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When originally published, A New History of Kentucky provided a
comprehensive study of the Commonwealth, bringing it to life by
revealing the many faces, deep traditions, and historical
milestones of the state. With new discoveries and findings, the
narrative continues to evolve, and so does the telling of
Kentucky's rich history. In this second edition, authors James C.
Klotter and Craig Thompson Friend provide significantly revised
content with updated material on gender politics, African American
history, and cultural history. This wide-ranging volume includes a
full overview of the state and its economic, educational,
environmental, racial, and religious histories. At its essence,
Kentucky's story is about its people -- not just the notable and
prominent figures but also lesser-known and sometimes overlooked
personalities. The human spirit unfolds through the lives of
individuals such as Shawnee peace chief Nonhelema Hokolesqua and
suffrage leader Madge Breckinridge, early land promoter John
Filson, author Wendell Berry, and Iwo Jima flag--raiser Private
Franklin Sousley. They lived on a landscape defined by its
topography as much as its political boundaries, from Appalachia in
the east to the Jackson Purchase in the west, and from the Walker
Line that forms the Commonwealth's southern boundary to the Ohio
River that shapes its northern boundary. Along the journey are
traces of Kentucky's past -- its literary and musical traditions,
its state-level and national political leadership, and its
basketball and bourbon. Yet this volume also faces forthrightly the
Commonwealth's blemishes -- the displacement of Native Americans,
African American enslavement, the legacy of violence, and failures
to address poverty and poor health. A New History of Kentucky
ranges throughout all parts of the Commonwealth to explore its
special meaning to those who have called it home. It is a broadly
interpretive, all-encompassing narrative that tells Kentucky's
complex, extensive, and ever-changing story.
A sweeping historiographical collection, Reinterpreting Southern
Histories updates and expands upon the iconic volumes Writing
Southern History and Interpreting Southern History, both published
by Louisiana State University Press. With nineteen original essays
co-written by some of the most prominent historians working in
southern history today, this volume boldly explores the current
state, methods, innovations, and prospects of the richly diverse
and transforming field of southern history. Two scholars at
different stages of their careers coauthor each essay, working
collaboratively to provide broad knowledge of the most recent
historiography and an expansive vision for historiographical
contexts. This innovative approach provides an intellectual
connection with the earlier volumes while reflecting cutting-edge
scholarship in the field. Underlying each essay is the cultural
turn of the 1980s and 1990s, which introduced the use of language
and cultural symbols and the influence of gender studies,
postcolonial studies, and memory studies. The essays also rely less
on framing the South as a distinct region and more on
contextualizing it within national and global conversations.
Reinterpreting Southern Histories, like the two classic volumes
that preceded it, serves as both a comprehensive analysis of the
current historiography of the South and a reinterpretation of that
history, reaching new conclusions for enduring questions and
establishing the parameters of future debates.
Touted as an American Eden, Kentucky provides one of the most
dramatic social histories of early America. In this collection, ten
contributors trace the evolution of Kentucky from First West to
Early Republic. The authors tell the stories of the state's
remarkable settlers and inhabitants: Indians, African Americans,
working-class men and women, wealthy planters and struggling
farmers. Eager settlers built defensive forts across the
countryside, while women and slaves used revivalism to create new
opportunities for themselves in a white, patriarchal society. The
world that this diverse group of people made was both a society
uniquely Kentuckian and a microcosm of the unfolding American
pageant. In the mid-1700s, the trans-Appalachian region gained a
reputation for its openness, innocence, and rusticity- fertile
ground for an agrarian republic founded on the virtue of the yeoman
ideal. By the nineteenth century, writers of history would
characterize the state as a breeding ground for an American culture
of distinctly Anglo-Saxon origin. Modern historians, however, now
emphasize exploring the entire human experience, rather than simply
the political history, of the region. An unusual blend of social,
economic, political, cultural, and religious history, this volume
goes a long way toward answering the question posed by a Virginia
clergyman in 1775: ""What a buzzel is this amongst people about
Kentuck?""
This book covers topics from Cherokee chiefs to womanless weddings.
The follow-up to the critically acclaimed collection ""Southern
Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South"" (Georgia,
2004), ""Southern Masculinity"" explores the contours of southern
male identity from Reconstruction to the present. Twelve case
studies document the changing definitions of southern masculine
identity as understood in conjunction with identities based on
race, gender, age, sexuality, and geography.After the Civil War,
southern men crafted notions of manhood in opposition to northern
ideals of masculinity and as counterpoint to southern womanhood. At
the same time, manliness in the South - as understood by
individuals and within communities - retained and transformed
antebellum conceptions of honor and mastery. This collection
examines masculinity with respect to Reconstruction, the New South,
racism, southern womanhood, the Sunbelt, gay rights, and the rise
of the Christian Right. Familiar figures such as Arthur Ashe are
investigated from fresh angles, while other essays plumb new areas
such as the womanless wedding and Cherokee masculinity.
This book covers topics from Cherokee chiefs to womanless weddings.
The follow-up to the critically acclaimed collection ""Southern
Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South"" (Georgia,
2004), ""Southern Masculinity"" explores the contours of southern
male identity from Reconstruction to the present. Twelve case
studies document the changing definitions of southern masculine
identity as understood in conjunction with identities based on
race, gender, age, sexuality, and geography.After the Civil War,
southern men crafted notions of manhood in opposition to northern
ideals of masculinity and as counterpoint to southern womanhood. At
the same time, manliness in the South - as understood by
individuals and within communities - retained and transformed
antebellum conceptions of honor and mastery. This collection
examines masculinity with respect to Reconstruction, the New South,
racism, southern womanhood, the Sunbelt, gay rights, and the rise
of the Christian Right. Familiar figures such as Arthur Ashe are
investigated from fresh angles, while other essays plumb new areas
such as the womanless wedding and Cherokee masculinity.
Spanning the era from the American Revolution to the Civil War,
these nine path breaking original essays explore the unexpected,
competing, or contradictory ways in which southerners made sense of
manhood. Employing a rich variety of methodologies, the
contributors look at southern masculinity within African American,
white, and Native American communities; on the frontier and in
towns; and across boundaries of class and age. Until now, the
emerging subdiscipline of southern masculinity studies has been
informed mainly by conclusions drawn from research on how the
planter class engaged issues of honor, mastery, and patriarchy. But
what about men who didn't own slaves or were themselves enslaved?
These essays illuminate the mechanisms through which such men
negotiated with overarching conceptions of masculine power. Here
the reader encounters Choctaw elites struggling to maintain manly
status in the market economy, black and white artisans forging
rival communities and competing against the gentry for social
recognition, slave men on the southern frontier balancing community
expectations against owner domination, and men in a variety of
military settings acting out community expectations to secure manly
status. As "Southern Manhood brings definition to an emerging
subdiscipline of southern history, it also pushes the broader field
into new directions. All of the essayists take up large themes in
antebellum history, including southern womanhood, the advent of
consumer culture and market relations, and the emergence of
sectional conflict.
A sweeping historiographical collection, Reinterpreting Southern
Histories updates and expands upon the iconic volumes Writing
Southern History and Interpreting Southern History, both published
by Louisiana State University Press. With nineteen original essays
cowritten by some of the most prominent historians working in
southern history today, this volume boldly explores the current
state, methods, innovations, and prospects of the richly diverse
and transforming field of southern history. Two scholars at
different stages of their careers coauthor each essay, working
collaboratively to provide broad knowledge of the most recent
historiography and an expansive vision for historiographical
contexts. This innovative approach provides an intellectual
connection with the earlier volumes while reflecting cutting-edge
scholarship in the field. Underlying each essay is the cultural
turn of the 1980s and 1990s, which introduced the use of language
and cultural symbols and the influence of gender studies,
postcolonial studies, and memory studies. The essays also rely less
on framing the South as a distinct region and more on
contextualizing it within national and global conversations.
Reinterpreting Southern Histories, like the two classic volumes
that preceded it, serves as both a comprehensive analysis of the
current historiography of the South and a reinterpretation of that
history, reaching new conclusions for enduring questions and
establishing the parameters of future debates.
American culture has long celebrated the heroism framed by
Kentucky s frontier wars. Spanning the period from the 1720s when
Ohio River valley Indians returned to their homeland to the
American defeat of the British and their Indian allies in the War
of 1812, Kentucke s Frontiers examines the political, military,
religious, and public memory narratives of early Kentucky. Craig
Thompson Friend explains how frontier terror framed that heroism,
undermining the egalitarian promise of Kentucke and transforming a
trans-Appalachian region into an Old South state. From county
courts and the state legislature to church tribunals and village
stores, patriarchy triumphed over racial and gendered equality,
creating political and economic opportunity for white men by
denying it for all others. Even in remembering their frontier past,
Kentuckians abandoned the egalitarianism of frontier life and
elevated white males to privileged places in Kentucky history and
memory."
This rich collection of original essays illuminates the causes and
consequences of the South's defining experiences with death.
Employing a wide range of perspectives, while concentrating on
discrete episodes in the region's past, the authors explore topics
from the seventeenth century to the present, from the death traps
that emerged during colonization to the bloody backlash against
emancipation and civil rights to recent canny efforts to
commemorate - and capitalize on - the region's deadly past. Some
authors capture their subjects in the most intimate of moments:
killing and dying, grieving and remembering, and believing and
despairing. Others uncover the intentional efforts of Southerners
to publicly commemorate their losses through death rituals and
memorialization campaigns. Together, these poignantly told Southern
stories reveal profound truths about the past of a region marked by
death and unable, perhaps unwilling, to escape the ghosts of its
history.
This rich collection of original essays illuminates the causes and
consequences of the South's defining experiences with death.
Employing a wide range of perspectives, while concentrating on
discrete episodes in the region's past, the authors explore topics
from the seventeenth century to the present, from the death traps
that emerged during colonization to the bloody backlash against
emancipation and civil rights to recent canny efforts to
commemorate - and capitalize on - the region's deadly past. Some
authors capture their subjects in the most intimate of moments:
killing and dying, grieving and remembering, and believing and
despairing. Others uncover the intentional efforts of Southerners
to publicly commemorate their losses through death rituals and
memorialization campaigns. Together, these poignantly told Southern
stories reveal profound truths about the past of a region marked by
death and unable, perhaps unwilling, to escape the ghosts of its
history.
This new book consists of mini-biographies of 15 Americans who
lived during the Antebellum period in American history. Part of The
Human Tradition in America series, the anthology paints vivid
portraits of the lives of lesser-known Americans. Raising new
questions from fresh perspectives, this volume contributes to a
broader understanding of the dynamic forces that shaped the
political, economic, social, and institutional changes that
characterized the antebellum period. Moving beyond the older,
outdated historical narratives of political institutions and the
great men who shaped them, these biographies offer revealing
insights on gender roles and relations, working-class experiences,
race, and local economic change and its effect on society and
politics. The voices of these ordinary individuals-African
Americans, women, ethnic groups, and workers-have until recently
often been silent in history texts. At the same time, these
biographies also reveal the major themes that were part of the
history of the early republic and antebellum era, including the
politics of the Jacksonian era, the democratization of politics and
society, party formation, market revolution, territorial expansion,
the removal of Indians from their territory, religious freedom, and
slavery. Accessible and fascinating, these biographies present a
vivid picture of the richly varied character of American life in
the first half of the nineteenth century. This book is ideal for
courses on the Early National period, U.S. history survey, and
American social and cultural history.
"Will become a useful addition to our understanding of antebellum
Southern families, especially in demonstrating their multiple
forms, definitions, and functions."--Sally McMillen, Davidson
College This collection of essays on family life in the
nineteenth-century American South reevaluates the concept of family
by looking at mourning practices, farming practices, tavern life,
houses divided by politics, and interracial marriages. Individual
essays examine cross-plantation marriages among slaves, white
orphanages, childhood mortality, miscegenation and inheritance,
domestic activities such as sewing, and same-sex relationships.
Editors Craig Thompson Friend and Anya Jabour have collected work
from a range of diverse and innovative historians. The volume
uncovers more about Southern family life and values than we have
previously known and raises new questions about how Southerners
conceptualized family--from demographic structures, power
relations, and gender roles to the relationship of family to
society. In three sections, these ten essays explore the definition
of family in the nineteenth-century South, examine the economics of
family life, both rural and urban, and ultimately answer the
question "what did family mean in the Old South?"
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