Clara Barton learned of problems when the Reverend W. A. Campbell came repeatedly to the Red Cross to discuss the manner of distribution of goods to African Americans in Galveston. Reverend Campbell wrote an appeal to Barton in which he ...
... 65 Lykes Steamship Company, 133 Mallory Line (Steamship Company), 64, 91 Mardi Gras, 139 Marlborough, Duchess, and Dowager Duchess of 67 Matagorda Bay, Io McCashin, Mrs. L. A., 12 McCauley, J. P., 28 McComb, David G., 5 McConn, ...
Mary Fowler Bornefeld to Annette Finnigan, n.d. (October or November 1914, McCallum Papers (quotation). 45. MFC to Annette Finnigan, n.d. [November or December 1914, McCallum Papers. 46. MFC to Annette Finnigan, n.d. January 1915, ibid.
Edward Ayers, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Nancy Hewitt, Elizabeth Hanson, and Judy McArthur read the whole manuscript and made cogent recommendations for changes. I am especially grateful to Nancy Hewitt, whose collegiality knows no bounds.
Professor, University of Virginia; author, The New South Creed: A Study in Southern Mythmaking (1970); Women of Fair Hope (1984); Man and Mission: E. B. Gaston and the Origins of the Fairhope Single Tax Colony (1993).
"[The] collection of essays and documents in these volumes provides a comprehensive view of the culture of the American South as well as its political, social, and economic history.
But Jemison sees her legacy in broader terms, her status as the first African American female astronaut provided her with “a ... David J. Shayler and Ian Moule, Women in Space—Following Valentina (Chichester, U.K.: Praxis, 2005), 43–67.
In every age and in every culture there have been women who challenged the prevailing gender prescriptions and struck a nerve, resulting in waves of either change or repression. In...
The collection of essays and documents in MAJOR PROBLEMS IN THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH provides a comprehensive view of the culture of the American South as well as its political, social, and economic history.
"This is a collection of biographies and composite essays of Texas women, contextualized over the course of history to include subjects that reflect the enormous racial, class, and religious diversity of the state.
The Galveston storm of 1900 reduced a cosmopolitan and economically vibrant city to a wreckage-strewn wasteland where survivors struggled without shelter, power, potable water, or even the means to summon...
The past has long fingers into the present, but they are not just the fingers of fact. How we remember the past is at least as important as the objective...