Rudiger Schnell, Lynne Tatlock, Horst Wenzel, and Gerhild Scholz Williams.

An examination of the origin and legacies of the captive exchange economy within and among the Native Americans and Euro-American communities throughout the Southwest borderlands from the Spanish colonial era to the end of the 19th century.