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The Southern Frontiers, 1607-1860
Although many specialized studies have dealt with the colonial and antebellum American South, very little attention has been paid to the Southern agricultural frontiers before …
Fellow Workers and Friends
Alcohol, Reform and Society
Utopianism and Radicalism in a Reforming America
Utopianism and radicalism achieve greater prominence when economic and social crises render the dominant moral and political universe open to question. The essays in this book …
Frontier Profit and Loss
By 1760, with the alleviation of the French threat to the western frontier, colonial fur traders headed west to reap the bounty of trade with the local tribes. However, when …
A Right to the Land
The Senate Munitions Inquiry of the 1930s
The Munitions Inquiry, often called the Nye Committee after its chairperson, Senator Gerald Nye, critically examined the pre-World War II military-industrial complex of government …
A Utopian Experiment in Kentucky
A major social and educational experiment in race relations was conducted in Berea, Kentucky, from 1866 to 1904. During those years Berea contained a community, school, and church …