The Life and Writings of a Pan-Africanist Pioneer, 1799-1851
John Brown Russwurm (1799-1851) played a pioneering role as an educator, abolitionist, editor, government official, emigrationist and colonizationist. He is the first African American graduate of Maine's Bowdoin College, and co-founder of Freedom's Journal. This title presents an account of Russwurm's life.
At least 8,000 Jewish soldiers fought for the Union and Confederacy during the Civil War. A few served together in Jewish companies while most fought alongside Christian comrades. Yet even as they stood 'shoulder-to-shoulder' on the front lines, they encountered unique challenges. This title assembles scholarship on Jews and the Civil War.
U.S. Imperialism and the Problem of the Color Line
During the height of 19th century imperialism, Rudyard Kipling published his famous poem The White Man's Burden. This title creates a fresh historical frame for understanding race and literature in America. It maintains that literature symptomized and channelled anxiety about the racial components of the US world mission.
English Country Dance and the Politics of the Folk in Modern America
Presents the story of English Country Dance, from its 18th century roots in the English cities and countryside, to its transatlantic leap to the US in the 20th century, told by not only a renowned historian but also a folk dancer, who has both immersed himself in the rich history of the folk tradition and rehearsed its steps.
The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650-1850
Challenges readers to alter their conceptual frameworks about Africans by looking at them as workers who, through the course of the Atlantic slave trade and plantation labor, shaped the development of the Americas
Clerks and the Quest for Capital in Nineteenth-Century America
Illuminates the power of the ideology of self-making and the important contests over the meanings of respectability, manhood, and citizenship that helped to determine who clerks were and who they would become.
Class and Masculinities on the Texas Frontier, 1865-1900
Explores how, in contrast to the mythic image, from the late 1870s on, as the Texas frontier became more settled and the open range disappeared, the real cowboys faced increasing demands from the people around them to rein in the very traits that Americans considered the most masculine.
From the lights that never go out on Broadway to its 24-hour subway system, New York City isn't called 'the city that never sleeps' for nothing. This book reveals several of the remaining hidden gems of Manhattan's nineteenth- and twentieth-century entertainment industry.