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With a Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum
Francis Cheetham's classic survey of English medieval alabasters includes a richly illustrated catalogue of the Victoria and Albert Museum's unparalle...
Cultural Newcomers to Lukumi and Santería in the United States
In the Afro-Cuban Lukumi religious tradition—more commonly known in the United States as Santería—entrants into the priesthood undergo an extraor...
A Cultural History of 1940s Interracial America
Following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the U.S. government rounded up more than one hundred thousand Japanese Americans and sent them to in...
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Catholic Women in Memphis, 1950–1970
This book examines the intersections of faith, race, and gender within the social justice movement in the civil rights era in Memphis, Tennessee. The ...
Includes names from the States of Alabama, Arkansas, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Okl...
Paul, Castel, Iles, LaPrairie, Smith
Personal Accounts and Reflections
The Educational Lockout of African Americans in Prince Edward County, Virginia (1959-1964): Personal Accounts and Reflections provides ground-breaking...
A Bibliography of Published Sources
The Genealogy Annual is a comprehensive bibliography of the year's genealogies, handbooks, and source materials. It is divided into three main section...
Catholic Religious Practice in Twentieth-Century America
"For generations, American Catholics... lived out their faith through countless unremarkable routines. Deep questions of theology usually meant little...
1970: July-December
One of the most enduring characters in Thomas Wolfe's fiction is Francis Starwick, the Midwestern aesthete who befriends Eugene Grant at Harvard in Wo...
African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia
Lisa Levenstein reframes highly charged debates over the origins of chronic African American poverty and the social policies and political struggles t...
The Moynihan Report and Its Legacy
Shortly after the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Daniel Patrick Moynihan authored a government report titled The Negro Family: A Case for National Action that...
The Struggle for Workers' Rights in a Catholic Hospital
When unions undertake labor organizing campaigns, they often do so from strong moral positions, contrasting workers’ rights to decent pay or better ...
From Customary Law to Human Rights in Tanzania
An analysis of the relationships between law, custom, gender, marriage and justice among northern Tanzania’s Maasai communities. When, where, why, a...
With Critical Observations on Their Works and Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons
Rhetorics of the Civil Rights Mass Meeting
Original archival research invites new ways of understanding the rhetorics of the civil rights movement In Liturgy of Change, Elizabeth Ellis Miller e...
An important study of how Swift's texts were circulated, and the different meanings of print and manuscript in his career....
Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect, 1890-1952
Stephen E. Ambrose draws upon extensive sources, an unprecedented degree of scholarship, and numerous interviews with Dwight D. Eisenhower himself to ...
A history of this national park written in conjunction with its 50th anniversary....
Marking the 100th Anniversary of Building St Paul's Anglican Church, Newbliss in 1904
Before Affirmative Action, 1940-1972
Winner of the Pfizer Award for Outstanding Book in the History of Science Margaret Rossiter's widely hailed Women Scientists in America: Struggles and...
Civil Rights, Public Space, and Miami s Virginia Key
Florida Historical Society Harry T. and Hariette V. Moore Award Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal for Florida Nonfiction In May 1945, activists st...
a current biographical reference service
From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification
An exploration of how the Windy City became a postwar Latinx metropolis in the face of white resistance. Though Chicago is often popularly defined by ...
Maps and atlases
The record of each copyright registration listed in the Catalog includes a description of the work copyrighted and data relating to the copyright clai...
Training, Flying, and Fighting the 1941 to 1945 New Guinea War
An aged and glossy leather briefcase was discovered when our family house was cleaned out and sold. We came to learn that my father had meticulously c...
In 1898 the American Regular Army was a small frontier constabulary engaged in skirmishes with Indians and protesting workers; 43 years later, it was ...
Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973, with a New Preface
The definitive history of abortion in the United States, with a new preface that equips readers for what’s to come. When Abortion Was a Crime is the...
Chaucer on Overcoming Tyranny and Becoming Ourselves
In The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer asks a basic human question: How do we overcome tyranny? His answer goes to the heart of a revolutionary way...