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Stalking the Great Killer
Arkansas's Long War on Tuberculosis
Americans today, having gained control of the disease in the United States, seldom look back. Yet in the age of the Covid-19 pandemic, this compelling history, based on extensive research and eyewitness testimony, offers valuable lessons for the present about community involvement in public health, the potential efficacy of public-private partnerships, and the importance of forward-thinking leadership in the battle to eradicate disease.
Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia
Powhatan People and the Color Line
Spanning a century of fraught history, Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia describes the critical strategic work that tidewater Virginia Indians, descendants of the seventeenth-century Algonquian Powhatan chiefdom, undertook to sustain their Native identity in the face of deep racial hostility from segregationist officials, politicians, and institutions.
Stigma Cities
The Reputation and History of Birmingham, San Francisco, and Las Vegas
The first work to investigate the important effects of stigmatized identities on urban places, Foster’s innovative study suggests that reputation, no less than physical and economic forces, explains how cities develop and why. An absorbing work of history and urban sociology, the book illuminates the significance of ideas in shaping metropolitan history.
Rivers of Power
Creek Political Culture in the Native South, 1750–1815
Weaving a new narrative of the Creeks and outlining the contours of their riverine mode of governance, this work unpacks the fraught dimensions of political power in the Native South—and, indeed, Native North America—in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. By privileging Indigenous thought and intertribal history, it also advances the larger project of Native American history.
Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind
James Montgomery and His War on Slavery
A controversial character largely known (as depicted in the movie Glory) as a Union colonel who led Black soldiers in the Civil War, James Montgomery (1814–71) waged a far more personal and radical war against slavery than popular history suggests. It is the true story of this militant abolitionist that Todd Mildfelt and David D. Schafer tell in Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind, summoning a life fiercely lived in struggle against the expansion of slavery into the West and during the Civil War.
Cherokee Power
Imperial and Indigenous Geopolitics in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1670–1774
In Cherokee Power, Kristofer Ray brings long-overdue clarity to this question by highlighting the role of the Overhill Cherokees in shaping imperial and Indigenous geopolitics in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America.
Building a House Divided
Slavery, Westward Expansion, and the Roots of the Civil War
The long view of the path to the Civil War, as charted through the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian eras in this book, reveals the critical fault in the nation’s foundation, exacerbated by slaveholding expansionists like Jefferson, Jackson, Polk, and Douglas, until the house they built upon it could no longer stand for two opposite ideas at once.
Soldiers in the Army of Freedom
The 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil War's First African American Combat Unit
Soldiers in the Army of Freedom is the first published account of this largely forgotten regiment—in particular, its contribution to Union victory in the trans-Mississippi theater of the Civil War. As such, it restores the First Kansas Colored Infantry to its rightful place in American history.
The River Was Dyed with Blood
Nathan Bedford Forrest and Fort Pillow
The battlefield reputation of Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest, long recognized as a formidable warrior, has been shaped by one infamous wartime incident. At Fort Pillow in 1864, the attack by Confederate forces under Forrest’s command left many of the Tennessee Unionists and black soldiers garrisoned there dead in a confrontation widely labeled as a “massacre.” In The River Was Dyed with Blood, Brian Steel Wills argues that although atrocities did occur after the fall of the fort, Forrest did not order or intend a systematic execution of its defenders. Rather, the general’s great failing was losing control of his troops.
Southern Gambit
Cornwallis and the British March to Yorktown
Ultimately, strategic incoherence, ineffective command and control, and a misreading of the situation contributed to the series of cascading failures of the British effort. Carpenter’s analysis of how and why this happened expands our understanding of the British decision-making and operations in the Southern Campaign and their fateful consequences in the War for Independence.
Stalking the Great Killer
Arkansas's Long War on Tuberculosis
Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia
Powhatan People and the Color Line
Stigma Cities
The Reputation and History of Birmingham, San Francisco, and Las Vegas
Rivers of Power
Creek Political Culture in the Native South, 1750–1815
Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind
James Montgomery and His War on Slavery
Cherokee Power
Imperial and Indigenous Geopolitics in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1670–1774
Building a House Divided
Slavery, Westward Expansion, and the Roots of the Civil War
Soldiers in the Army of Freedom
The 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil War's First African American Combat Unit
The River Was Dyed with Blood
Nathan Bedford Forrest and Fort Pillow
The battlefield reputation of Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest, long recognized as a formidable warrior, has been shaped by one infamous wartime incident. At Fort Pillow in 1864, the attack by Confederate forces under Forrest’s command left many of the Tennessee Unionists and black soldiers garrisoned there dead in a confrontation widely labeled as a “massacre.” In The River Was Dyed with Blood, Brian Steel Wills argues that although atrocities did occur after the fall of the fort, Forrest did not order or intend a systematic execution of its defenders. Rather, the general’s great failing was losing control of his troops.