Beth L. Bailey est une historienne américaine spécialisée dans l'histoire du Sud des États-Unis et de la culture américaine du XXe siècle. Son travail examine l'évolution des normes sociales et des identités culturelles au cours de périodes de changements sociaux et politiques significatifs. Bailey écrit dans un style accessible qui plaît aussi bien aux universitaires qu'au grand public, offrant de nouvelles perspectives sur des moments clés de l'histoire américaine.
This monumental history asks the simple question: How did we end up in a war in Vietnam? Fredrik Logevall traces the forty-year path that led us from World War I to the first American casualties in 1959This monumental history asks the simple question: How did we end up in a war in Vietnam?
David Blight takes his readers back to the Civil War's centennial celebration to determine how Americans made sense of the suffering, loss, and liberation a century earlier. He shows how four of America's most incisive writers-Robert Penn Warren, Bruce Catton, Edmund Wilson, and James Baldwin-explored the gulf between remembrance and reality.
The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African American of the 19th century--Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. era.
In 1865, in the aftermath of civil war, the North and South of America began a slow process of reconciliation. This book examines the construction of a culture of reunion during the ensuing decades and analyzes how this unity was created through increasing racial segregation.
A short introduction to the origins of the Vietnam War. The book sets the context to the conflict from the end of the Indochina War in 1954 to the eruption of full scale war in 1965. It places events in their full international background. číst celé
Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii
As the forward base and staging area for all US military operations in the Pacific during World War II, Hawaii was the "first strange place" for close to a million soldiers, sailors, and marines on their way to the horrors of war. But Hawaii was also the first strange place on another kind of journey, toward the new American society that would begin to emerge in the postwar era. Unlike the rigid and static social order of prewar America, this was to be a highly mobile and volatile society of mixed racial and cultural influences, one above all in which women and minorities would increasingly demand and receive equal status. Drawing on documents, diaries, memoirs, and interviews, Beth Bailey and David Farber show how these unprecedented changes were tested and explored in the highly charged environment of wartime Hawaii.
A comprehensive look at how slavery and resistance to it have shaped Yale University