"When historian Alfred "Alf" Clayton is invited by an academic journal to record his impressions of the Gerald R. Ford Administration (1974-77), he recalls not the political events of the time but rather a turbulent period of his own sexual past. Alf's highly idiosyncratic contribution to Retrospect consists not only of reams of unbuttoned personal history but also of pages from an unpublished project of the time, a chronicle of the presidency of James Buchanan (1857-61). The alternating texts mirror each other and tell a story in counterpoint, a frequently hilarious comedy of manners contrasting the erotic etiquette and social dictions of antebellum Washington with those of late-twentieth-century southern New Hampshire. Alf's style is Nabokovian. His obsessions are vintage Updike. " [from Amazon.com]
Reprint. Published by arrangement with Houghton Mifflin.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-106) and index.
Summary
Includes diary entries, personal letters, and archival photographs to describe the experiences of boys, sixteen years old or younger, who fought in the Civil War.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-251) and index.
Contents
Dorothy's world: toys 100 years ago -- Machine-made toys -- Indoor toys and changing play -- Model kits -- Tournament toys and organized play -- Fad toys, marketing, and invention -- Toys that relive the past -- Tops -- Marbles -- Propellor toys -- Noisemakers I, II -- Hoops -- Dolls -- Shooters -- Blocks.
Summary
Considers how toys changed over the centuries in America as a rural society was gradually urbanized.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-300) and index.
Summary
"One of the most controversial figures in nineteenth-century American history, Thaddeus Stevens is best remembered for his role as congressional leader of the radical Republicans and as a chief architect of Reconstruction. Long painted by historians as a vindictive 'dictator of Congress,' out to punish the South at the behest of big business and his own ego, Stevens receives a more balanced treatment in Hans L. Trefousse's biography, which portrays him as an impassioned orator and a leader in the struggle against slavery. Trefousse traces Stevens's career through its major phases: from his days in the Pennsylvania state legislature, when he antagonized Freemasons, slaveholders, and Jacksonian Democrats, to his political involvement during Reconstruction, when he helped author the Fourteenth Amendment and spurred on the passage of the Reconstruction Acts and the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. Throughout, Trefousse explores the motivations for Stevens's lifelong commitment to racial equality, thus furnishing a fuller portrait of the man whose fervent opposition to slavery helped move his more moderate congressional colleagues toward the implementation of egalitarian policies."
Biographical memoir that focuses on the Lancaster, PA native General John Reynolds' military life: At West Point, in the war with Mexico, fighting renegade Native Americans inOregon, Commandant of the Cadet Corps at West Point, and during the Civil War.
Richard Brilliant ; with an essay by Ellen Smith ; research assistance provided by Elizabeth Lamb Clark.
ISBN
3791318632
Place of Publication
New York : Munich
Publisher
Jewish Museum under the auspices of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America ; Prestel,
Date of Publication
c1997.
Physical Description
xv, 111 p., 15 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map, ports. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Notes
Published in conjunction with the exhibition presented at the Jewish Museum, New York, Sept. 21, 1997-Jan. 11, 1998 and the Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Feb. 19-May 24, 1998.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-107) and indexes.
American Association for State and Local History book series
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-223).
Contents
Facing the past -- Remembrance -- Somewhere in time -- Speaking with the past -- Common ground -- Values at the core -- Intersections -- Friends and colleagues -- Everybody's business -- Facing the future -- A brief booklist -- About the author.
Summary
"Well-known public historian Robert Archibald's personal exploration of the intersections of history, memory, and community reveals how we participate in the making and sustaining of community as well as how we remember the community that shaped us. Writing in a rich literary narrative, Archibald blends local history, personal reminiscence, and an analysis of the changing meaning of community with a passionate call for more effective public history. A Place to Remember poetically illustrates how we are active participants in the past and the role and importance of history in contemporary life." [from Amazon.com]
edited by Joseph M. Hawes and Elizabeth I. Nybakken.
ISBN
0313262330 (alk. paper)
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Greenwood Press,
Date of Publication
1991.
Physical Description
viii, 435 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-393) and index.
Contents
The study of the American family / Joseph M. Hawes and Elizabeth I. Nybakken -- Changing approaches to the study of family life / Maris A. Vinovskis and Laura McCall -- The preindustrial family (1600-1815) / Ross W. Beales, Jr. -- The new model middle-class family (1815-1930) / Marilyn Dell Brady -- Families face the Great Depression (1930-1940) / Winifred D. Wandersee -- Families, World War II, and the baby boom (1940-1955) / Judith Sealander -- New rules : postwar families (1955-present) / Steven Mintz -- Women and families / Margaret M. Caffrey -- African American families / Karen Anderson -- Native American families / Nancy Shoemaker -- Immigrant working-class families / Selma Berrol.
