This analysis of the contours and social bases of mass voting behavior in the United States over the course of the third electoral era, from 1853 to 1892 ...

This book is a study of the slow growth of the movement for reform, the basis of opposition, the gradual success that was achieved, and the close relationship ...

The Westons were among the most well-known abolitionists in antebellum Massachusetts, and each of the Weston sisters played an integral role in the family's ...

Stepfamilies are not a modern phenomenon, but despite this reality, the history of stepfamilies in America has yet to be fully explored. In the first book-length ...

In this sweeping regional history, anthropologist Robbie Ethridge traces the metamorphosis of the Native South from first contact in 1540 to the dawn of ...

In the years immediately following the Civil War--the formative years for an emerging society of freed African Americans in Mississippi--there was much ...

Theodore Parker (1810-1860) was a powerful preacher who rejected the authority of the Bible and of Jesus, a brilliant scholar who became a popular agitator ...

This volume, the proceedings of the third international conference held in Washington, D.C., in December 1963, consists of forty-five papers representing ...

Through the Garden Gate is a collection of 144 of the popular weekly articles that Elizabeth Lawrence wrote for the Charlotte Observer from 1957 to ...

In a dazzling array of the most recent research and writing, the contributors deal with Wilson's approach to the Mexican and Russian revolutions; his Polish ...