In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America 9781479823116

In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America 9781479871377

Uncovers the hidden role of girls and women in the desegregation of American education The story of school desegregati

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Rebecca Gratz : Women and Judaism in Antebellum America 9780814341018, 9780814341001

This is the first in-depth biography of Rebecca Gratz (1781-1869), the foremost American Jewish woman of the nineteenth

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The Politics of Black Empowerment: The Transformation of Black Activism in Urban America 9780814336618, 0814336612

The Politics of Black Empowerment uses the experiences of grassroots activists to develop various conceptualizations and

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The Politics of Black Empowerment: The Transformation of Black Activism in Urban America 9780814336618, 0814336612

The Politics of Black Empowerment uses the experiences of grassroots activists to develop various conceptualizations and

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In Pursuit of Knowledge: Scholars, Status, and Academic Culture 9780804768177

Although academics have never lacked for critics, publications on the profession tend to be either popularized polemics,

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Radical Pacifists in Antebellum America 9781400878734

Selected portions from Pacifism in the United States: From the Colonial Era to the First World War Originally publishe

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Investing in the Educational Success of Black Women and Girls 9781620367988, 2021045673, 2021045674, 9781620367964, 9781620367971, 9781620367995

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Rewriting Sex: Sexual Knowledge in Antebellum America: A Brief History with Documents 9781403971555, 9781349736102, 9781137054135, 1403971552

The public discussion of sexuality in America first came about in the 1820s. Predictably, Americans diverged considerabl

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Reading and Disorder in Antebellum America [first ed.] 9780814211588

Historians of workingmen in the antebellum United States have long been preoccupied with labor politics and with the rac

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The Business of Letters: Authorial Economies in Antebellum America 9781503626782

Traditionally, scholars of authorship in antebellum America have approached their subject through the lens of profession

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