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The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865
Winner of the 1981 Bancroft Prize. Focusing primarily on the middle class, this study delineates the social, intellectual and psychological transforma...
Democracy and Public Life in the American City During the Nineteenth Century
Historian Mary P. Ryan traces the fate of public life and the emergence of ethnic, class, and gender conflict in the 19th-century city. Using as examp...
Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880
"On May 15, 1862, U.S. General Benjamin Butler, commander of occupied New Orleans, ordered that any women who publicly insulted Union soldiers be subj...
Tracing Women and Men through American History
In a sweeping synthesis of American history, Mary Ryan demonstrates how the meaning of male and female has evolved, changed, and varied over a span of...
From Colonial Times to the Present
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American Writing about Domesticity, 1830 to 1860
This stimulating book is a comprehensive record of the antebellum period. It examines various aspects of social history and intellectual history of th...
A Bicoastal History of North America
The history of the United States is often told as a movement westward, beginning at the Atlantic coast and following farmers across the continent. But...