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In their attempts to have a child, a husband and wife must contend
with personal desires, crossed boundaries, and broken trust as they
reimagine what it truly means to be a family. Nikki and Kyle
Sebastian have a loving and healthy marriage. It’s only missing
one thing they want—children. When the couple is diagnosed with
“unexplained infertility” and endures several failed rounds of
IVF, Kyle, for both their sakes, is unwilling to bury them deeper
in emotional and financial debt. Desperate to have a baby, Nikki
betrays Kyle’s trust in an attempt to try IVF one more time. The
choice fractures their once-stable union. Now burdened with
suspicion, resentment, and further grief, their little family is
falling apart. Picking up the pieces of their broken home means
reassessing their dreams for the future—dreams that Nikki’s not
ready to give up. If she can’t find a way to forge a new path
forward with Kyle, she may find herself alone at the end of the
family tree she longs to help grow.
Frederick Douglass was born a slave in Talbot County, Maryland, in
February, 1818. From these humble beginnings, Douglass went on to
become a world-famous orator, newspaper editor, and champion of the
rights of women and African Americans. He was the most prominent
African American activist of the 19th century. He remains important
in American history because he moved beyond relief at his own
personal freedom to dedicating his life to the progress of his race
and his country. This volume offers a short biographical
exploration of Douglass' life in the broader context of the 19th
century world, and pulls together some of his most important
writings on slavery, civil rights, and political issues. Bolstered
by the series website, which provides instructors with more images
and documents, as well as targeted links to further research,
Frederick Douglass: Reformer and Statesman gives the student of
American history a fully-rounded glimpse into the world inhabited
by this great figure.
Frederick Douglass was born a slave in Talbot County, Maryland, in
February, 1818. From these humble beginnings, Douglass went on to
become a world-famous orator, newspaper editor, and champion of the
rights of women and African Americans. He was the most prominent
African American activist of the 19th century. He remains important
in American history because he moved beyond relief at his own
personal freedom to dedicating his life to the progress of his race
and his country. This volume offers a short biographical
exploration of Douglass' life in the broader context of the 19th
century world, and pulls together some of his most important
writings on slavery, civil rights, and political issues. Bolstered
by the series website, which provides instructors with more images
and documents, as well as targeted links to further research,
Frederick Douglass: Reformer and Statesman gives the student of
American history a fully-rounded glimpse into the world inhabited
by this great figure.
Frederick Douglass was born enslaved in February 1818, but from
this most humble of beginnings, he rose to become a world-famous
orator, newspaper editor, and champion of the rights of women and
African Americans. He not only survived slavery to live in freedom
but also became an outspoken critic of the institution and an
active participant in the U.S. political system. Douglass advised
presidents of the United States and formally represented his
country in the diplomatic corps. He was the most prominent African
American activist of the nineteenth century, and he left a treasure
trove of documentary evidence detailing his life in slavery and
achievements in freedom. This volume gathers and interprets
valuable selections from a variety of Douglass's writings,
including speeches, editorials, correspondence, and
autobiographies.
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The American Civil War was the first military conflict in history
to be fought with railroads moving troops and the telegraph
connecting civilian leadership to commanders in the field. New
developments arose at a moment’s notice. As a result, the young
nation’s political structure and culture often struggled to keep
up. When war began, Congress was not even in session. By the time
it met, the government had mobilized over 100,000 soldiers, battles
had been fought, casualties had been taken, some civilians had
violently opposed the war effort, and emancipation was under way.
This set the stage for Congress to play catch-up for much of the
conflict. The result was an ongoing race to pass new laws and set
policies. Throughout it all, Congress had to answer to a fractured
and demanding public. In addition, Congress, no longer paralyzed by
large numbers of Southern slave owners, moved forward on
progressive economic and social issues—such as the
transcontinental railroad and the land grant college act—which
could not previously have been passed. In Congress and the
People’s Contest, Paul Finkelman and Donald R. Kennon have
assembled some of the nation’s finest scholars of American
history and law to evaluate the interactions between Congress and
the American people as they navigated a cataclysmic and
unprecedented war. Displaying a variety and range of focus that
will make the book a classroom must, these essays show how these
interactions took place—sometimes successfully, and sometimes
less so. Contributors: L. Diane Barnes, Fergus M. Bordewich, Jenny
Bourne, Jonathan Earle, Lesley J. Gordon, Mischa Honeck, Chandra
Manning, Nikki M. Taylor, and Eric Walther.
The American Civil War was the first military conflict in history
to be fought with railroads moving troops and the telegraph
connecting civilian leadership to commanders in the field. New
developments arose at a moment’s notice. As a result, the young
nation’s political structure and culture often struggled to keep
up. When war began, Congress was not even in session. By the time
it met, the government had mobilized over 100,000 soldiers, battles
had been fought, casualties had been taken, some civilians had
violently opposed the war effort, and emancipation was under way.
This set the stage for Congress to play catch-up for much of the
conflict. The result was an ongoing race to pass new laws and set
policies. Throughout it all, Congress had to answer to a fractured
and demanding public. In addition, Congress, no longer paralyzed by
large numbers of Southern slave owners, moved forward on
progressive economic and social issues—such as the
transcontinental railroad and the land grant college act—which
could not previously have been passed. In Congress and the
People’s Contest, Paul Finkelman and Donald R. Kennon have
assembled some of the nation’s finest scholars of American
history and law to evaluate the interactions between Congress and
the American people as they navigated a cataclysmic and
unprecedented war. Displaying a variety and range of focus that
will make the book a classroom must, these essays show how these
interactions took place—sometimes successfully, and sometimes
less so. Contributors: L. Diane Barnes, Fergus M. Bordewich, Jenny
Bourne, Jonathan Earle, Lesley J. Gordon, Mischa Honeck, Chandra
Manning, Nikki M. Taylor, and Eric Walther.
Before the Civil War, America's slave states were enmeshed in the
modernizing trends of their time but that history has been obscured
by a deeply ingrained view of the Old South as an insular society
with few outward connections. The Old South's Modern Worlds looks
beyond this myth of an isolated and backward-looking South to
identify some of the many ways that the modern world shaped
antebellum southern society. Removing the screen of southern
traditionalism turns up new stories about slaves as religious
missionaries, Native Americans as hard-driving capitalists, cotton
cultivators as genetic scientists, proslavery politicians as
nationalists, and planters as experimenters in sexuality. The
essays gathered in this volume not only tell these jarringly modern
tales of the Old South, they also explore the compatibility of
slavery-the defining feature of antebellum southern life-and
cultural and material markers of modernity such as moral reform,
cities, and industry. The Old South emerges from this volume in a
new relationship to national and global histories. Considered as
proponents of American manifest destiny, antebellum southern
politicians look more like nationalists and less like separatists.
Southerners' enthusiasm for humanitarian missions and their debates
with moral reformers across the Atlantic bring out the global
currents that cut against the localism of southern life. The roles
that cities played in marketing, policing, and leasing slaves
counteracted the erosion of slave discipline in urban settings. The
turmoil that changes in Asian and European agriculture wrought
among southern staple producers show the interconnections between
seemingly isolated southern farms and markets in distant lands.
Diverse and riddled with contradictory impulses, antebellum
southerners encounters with modernity reveal the often
discomforting legacies left by the Old South on the future of
America and the world.
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