... Party with the women’s rights and free love movements. And they argued that abolitionism was the source of Republican gender radicalism. These tactics defined Republicans as the party of women’s rights, free love, abolitionism, and disunion, and the Democrats as the party of patriarchy, conservatism...

... in September 1862, where the Cherokee troops fascinated the citizens. Thomas’ strategy was thwarted when Brigadier General Alfred E. Jackson sent part of the Legion on a campaign into northeast Tennessee and Virginia, led by Lt. Col. James R. Love and Maj. William W. Stringfield. These soldiers participated...

... H ———relationships with Chambers James Johnson L F ———views on Bragg Braxton Lee Robert E ———birth Knoxville Samuel Jones General William W. Averell Pregnancy Honor Duty Defeatism Pregnancy Love On December 7, 1863, President Davis sent a message to the Confederate States...

...In her ghazals, Mah Laqa Bai declares loving submission to ʿAli and the Shiʿi imams. She was not merely a courtesan but also a Shiʿi woman. Her ghazals have an element of spirituality and mysticism, despite her secular profession. Even as a courtesan she could be spiritual. This chapter explores...

...This chapter covers the 1960s and early 1970s, a time when Francis was imagined as a hippie, a rebellious youth in search of authenticity. It shows how the early hippie movement in San Francisco, and the 1967 Summer of Love, constructed new visions of Francis from available cultural materials...

...This chapter explores some of Ibn Άrabīs other teachings on men and women, including their relationships of love, desire, sexuality, and marriage. In particular, it focuses on readings of the Abrahamic creation narratives, involving Adam and Eve, which form the center of varying understandings...

...This introduction uses the popular James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson song “Congo Love Song” to consider the way that African American popular culture—in this instance a wildly successful vaudeville song—were integral parts of a larger culture of African American transnational engagement...

... of competing interests and groups. It uses Christmas to explore the history of the modern self across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The chapter uses Christmas to show how the changing nature of the self is rooted in and transformed in turn by grander ideas about morality, the sacred family love...

..., and Re-Coil. I discuss the cover songs “Mississippi,” Gram Parsons/Emmylou Harris’ version of “If I Could Only Win Your Love,” and Charley Pride’s “Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone.” Epilogue concludes with a reflection on artists from the Navajo Nation visiting the author’s class at the University of New...

...,” “Can You See Me,” “Love or Confusion,” “Red House,” and other original Hendrix compositions. The band’s first single, “Hey Joe” backed with “Stone Free,” is released to rave reviews. Then, while waiting backstage to perform at a Boxing Day matinee, Jimi composes “Purple Haze,” drawing inspiration from...

...In Love the Soldier, a short story by Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, Keisha, a lesbian cop-turned-soldier spends her last weekend before deployment sorting out her complicated feelings regarding her brother Marcus's death, her preacher father's opposition to the war she's going to fight in, and her old...

...In Girlfriend, a short story by Penelope Robbins, a woman's memories of her first love, Carlee, inspires her to start living her own life more freely. Girlfriend Penelope Robbins love memory hairbrush For the most part I have tried not to think about Carlee. Of course, in the back of my closet...

...Lewis analyzes the book that Jefferson’s great-granddaughter published about him in 1871. Randolph’s book was designed to defend the character of Jefferson, in part, by emphasizing the love and respect that existed between members of the Jefferson-Randolph family. Randolph saw her work...

... they live. Late in life he marries Sarah Love, the much younger daughter of his best friend. The Cherokee declare war on the United States-which marched so many of their tribe away form their ancestral lands along the Trail of Tears. Thomas raises a regiment of Cherokees and mountaineers and spends himself...

...This chapter uses film theory and visual culture studies to parse Malcolm D Lee's film The Best Man (1999) and Gina Prince-Bythewood's film Love and Basketball (2000) as well as the corresponding soundtracks, screenplays, and publicity. It illuminates how the films...

... in The Philadelphia Tribune February 21 announced that “Nina Simone Leaves Mate Who Earns $100,000 as Her Personal Manager.” Andy had moved to a midtown Manhattan apartment, and though he did not comment on his income, he insisted there was no “love triangle” involved. “It's simply a matter of personal...

.... And while diarists wrote about the men they knew, they also wrote with curiosity and attraction for new men, the men war brought. So diarists wrote about love, and whether love would stand up to war—a compelling question for women and men at war, though not one often explored by historians. Women’s diaries...

...Even on his sixties and seventies, García Márquez still produced well-written narratives that explored male–female attraction and love. These novels pushed the customary boundaries of romantic experience and ultimately surprise readers along the way. These novels, Of Love and Other Demons...

... and entertainers, although some worked in air shows before joining the WASP. These women epitomized a 1920s modern or new woman for their pursuit of adventure, liberation, and technology. Two of these early female barnstormers, Nancy Love and Jaqueline Cochran, started the programs that became the WASP. A New Deal...

...Between 1854 and 1864, more than a hundred free African Americans in Virginia proposed to enslave themselves and, in some cases, their children. This book explains this phenomenon as a response to state legislation that forced free African Americans to make a terrible choice: leave enslaved loved...