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At 7:30 a.m. on June 16, 1944, George Junius Stinney Jr. was
escorted by four guards to the death chamber. Wearing socks but no
shoes, the 14-year-old Black boy walked with his Bible tucked under
his arm. The guards strapped his slight, five-foot-one-inch frame
into the electric chair. His small size made it difficult to affix
the electrode to his right leg and the face mask, which was clearly
too large, fell to the floor when the executioner flipped the
switch. That day, George Stinney became, and today remains, the
youngest person executed in the United States during the twentieth
century.How was it possible, even in Jim Crow South Carolina, for a
child to be convicted, sentenced to death, and executed based on
circumstantial evidence in a trial that lasted only a few hours?
Through extensive archival research and interviews with Stinney's
contemporaries-men and women alive today who still carry
distinctive memories of the events that rocked the small town of
Alcolu and the entire state-Eli Faber pieces together the chain of
events that led to this tragic injustice. The first book to fully
explore the events leading to Stinney's death, The Child in the
Electric Chair offers a compelling narrative with a meticulously
researched analysis of the world in which Stinney lived-the era of
lynching, segregation, and racist assumptions about Black
Americans. Faber explains how a systemically racist system, paired
with the personal ambitions of powerful individuals, turned a blind
eye to human decency and one of the basic tenets of the American
legal system that individuals are innocent until proven guilty. As
society continues to grapple with the legacies of racial injustice,
the story of George Stinney remains one that can teach us lessons
about our collective past and present. By ably placing the Stinney
case into a larger context, Faber reveals how this case is not just
a travesty of justice locked in the era of the Jim Crow South but
rather one that continues to resonate in our own time. A foreword
is provided by Carol Berkin, Presidential Professor of History
Emerita at Baruch College at the City University of New York and
author of several books including Civil War Wives: The Lives and
Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent
Grant.
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Making America - A History of the United States, Brief, International Edition (Paperback, 5th edition)
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MAKING AMERICA: A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, BRIEF,
International Edition, presents history as a dynamic process shaped
by human expectations, difficult choices, and often the surprising
consequences. With this focus on history as a process, MAKING
AMERICA encourages students to think historically and to develop
into citizens who value the past. The clear chronology,
straightforward narrative, and strong thematic structure emphasize
communication over intimidation, and appeal to students of varied
learning levels. The Brief Fifth Edition retains a hallmark feature
of the MAKING AMERICA program: pedagogical tools that allow
students to master complex material and enable them to develop
analytical skills. Every chapter has chapter outlines,
chronologies, focus questions, and in-text glossaries to provide
guidance throughout the text. A new feature called Investigating
America gets to the heart of learning history: reading and
analyzing primary sources. The text's new open, inviting design
allows students to access and use pedagogy to improve learning.
Tells the fascinating stories of the myriad women who shaped the
early modern North American world from the colonial era through the
first years of the Republic Women in Early America, edited by
Thomas A. Foster, goes beyond the familiar stories of Pocahontas or
Abigail Adams, recovering the lives and experiences of lesser-known
women-both ordinary and elite, enslaved and free, Indigenous and
immigrant-who lived and worked in not only British mainland
America, but also New Spain, New France, New Netherlands, and the
West Indies. In these essays we learn about the conditions that
women faced during the Salem witchcraft panic and the Spanish
Inquisition in New Mexico; as indentured servants in early Virginia
and Maryland; caught up between warring British and Native
Americans; as traders in New Netherlands and Detroit; as slave
owners in Jamaica; as Loyalist women during the American
Revolution; enslaved in the President's house; and as students and
educators inspired by the air of equality in the young nation.
Foster showcases the latest research of junior and senior
historians, drawing from recent scholarship informed by women's and
gender history-feminist theory, gender theory, new cultural
history, social history, and literary criticism. Collectively,
these essays address the need for scholarship on women's lives and
experiences. Women in Early America heeds the call of feminist
scholars to not merely reproduce male-centered narratives, "add
women, and stir," but to rethink master narratives themselves so
that we may better understand how women and men created and
developed our historical past.
Shaped with a clear political chronology, MAKING AMERICA reflects
the variety of individual experiences and cultures that comprise
American society. The authors' goal is to spark readers' curiosity
and invite them to explore and "do" history rather than simply read
about it. The book conveys the surprising twists and turns as well
as the individual and collective tales of success and failure that
are the real story of the American past. The strongly chronological
narrative, together with visuals and an integrated program of
learning aids, makes the historical content vivid and
comprehensible.
The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity,
bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American, and Carol
Berkin shows us that women played a vital role throughout the
struggle.
Berkin takes us into the ordinary moments of extraordinary lives.
We see women boycotting British goods in the years before
independence, writing propaganda that radicalized their neighbors,
raising funds for the army, and helping finance the fledgling
government. We see how they managed farms, plantations, and
businesses while their men went into battle, and how they served as
nurses and cooks in the army camps, risked their lives seeking
personal freedom from slavery, and served as spies, saboteurs, and
warriors.
She introduces us to sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington, who sped
through the night to rouse the militiamen needed to defend Danbury,
Connecticut; to Phillis Wheatley, literary prodigy and Boston
slave, who voiced the hopes of African Americans in poems; to
Margaret Corbin, crippled for life when she took her husband's
place beside a cannon at Fort Monmouth; to the women who gathered
firewood, cooked, cleaned for the troops, nursed the wounded, and
risked their lives carrying intelligence and participating in
reconnaissance missions. Here, too, are Abigail Adams, Deborah
Franklin, Lucy Knox, and Martha Washington, who lived with the
daily knowledge that their husbands would be hanged as traitors if
the revolution did not succeed. A recapturing of the experiences of
ordinary women who lived in extraordinary times, and a fascinating
addition to our understanding of the birth of our nation.
"From the Hardcover edition.
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Women in Early America (Hardcover)
Thomas A. Foster; Foreword by Carol Berkin; Afterword by Jennifer L. Morgan
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Tells the fascinating stories of the myriad women who shaped the
early modern North American world from the colonial era through the
first years of the Republic Women in Early America, edited by
Thomas A. Foster, goes beyond the familiar stories of Pocahontas or
Abigail Adams, recovering the lives and experiences of lesser-known
women—both ordinary and elite, enslaved and free, Indigenous and
immigrant—who lived and worked in not only British mainland
America, but also New Spain, New France, New Netherlands, and the
West Indies. In these essays we learn about the conditions that
women faced during the Salem witchcraft panic and the Spanish
Inquisition in New Mexico; as indentured servants in early Virginia
and Maryland; caught up between warring British and Native
Americans; as traders in New Netherlands and Detroit; as slave
owners in Jamaica; as Loyalist women during the American
Revolution; enslaved in the President’s house; and as students
and educators inspired by the air of equality in the young nation.
Foster showcases the latest research of junior and senior
historians, drawing from recent scholarship informed by women’s
and gender history—feminist theory, gender theory, new cultural
history, social history, and literary criticism. Collectively,
these essays address the need for scholarship on women’s lives
and experiences. Women in Early America heeds the call of feminist
scholars to not merely reproduce male-centered narratives, “add
women, and stir,” but to rethink master narratives themselves so
that we may better understand how women and men created and
developed our historical past.
Developed to meet the demand for a low-cost, high-quality history
book, this economically priced version of MAKING AMERICA, Seventh
Edition offers readers the complete narrative while limiting the
number of features, photos, and maps. All volumes feature a
two-color paperback format. Shaped with a clear political
chronology, MAKING AMERICA reflects the variety of individual
experiences and cultures that comprise American society. The book
provides a clear narrative and an integrated program of learning
aids that make the historical content vivid and comprehensible to
readers at all levels of preparedness.
In the Words of Women brings together the writings-letters,
diaries, journals, pamphlets, poems, plays, depositions, and
newspaper articles of women who lived between 1765 and 1799. The
writings are organized chronologically around events, battles, and
developments from before the Revolution, through its prosecution
and aftermath. They reflect the thoughts, observations and
experiences of women during those tumultuous times, women less well
known to the reading public, including patriots and loyalists; the
highborn and lowly; Native Americans and blacks, both free and
enslaved; the involved and observers; the young and old; and those
in between. Brief narrative passages provide historical context,
and information about the women as they are introduced enable
readers to appreciate their relevance and significance. For more
information on this topic, please visit the author's website at
www.inthewordsofwomen.com.
Over the last four decades, women's history has developed from a
new and marginal approach to history to an established and
flourishing area of the discipline taught in all history
departments.
Clio in the Classroom makes accessible the content, key themes and
concepts, and pedagogical techniques of U.S. women's history for
all secondary school and college teachers. Editors Carol Berkin,
Margaret S. Crocco, and Barbara Winslow have brought together a
diverse group of educators to provide information and tools for
those who are constructing a new syllabus or revitalizing an
existing one. The essays in this volume provide concise, up-to-date
overviews of American women's history from colonial times to the
present that include its ethnic, racial, and regional changes. They
look at conceptual frameworks key to understanding women's history
and American history, such as sexuality, citizenship, consumerism,
and religion. And they offer concrete approaches for the classroom,
including the use of oral history, visual resources, material
culture, and group learning. The volume also features a guide to
print and digital resources for further information.
This is an invaluable guide for women and men preparing to
incorporate the study of women into their classes, as well as for
those seeking fresh perspectives for their teaching.
A rich narrative portrait of post-revolutionary America and the
men who shaped its political future
Though the American Revolution is widely recognized as our
nation's founding story, the years immediately following the
war--when our government was a disaster and the country was in a
terrible crisis--were in fact the most crucial in establishing the
country's independence. The group of men who traveled to
Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 had no idea what kind of history
their meeting would make. But all their ideas, arguments, and
compromises--from the creation of the Constitution itself, article
by article, to the insistence that it remain a living, evolving
document--laid the foundation for a government that has surpassed
the founders' greatest hopes. Revisiting all the original
historical documents of the period and drawing from her deep
knowledge of eighteenth-century politics, Carol Berkin opens up the
hearts and minds of America's founders, revealing the issues they
faced, the times they lived in, and their humble expectations of
success.
Shaped with a clear political chronology, MAKING AMERICA reflects
the variety of individual experiences and cultures that comprise
American society. The authors' goal is to spark readers' curiosity
and invite them to explore and "do" history rather than simply read
about it. The book conveys the surprising twists and turns as well
as the individual and collective tales of success and failure that
are the real story of the American past. The strongly chronological
narrative, together with visuals and an integrated program of
learning aids, makes the historical content vivid and
comprehensible.
The editors draw on diaries, letters, essays, court documents,
sermons, wills, plantation records, newspapers, fiction, and advice
manuals to reconstruct women's lives and roles during the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In addition to sources that
convey women's experiences in their own words, the work includes
prescriptive and proscriptive materials, most written by men, to
further illuminate women's behavior and attitudes. The book is
divided into six thematic chapters: sex and reproduction, marriage
and family, women's work, religion, politics and the law, and
changing gender ideologies. Introductory essays by the editors
place each section within historical, cultural, and social context,
and each source is annotated with information about the document's
author and insightful interpretation of its typicality or its
special circumstances.
This enriching collection fills a major gap in the study of early
American women, and it is sure to stimulate further discussions
about both the common and diverse aspects of their lives.
Shaped with a clear political chronology, MAKING AMERICA reflects
the variety of individual experiences and cultures that comprise
American society. The authors' goal is to spark readers' curiosity
and invite them to explore and "do" history rather than simply read
about it. The book conveys the surprising twists and turns as well
as the individual and collective tales of success and failure that
are the real story of the American past. The strongly chronological
narrative, together with visuals and an integrated program of
learning aids, makes the historical content vivid and
comprehensible.
Developed to meet the demand for a low-cost, high-quality history
book, this economically priced version of MAKING AMERICA, Seventh
Edition offers readers the complete narrative while limiting the
number of features, photos, and maps. All volumes feature a
two-color paperback format. Shaped with a clear political
chronology, MAKING AMERICA reflects the variety of individual
experiences and cultures that comprise American society. The book
provides a clear narrative and an integrated program of learning
aids that make the historical content vivid and comprehensible to
readers at all levels of preparedness.
Developed to meet the demand for a low-cost, high-quality history
book, this economically priced version of MAKING AMERICA, Seventh
Edition offers readers the complete narrative while limiting the
number of features, photos, and maps. All volumes feature a
two-color paperback format. Shaped with a clear political
chronology, MAKING AMERICA reflects the variety of individual
experiences and cultures that comprise American society. The book
provides a clear narrative and an integrated program of learning
aids that make the historical content vivid and comprehensible to
readers at all levels of preparedness.
Shaped with a clear political chronology, MAKING AMERICA reflects
the variety of individual experiences and cultures that comprise
American society. The authors' goal is to spark readers' curiosity
and invite them to explore and “do” history rather than simply
read about it. The book conveys the surprising twists and turns as
well as the individual and collective tales of success and failure
that are the real story of the American past. The strongly
chronological narrative, together with visuals and an integrated
program of learning aids, makes the historical content vivid and
comprehensible.
Shaped with a clear political chronology, Making America reflects
the variety of individual experiences and kaleidoscope of cultures
that is American society. Careful to maintain its emphasis on the
importance of social movements, immigrant society, and regional and
political differences in American history, the Fourth Edition of
Making America brings greater attention to global influences and
America's role in the world.Making America serves the needs of
instructors whose classrooms reflect the diversity of today's
college students. The strongly chronological narrative--together
with an integrated program of learning and teaching aids--makes the
historical content vivid and comprehensible to students at all
levels of preparedness. In order to aid reading comprehension, the
text features an on-page glossary and chapter summaries.
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