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Companion To American Women'S History

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 The most important collection of essays on American Women''s History This collection incorporates the most influential and groundbreaking scholarship in the area of American women''s history, featuring twenty-three original essays on critical themes and topics. It assesses the past thirty years of scholarship, capturing the ways that women''s historians confront issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality. This second edition updates essays related to Indigenous women, slavery, the American Revolution, Civil War, the West, activism, labor, popular culture, civil rights, and feminism. It also includes a discussion of laws, capitalism, gender identity and transgender experience, welfare, reproductive politics, oral history, as well as an exploration of the perspectives of free Blacks and migrants and refugees. Spanning from the 15th through the 21st centuries, chapters show how historians of women, gender, and sexuality have challenged established chronologies and advanced new understandings of America''s political, economic, intellectual and social history. This edition also features a new essay on the history of women''s suffrage to coincide with the 100th anniversary of passage of the 19th Amendment, as well as a new article that carries issues of women, gender and sexuality into the 21st century. <ul> <li>Includes twenty-three original essays by leading scholars in American women''s, gender and sexuality history</li> <li>Highlights the most recent scholarship on the key debates and future directions of this popular and contemporary field</li> <li>Substantially updates the first edition with new authors and topics that represent the expanding fields of women, gender, and sexuality</li> <li>Engages issues of race, ethnicity, region, and class as they shape and are shaped by women''s and gender history</li> <li>Covers the breadth of American Women''s history, including Native women, colonial law and religion, slavery and freedom, women''s activism, work and welfare, culture and capitalism, the state, feminism, digital and oral history, and more</li> </ul> A Companion to American Women''s History, Second Edition is an ideal book for advanced undergraduates and graduate students studying American/U.S. women''s history, history of gender and sexuality, and African American women''s history. It will also appeal to scholars of these areas at all levels, as well as public historians working in museums, archives, and historic sites.
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Companion To U.S. Foreign Relations - Colonial Era To The Present

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 Covers the entire range of the history of U.S. foreign relations from the colonial period to the beginning of the 21st century. A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations is an authoritative guide to past and present scholarship on the history of American diplomacy and foreign relations from its seventeenth century origins to the modern day. This two-volume reference work presents a collection of historiographical essays by prominent scholars. The essays explore three centuries of America’s global interactions and the ways U.S. foreign policies have been analyzed and interpreted over time. Scholars offer fresh perspectives on the history of U.S. foreign relations; analyze the causes, influences, and consequences of major foreign policy decisions; and address contemporary debates surrounding the practice of American power. The Companion covers a wide variety of methodologies, integrating political, military, economic, social and cultural history to explore the ideas and events that shaped U.S. diplomacy and foreign relations and continue to influence national identity. The essays discuss topics such as the links between U.S. foreign relations and the study of ideology, race, gender, and religion; Native American history, expansion, and imperialism; industrialization and modernization; domestic and international politics; and the United States’ role in decolonization, globalization, and the Cold War. A comprehensive approach to understanding the history, influences, and drivers of U.S. foreign relation, this indispensable resource: <ul> <li>Examines significant foreign policy events and their subsequent interpretations</li> <li>Places key figures and policies in their historical, national, and international contexts</li> <li>Provides background on recent and current debates in U.S. foreign policy</li> <li>Explores the historiography and primary sources for each topic</li> <li>Covers the development of diverse themes and methodologies in histories of U.S. foreign policy </li> </ul> Offering scholars, teachers, and students unmatched chronological breadth and analytical depth, A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations: Colonial Era to the Present is an important contribution to scholarship on the history of America’s interactions with the world.
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A Companion To Custer And The Little Bighorn Campaign

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 A Companion to Custer and the Little Bighorn Campaign offers an accessible and authoritative overview of the scholarship that has shaped our understanding of one of the most iconic conflicts in the history of the American West.
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Companion To Dwight D. Eisenhower

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 A Companion to Dwight D. Eisenhower brings new depth to the historiography of this significant and complex figure, providing a comprehensive and up-to-date depiction of both the man and era. Thoughtfully incorporates new and significant literature on Dwight D. Eisenhower Thoroughly examines both the Eisenhower era and the man himself, broadening the historical scope by which Eisenhower is understood and interpreted Presents a complete picture of Eisenhower s many roles in historical context: the individual, general, president, politician, and citizen This Companion is the ideal starting point for anyone researching America during the Eisenhower years and an invaluable guide for graduate students and advanced undergraduates in history, political science, and policy studies Meticulously edited by a leading authority on the Eisenhower presidency with chapters by international experts on political, international, social, and cultural history
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Companion To The Gilded Age And Progressive Era

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 A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era presents a collection of new historiographic essays covering the years between 1877 and 1920, a period which saw the U.S. emerge from the ashes of Reconstruction to become a world power. The single, definitive resource for the latest state of knowledge relating to the history and historiography of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Features contributions by leading scholars in a wide range of relevant specialties Coverage of the period includes geographic, social, cultural, economic, political, diplomatic, ethnic, racial, gendered, religious, global, and ecological themes and approaches In today s era, often referred to as a second Gilded Age, this book offers relevant historical analysis of the factors that helped create contemporary society Fills an important chronological gap in period-based American history collections
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A Companion To Dwight D. Eisenhower

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 A Companion to Dwight D. Eisenhower brings new depth to the historiography of this significant and complex figure, providing a comprehensive and up-to-date depiction of both the man and era. * Thoughtfully incorporates new and significant literature on Dwight D.
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A Companion To The Gilded Age And Progressive Era

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 A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era presents a collection of new historiographic essays covering the years between 1877 and 1920, a period which saw the U.S. emerge from the ashes of Reconstruction to become a world power.
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Companion To First Ladies

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 This volume explores more than two centuries of literature on the First Ladies, from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama, providing the first historiographical overview of these important women in U.S. history. <ul> <li>Underlines the growing scholarly appreciation of the First Ladies and the evolution of the position since the 18th century</li> <li>Explores the impact of these women not only on White House responsibilities, but on elections, presidential policies, social causes, and in shaping their husbands’ legacies</li> <li>Brings the First Ladies into crisp historiographical focus, assessing how these women and their contributions have been perceived both in popular literature and scholarly debate</li> <li>Provides concise biographical treatments for each First Lady</li> </ul>
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A Companion To First Ladies

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 This volume explores more than two centuries of literature on the First Ladies, from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama, providing the first historiographical overview of these important women in U.S. history.
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Companion To The History Of American Science

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 A Companion to the History of American Science offers a collection of essays that give an authoritative overview of the most recent scholarship on the history of American science.
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Companion To Custer And The Little Bighorn Campaign

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 An accessible and authoritative overview of the scholarship that has shaped our understanding of one of the most iconic battles in the history of the American West Combines contributions from an array of respected scholars, historians, and battlefield scientists Outlines the political and cultural conditions that laid the foundation for the Centennial Campaign and examines how George Armstrong Custer became its figurehead Provides a detailed analysis of the battle maneuverings at Little Bighorn, paying special attention to Indian testimony from the battlefield Concludes with a section examining how the Battle of Little Bighorn has been mythologized and its pervading influence on American culture
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Companion To Ronald Reagan

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 A Companion to Ronald Reagan evaluates in unprecedented detail the events, policies, politics, and people of Reagan s administration. It assesses the scope and influence of his various careers within the context of the times, providing wide-ranging coverage of his administration, and his legacy.
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A Companion To Ronald Reagan

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 A Companion to Ronald Reagan evaluates in unprecedented detail the events, policies, politics, and people of Reagan s administration. It assesses the scope and influence of his various careers within the context of the times, providing wide-ranging coverage of his administration, and his legacy.
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A Companion To Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, And Herbert Hoover

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 With the analysis of the best scholars on this era, 29 essays demonstrate how academics then and now have addressed the political, economic, diplomatic, cultural, ethnic, and social history of the presidents of the Republican Era of 1921-1933 - Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover.
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Companion To John F. Kennedy

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 A Companion to John F. Kennedy presents a comprehensive collection of historiographical essays addressing the life and administration of the nation s 35th president.
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Companion To The Reconstruction Presidents, 1865 - 1881

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 A Companion to Reconstruction Presidents presents a series of original essays that explore a variety of important issues, themes, and debates associated with the presidencies of Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Rutherford B. Hayes.
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Companion To American Sport History

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 A Companion to American Sport History presents a collection of original essays that represent the first comprehensive analysis of scholarship relating to the burgeoning field of American sport history. The volume features contributions from many of the finest scholars working in the field of American sport history.
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Companion To The Meuse-Argonne Campaign

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 A Companion to the Meuse-Argonne Campaign provides an opportunity for World War I scholars to explore numerous facets of this battle, including its many controversies, in historiographical essays that reflect the current state of the field in each instance.
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Companion To California History

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 This volume of original essays by leading scholars is an innovative, thorough introduction to the history and culture of California from its inception to the present day.
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Companion To The U.S. Civil War

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 A Companion to the U.S. Civil War presents a comprehensive historiographical collection of essays covering all major military, political, social, and economic aspects of the American Civil War (1861-1865). More than 60 original essays that explore all the major military, political, social, and economic aspects of the period are featured. .
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Companion To The Antebellum Presidents, 1837 - 1861

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 A Companion to the Antebellum Presidents presents a series of original essays exploring our historical understanding of the role and legacy of the eight U.S. presidents who served in the significant period between 1837 and the start of the Civil War in 1861.
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A Companion To American Cultural History

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 A Companion to American Cultural History offers a historiographic overview of the scholarship, with special attention to the major studies and debates that have shaped the field, and an assessment of where it is currently headed.
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A Companion To California History

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 This volume of original essays by leading scholars is an innovative, thorough introduction to the history and culture of California from its inception to the present day.
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A Companion To American Environmental History

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 A Companion to American Environmental History gathers together a comprehensive collection of over 30 essays that examine the evolving and diverse field of American environmental history by combining a complete historiography with the most recent research and trends.
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