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  • Katharine and R.J. Reynolds

    Partners of Fortune in the Making of the New South

    by Michele Gillespie ...
    "A tour de force . . . a top-notch study of a powerful couple negotiating the shifting socioeconomic world of the New South and early corporate America."— Journal of American HistorySeparately they were formidable—together they were unstoppable. Despite their intriguing lives and the deep impact they had on their community and region, the story of Richard Joshua Reynolds and Katharine Smith ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Neither Lady nor Slave

    Working Women of the Old South

    Edited by Susanna Delfino, Michele Gillespie ...
    Although historians over the past two decades have written extensively on the plantation mistress and the slave woman, they have largely neglected the world of the working woman. Neither Lady nor Slave pushes southern history beyond the plantation to examine the lives and labors of ordinary southern women--white, free black, and Indian.Contributors to this volume illuminate women's involvement in ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Southern Society and Its Transformations, 1790-1860

    Edited by Susanna Delfino, Michele Gillespie, Louis M. Kyriakoudes ...
    Series Book 1 - New Currents in the History of Southern Economy and Society
    In Southern Society and Its Transformations, a new set of scholars challenge conventional perceptions of the antebellum South as an economically static region compared to the North. Showing that the pre-Civil War South was much more complex than once thought, the essays in this volume examine the economic lives and social realities of three overlooked but important groups of southerners: the ... Read more

    $47.29 CAD

  • North Carolina Women

    Their Lives and Times, Volume 1

    by Angela Robbins, Corey Stewart, Cynthia A. Kierner, Elizabeth Lundeen, James Alsop, Jim Downs, John C. Inscoe, Margaret Smith, Robert Hunt Ferguson, Sarah Wilkerson Freeman, Sarah H. Hill, Sheila R. Phipps, Suzanne Cooper Guasco, Terrell Armistead Crow, Vivian M. May, William A. Link, Jon F. Sensbach ...
    North Carolina has had more than its share of accomplished, influential women—women who have expanded their sphere of influence or broken through barriers that had long defined and circumscribed their lives, women such as Elizabeth Maxwell Steele, the widow and tavern owner who supported the American Revolution; Harriet Jacobs, runaway slave, abolitionist, and author of Incidents in the Life of a ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD

  • Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Birth of Modern America

    by Charlene Regester, William Link, Jane M. Gaines, David Stricklin, John David Smith, Cynthia Lynn Lyerly, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Louis Menand, Scott Romine ...
    Series series Making the Modern South
    "A sweeping yet rigorous analysis of Dixon and his work. The collection approaches the southern intellectual through multiple methodologies -- from literary theory and film studies to social history and religious studies. We get an exhaustive yet diverse perspective on Dixon's influence and legacy." -- Journal of American HistoryThomas Dixon Jr. (1864--1946), best remembered today as the author of ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • North Carolina Women

    Their Lives and Times, Volume 2

    by Ann Short Chirhart, Emily Wilson, M. Anna Fariello, Jane Becker, Elizabeth Gillespie McRae, Jessica Wilkerson, Rebecca Godwin, Joey Fink, Lauren Winner, Melissa Walker Heidari, Heather Bryson, Eileen Boris, Lu Jones, Sarah C. Thuesen, Amy Hill Hearth, Anna Ragland Hayes ...
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    By the twentieth century, North Carolina’s progressive streak had strengthened, thanks in large part to a growing number of women who engaged in and influenced state and national policies and politics. These women included Gertrude Weil who fought tirelessly for the Nineteenth Amendment, which extended suffrage to women, and founded the state chapter of the League of Women Voters once the ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD

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  • A Shining Thread of Hope

    The History of Black Women in America

    by Darlene Clark Hine, Kathleen Thompson ...
    At the greatest moments and in the cruelest times, black women have been a crucial part of America's history. Now, the inspiring history of black women in America is explored in vivid detail by two leaders in the fields of African American and women's history.A Shining Thread of Hope chronicles the lives of black women from indentured servitude in the early American colonies to the cruelty of ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Claims of Kinfolk

    African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South

    by Dylan C. Penningroth ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    In The Claims of Kinfolk, Dylan Penningroth uncovers an extensive informal economy of property ownership among slaves and sheds new light on African American family and community life from the heyday of plantation slavery to the “freedom generation” of the 1870s. By focusing on relationships among blacks, as well as on the more familiar struggles between the races, Penningroth exposes a dynamic ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow

    Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present

    by Jacqueline Jones ...
    The forces that shaped the institution of slavery in the American South endured, albeit in altered form, long after slavery was abolished. Toiling in sweltering Virginia tobacco factories or in the kitchens of white families in Chicago, black women felt a stultifying combination of racial discrimination and sexual prejudice. And yet, in their efforts to sustain family ties, they shared a common ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Birthright Citizens

    A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America

    by Martha S. Jones ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    Before the Civil War, colonization schemes and black laws threatened to deport former slaves born in the United States. Birthright Citizens recovers the story of how African American activists remade national belonging through battles in legislatures, conventions, and courthouses. They faced formidable opposition, most notoriously from the US Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott. Still, Martha S. ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

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  • Like a Family

    The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World

    by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, James L. Leloudis, Robert R. Korstad, Robert R. Korstad, Mary Murphy, Lu Ann Jones, Christopher B. Daly ...
    Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history. Basing their research on a series of extraordinary interviews, letters, and articles from the trade press, the authors uncover the voices and experiences of workers in the Southern cotton mill industry during the 1920s and 1930s. Now with a new afterword, this edition stands as an ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • Moments of Despair

    Suicide, Divorce, and Debt in Civil War Era North Carolina

    by David Silkenat ...
    During the Civil War era, black and white North Carolinians were forced to fundamentally reinterpret the morality of suicide, divorce, and debt as these experiences became pressing issues throughout the region and nation. In Moments of Despair, David Silkenat explores these shifting sentiments.Antebellum white North Carolinians stigmatized suicide, divorce, and debt, but the Civil War undermined ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD