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Author | : Amy Murrell Taylor |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2009-11-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807899070 |
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The Civil War has long been described as a war pitting "brother against brother." The divided family is an enduring metaphor for the divided nation, but it also accurately reflects the reality of America's bloodiest war. Connecting the metaphor to the real experiences of families whose households were split by conflicting opinions about the war, Amy Murrell Taylor provides a social and cultural history of the divided family in Civil War America. In hundreds of border state households, brothers--and sisters--really did fight one another, while fathers and sons argued over secession and husbands and wives struggled with opposing national loyalties. Even enslaved men and women found themselves divided over how to respond to the war. Taylor studies letters, diaries, newspapers, and government documents to understand how families coped with the unprecedented intrusion of war into their private lives. Family divisions inflamed the national crisis while simultaneously embodying it on a small scale--something noticed by writers of popular fiction and political rhetoric, who drew explicit connections between the ordeal of divided families and that of the nation. Weaving together an analysis of this popular imagery with the experiences of real families, Taylor demonstrates how the effects of the Civil War went far beyond the battlefield to penetrate many facets of everyday life.
Author | : Elaine Tyler May |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2008-09-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786723467 |
Download Homeward Bound Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the 1950s, the term "containment" referred to the foreign policy-driven containment of Communism and atomic proliferation. Yet in Homeward Bound May demonstrates that there was also a domestic version of containment where the "sphere of influence" was the home. Within its walls, potentially dangerous social forces might be tamed, securing the fulfilling life to which postwar women and men aspired. Homeward Bound tells the story of domestic containment - how it emerged, how it affected the lives of those who tried to conform to it, and how it unraveled in the wake of the Vietnam era's assault on Cold War culture, when unwed mothers, feminists, and "secular humanists" became the new "enemy." This revised and updated edition includes the latest information on race, the culture wars, and current cultural and political controversies of the post-Cold War era.
Author | : Alison Buckholtz |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781585426959 |
Download Standing by Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A Navy wife provides an unexpectedly honest and moving account of her family's experiences during her husband's deployment to the Middle East.
Author | : David Kushner |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2022-03-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 163973077X |
Download Levittown Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The explosive true story of the first African-American family to move into one of America's most iconic suburbs, Levittown, Pennsylvania. In the decade after World War II, one entrepreneurial family helped thousands of people buy into the American dream of owning a home, not just any home, but a good one, with all the modern conveniences. The Levitts--two brothers, William and Alfred, and their father, Abe--pooled their talents in land use, architecture, and sales to create story book town with affordable little houses. They laid out the welcome mat, but not to everyone. Levittown had a whites-only policy. This is the story that unfolded in Levittown, PA, one unseasonably hot summer in 1957 on a quiet street called Deepgreen Lane. There, a white Jewish Communist family named Wechsler secretly arranged for a black family, the Myers, to buy the little pink house next door. What followed was an explosive summer of violence that would transform their lives, and the nation. It would lead to the downfall of a titan, and the integration of the most famous suburb in the world. It's a story of hope and fear, invention and rebellion, and the power that comes when ordinary people take an extraordinary stand.
Author | : Catherine Moy |
Publisher | : Cumberland House Publishing |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781581825404 |
Download American Mourning Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Describes the differing emotional and political reactions of two families dealing with the deaths of their sons, best friends and soldiers who had been killed within five days of each other in the Iraq War.
Author | : Kori A. Graves |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2020-01-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1479815861 |
Download A War Born Family Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The origins of a transnational adoption strategy that secured the future for Korean-black children The Korean War left hundreds of thousands of children in dire circumstances, but the first large-scale transnational adoption efforts involved the children of American soldiers and Korean women. Korean laws and traditions stipulated that citizenship and status passed from father to child, which made the children of US soldiers legally stateless. Korean-black children faced additional hardships because of Korean beliefs about racial purity, and the segregation that structured African American soldiers’ lives in the military and throughout US society. The African American families who tried to adopt Korean-black children also faced and challenged discrimination in the child welfare agencies that arranged adoptions. Drawing on extensive research in black newspapers and magazines, interviews with African American soldiers, and case notes about African American adoptive families, A War Born Family demonstrates how the Cold War and the struggle for civil rights led child welfare agencies to reevaluate African American men and women as suitable adoptive parents, advancing the cause of Korean transnational adoption.
Author | : Ira Berlin |
Publisher | : The New Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1565844408 |
Download Families and Freedom Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Through the dramatic and moving letters and testimony of freed slaves, "Families and Freedom" tells the story of the remaking of the black family during the tumultuous years of the Civil War era. By the editors of the award-winning "Free at Last". 36 illustrations.
Author | : J. Anthony Lukas |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 2012-09-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 030782375X |
Download Common Ground Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the bestselling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of three families. As Studs Terkel remarked, it's "gripping, indelible...a truth about all large American cities." "An epic of American city life...a story of such hypnotic specificity that we re-experience all the shades of hope and anger, pity and fear that living anywhere in late 20th-century America has inevitably provoked." —Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
Author | : David Popenoe |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2011-12-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1412809878 |
Download War Over the Family Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
One of the most surprising and controversial social debates of the past two decades has been about the meaning and importance of marriage and the family in contemporary American life. Referred to by some as a culture "war over the family," the debate has pitted those concerned about the weakening of the traditional married-parent nuclear family, especially in its impact on children, against those arguing that nothing has gone wrong with families--that they are merely "diversifying." David Popenoe has been one of the most influential figures in laying out for a wide audience the importance of "family decline," and what it means for our children, our society, and our future.
Author | : Stephanie Coontz |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Ethnicity |
ISBN | : 9780415915731 |
Download American Families Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection by leading scholars discusses race, gender and class stressing their effects on American families.