... Emotional Regime Gender Nineteenth century America Widowhood With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle...

... Jewish Socialist International Committee to Protect Political Prisoners ICPP Khanin Nokhum Levitas Sol Shub David Vladivostok Ward Henry Foster William Z Jewish Labor Committee Nazism curse of Ham curse of Canaan nineteenth-century America religious fantasy interracial sex racial purity...

...This article uses Margaret Sidney's domestic novel Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1881) to reveal assumptions about social class, birth, and taste in late-nineteenth-century America. Starting with the idea of this text as a “classic,” it moves to the place of class within...

...In nineteenth-century America, one of the crucial battlegrounds of the fate of labor aboard merchant vessels was insurrection. Seafarers exploited the availability and the unavailability of outside authority in several ways to defend their position as laborers, despite the reduced status of workers...

...How did Americans come to think of themselves as respectable members of the middle class? Was it just by earning a decent living? Or did it require something more? And if it did, what can we learn that may still apply? The quest for middle-class respectability in nineteenth-century America...

... refer to as the Burned-over District. The book highlights how Christian revivalism transformed the region into a critical hub of social reform in nineteenth-century America. An invaluable compendium of primary sources, this anthology revises standard interpretations of the Burned-over District and shows...

...-term trends and their causes. To that end, this book draws on new data—an extensive longitudinal survey of Union Army veterans born between 1820 and 1850—to examine the factors that affected health and labor force participation in nineteenth-century America. Contributors consider the impacts...

...Emergent Worlds reframes the modernity of nineteenth-century America by displacing three central critical narratives about the era: the westward spread of imperialism, the redemptionist story of black freedom, and the notion that the United States constituted a new world. It begins...

...A through-line in Kelso’s multifaceted life is his commitment to manhood. “Manhood” in nineteenth-century America was about more than the gendered distinctions between the masculine and the feminine. It was what distinguished the human from the beast, and the adult from the child. It had both...

... that applied specifically to women of nineteenth‐century America. Thus while their unorthodox careers took them far beyond the bounds of home, they found it necessary as writers to make much use of the language of domesticity in their efforts to understand themselves, to justify their lives to an audience...

...At Home in Nineteenth-Century America uses primary documentsto revisit the variety of places Americans called home—middle-class suburban houses, slave cabins, working-class tenements, frontier dugouts, urban settlement houses—and explore the shifting interpretations and experiences...

...This book questions how religion was lived in nineteenth-century America through a study that weaves together a range of sources, both archaeological and textual. The focus is evangelical Protestantism, which witnessed a renewed popularity in the Second Great Awakening that brought hundreds...

...This introductory chapter discusses the emergence of the postal culture in nineteenth-century America. In 1820 most Americans did not engage directly in any form of interactive, long-distance communications network, while by 1870 most of them did. The crux of the change may be dated around...

... Sarony Napoleon Warren Samuel Wilde Oscar Brandeis Louis photography to be racial surveillance “The Right to Privacy” Warren and Brandeis silhouette drawing photography intellectual property legal thought performance racial capitalism nineteenth-century America aesthetics race Studies...

... to decipher the truth behind the stories and myths surrounding McCarty and what ultimately led her to that Utica streetcar with a pistol in her dress pocket. The book revisits a rich history of women's experience in mid-nineteenth century America, revealing McCarty as a multifaceted, fascinating...

... centuries. It also presents proofs on how the economic development in the nineteenth-century America became consistent with the disease and population model of economic growth, and similar to that of the past as it paved the way for the spread and perpetuation of pathogens throughout most of the century...

...This book explores the cultural meanings of productivity and unproductivity in nineteenth-century America, with particular emphasis on how the familiar categories of industry and idleness gives rise to an unusual, powerful, and often paradoxical force that it calls the productivity...