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Gender And The Jubilee - Black Freedom And The Reconstruction Of Citizenship In Civil War Missouri

by Sharon Romeo

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 Gender and the Jubilee is a bold reconceptualization of black freedom during the Civil War that uncovers the political and constitutional claims made by African American women. By analyzing the actions of women in the urban environment of St. Louis and the surrounding areas of rural Missouri, Romeo uncovers the confluence of military events, policy changes, and black agency that shaped the gendered paths to freedom and citizenship. During the turbulent years of the Civil War crisis, African American women asserted their vision of freedom through a multitude of strategies. They took concerns ordinarily under the jurisdiction of civil courts, such as assault and child custody, and transformed them into military matters. African American women petitioned military police for "free papers"; testified against former owners; fled to contraband camps; and "joined the army" with their male relatives, serving as cooks, laundresses, and nurses. Freedwomen, and even enslaved women, used military courts to lodge complaints against employers and former masters, sought legal recognition of their marriages, and claimed pensions as the widows of war veterans. Through military venues, African American women in a state where the institution of slavery remained unmolested by the Emancipation Proclamation, demonstrated a claim on citizenship rights well before they would be guaranteed through the establishment of the Fourteenth Amendment. The litigating slave women of antebellum St. Louis, and the female activists of the Civil War period, left a rich legal heritage to those who would continue the struggle for civil rights in the postbellum era.
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The Legal Ideology Of Removal - The Southern Judiciary And The Sovereignty Of Native American Nations

by Tim Alan Garrison

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 This study demonstrates how state courts enabled the mass propulsion of Native Americans from their southern homelands in the 1830s. The author argues that our understanding of this period is too often moulded around the towering personalities of the Indian removal debate.
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Signposts - New Directions In Southern Legal History

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 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. Taken together, the essays show us that understanding how law changes over time is essential to understanding the history of the South.
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Ossabaw - Evocations Of An Island

by James Kilgo e Philip D. Beidler

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 A wild paradise of woodlands, beaches, and tidal marshes off the Georgia coast, Ossabaw Island is a heritage preserve that will forever remain undeveloped. This volume brings together the photography of Jack Leigh, paintings by Alan Campbell, and essays by James Kilgo to capture its unique beauty.
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The Dragon'S Wings - The China National Aviation Corporation And The Development Of Commercial Aviation In China

by William M. Leary

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 His history of CNAC offers insights into the history of modern China and sheds light on several key aspects of Sino-American diplomatic and business relations.
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An Inquiry Into The Law Of Negro Slavery In The United States Of America

by Thomas R. R. Cobb

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 The first and only treatise published by a southern author on slavery law. Based on extensive scholarship on the Roman law of slavery and racist to the core, the work fully explicates the southern defense of slavery.
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Sam Henry'S "Songs Of The People"

by Sam Henry

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 Comprising nearly 690 selections, this thoroughly annotated and indexed collection is a treasure for anyone who performs, composes, studies, collects, or simply enjoys folk music. It is valuable as an outstanding record of Irish folk songs before World War II.
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Trickster Lives - Culture And Myth In American Fiction

by Jeanne Campbell Reessman

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 A collection of essays which explore the cross cultural origins of the trickster in American literature. The trickster has appeared in such characters as Huckleberry Finn And Nanapush and can lead the way to the unconscious, the concealed, and the seemingly unattainable.
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The Star Creek Papers

by Horace Mann Bond e Julia W. Bond

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 The never-before-published account of the complex realities of race relations in the rural South in the 1930s by Horace Bond, author of Forty Acres and a Mule, a history of a black farming family, after Jerome Wilson was lynched in 1935. These important primary documents were rediscovered by civil rights scholar Adam Fairclough.
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The History Of The Medical College Of Georgia

by Phinizy Spalding

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 Spalding traces the development of Georgiaâ€™s oldest medical school from the initial plans of a small group of physicians to the five-school complex found in Augusta in the late 1980s. Charting a course of achievement, he shows how the college was intimately bound to the local community, state politics, and the national medical establishment.
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The Constitution, Law, And American Life - Critical Aspects Of The Nineteenth-Century Experience

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 The eight essays in this volume imaginatively explore the interrelationship between law and society in nineteenth-century America and encompass in their discussion some of the major historical issues of the era.
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The Girl'S Own - Cultural Histories Of The Anglo-American Girl, 1830-1915

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 The eleven contributors to The Girlâ€™s Own explore British and American Victorian representations of the adolescent girl by drawing on such contemporary sources as conduct books, housekeeping manuals, periodicals, biographies, photographs, paintings, and educational treatises.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu And The Eighteenth-Century Familiar Letter

by Cynthia J. Lowenthal

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 The first critical study of one of the most important women writers of the early eighteenth century, Lady Mary Montagu (1689â€"1762), who produced a body of erudite and entertaining correspondence that spanned more than fifty years. Her letters illuminate the difficulties she encountered in an era of significant cultural change.
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Criminal Justice In Colonial America, 1606â€“1660

by Bradley Chapin

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 Analyzes the development of criminal law during the first several generations of American life. Its comparison of the substantive and procedural law among the colonies reveals the similarities and differences between the New England and the Chesapeake colonies. Chapin gives a wealth of detail on statutory and common-law rulings.
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The Life Of The Party - Festive Vision In Modern Fiction

by Christopher P. Ames

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 Ames argues that the private party has become the festival of modern culture and has served as a shaping force in literature. With his creative application of literary theory and ethnographic studies of festival, Ames demonstrates the persistence of the festive vision and its significance in the evolution of modern fiction.
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At The Hinge Of History - A Reporter'S Story

by Joseph C. Harsch e Joseph Fromm

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 In a news career spanning more than sixty years, Joseph C. Harsch was a firsthand witness to many of the great events of the twentieth century. As a correspondent for all three of the major networks, he became one of the most respected figures in the profession, a mentor to a generation of journalists covering international affairs.
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A Peculiar Humanism - The Judicial Advocacy Of Slavery In High Courts Of The Old South 1820-1850

by William E. Wiethoff

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 In A Peculiar Humanism, William E. Wiethoff assesses the judicial use of oratory in reviewing slave cases and the struggle to fashion a humanist jurisprudence on slavery despite the customary restraints placed on judicial advocacy.
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Democracy Delayed - Congressional Reapportionment And Urban-Rural Conflict In The 1920s

by Charles W. Eagles

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 Historians have customarily explained the 1920s in terms of urban-rural conflict, arguing that cultural, ethnic, and economic differences between urban and rural Americans influenced political conflict in the decade. Eagles uses the issue of congressional reapportionment to examine politics in the 1920s and to test the urban-rural thesis.
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Conrad Aiken - Poet Of White Horse Vale

by Edward Butscher

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 The first of a planned two-volume biography that follows Aikenâ€™s early life from his birth in 1889 to 1925 when he stood on the threshold of both nervous breakdown and poetic success. Butscher follows the poetâ€™s life and work as he sought to regain, in some permanent form, the idyll he had lost as a child.
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From Maverick To Mainstream - Cumberland School Of Law, 1847â€“1997

by David J. Langum e Howard P. Walthall

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 Founded in 1847 in Lebanon, Tennessee, the Cumberland School of Law was the premier law school in the South in the nineteenth century and trained two United States Supreme Court justices, nine senators, a secretary of state, and scores of other federal and state judges, representatives, and governors.
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The Art And Life Of Clarence Major

by Keith E. Byerman

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 In the first critical biography of Clarence Major, Byerman traces his life and career from his complex family history in Georgia through his encounters with important literary and artistic figures in Chicago and New York to his present status as a respected writer, artist, teacher, and scholar living in California.
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James Mchenry, Forgotten Federalist

by Karen E. Robbins

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Gender And The Jubilee - Black Freedom And The Reconstruction Of Citizenship In Civil War Missouri

by Sharon Romeo

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 By analyzing the actions of African American women in the urban environment of St. Louis and the surrounding areas of rural Missouri, Romeo uncovers the confluence of military events, policy changes, and black agency that shaped the gendered paths to freedom and citizenship during and after the CIvil War.
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The Cincinnati Arch - Learning From Nature In The City

by John Tallmadge

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 Tallmadge tells of dismaying early encounters with Cincinnati's seeming barenness, his growing awareness of its vitality and abundance, and finally his new vision of all nature, from the vacant lots of his neighborhood to our great New England forests and Western deserts.
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