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Book Heartsick and Astonished

    Book Details:
  • Author : Allison Dorothy Fredette
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2023-05-15
  • ISBN : 0820364290
  • Pages : 399 pages

Download or read book Heartsick and Astonished written by Allison Dorothy Fredette and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heartsick and Astonished features twenty-seven divorce cases from mid-nineteenth century America. More than dry legal documents, these cases provide a captivating window into marital life—and strife—in the border South during the tumultuous years before, during, and after the Civil War. Allison Dorothy Fredette has brought these primary documents to light, revealing the inner thoughts, legal hardships, and day-to-day struggles of these average citizens. In Wheeling, West Virginia, the seat of Ohio County, courtrooms bore witness to men and women from various ethnic, racial, and class backgrounds who shared shockingly intimate details of their lives and relationships. Some tried desperately to defend their masculinity or femininity; others hoped to restore their reputations to the legal system and to their community. In an era of uncertainty—when the country was torn in two, when the Wheeling community became the capital of a new state, and when activists across the country began to push for women’s rights in the household and family—the divorce cases of ordinary couples reveal changing attitudes toward marriage, gender, and legal separation in a booming border city perched on the edge of the South.

Book Smokestacks in the Hills

Download or read book Smokestacks in the Hills written by Lou Martin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long considered an urban phenomenon, industrialization also transformed the American countryside. Lou Martin weaves the narrative of how the relocation of steel and pottery factories to Hancock County, West Virginia, created a rural and small-town working class--and what that meant for communities and for labor. As Martin shows, access to land in and around steel and pottery towns allowed residents to preserve rural habits and culture. Workers in these places valued place and local community. Because of their belief in localism, an individualistic ethic of "making do," and company loyalty, they often worked to place limits on union influence. At the same time, this localism allowed workers to adapt to the dictates of industrial capitalism and a continually changing world on their own terms--and retain rural ways to a degree unknown among their urbanized peers. Throughout, Martin ties these themes to illuminating discussions of capital mobility, the ways in which changing work experiences defined gender roles, and the persistent myth that modernizing forces bulldozed docile local cultures. Revealing and incisive, Smokestacks in the Hills reappraises an overlooked stratum of American labor history and contributes to the ongoing dialogue on shifts in national politics in the postwar era.

Book Federal Population Censuses  1790 1890

Download or read book Federal Population Censuses 1790 1890 written by National Archives (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Carpenter Chronicles

Download or read book Carpenter Chronicles written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Federal Population Censuses 1790 1890

Download or read book Federal Population Censuses 1790 1890 written by United States. National Archives and Records Service and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Along Pond Creek Road

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  • Author : Helen M. Kennedy
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2010-10-25
  • ISBN : 1453536884
  • Pages : 602 pages

Download or read book Along Pond Creek Road written by Helen M. Kennedy and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along Pond Creek Road is a look at the families making up the ancestry of Alda Buckley Kennedy. The stories cover the whole of American history: emigration to Williamsburg, a Protestant Rebellion in Maryland, the Revolutionary War, flatboating on the Ohio River and pioneering in log cabins, conflicts with Indians, the War of 1812, the Civil War, Abraham Lincolns wedding, etc. We are blessed to be able to know so much about our ancestors.

Book Fourteenth Census of the United States  1920

Download or read book Fourteenth Census of the United States 1920 written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sixteenth Census of the United States  1940

Download or read book Sixteenth Census of the United States 1940 written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 1266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliographic Guide to North American History

Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to North American History written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Virginia Tax Payers  1782 87

Download or read book Virginia Tax Payers 1782 87 written by Augusta Bridgland Fothergill and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Genealogical Helper

Download or read book The Genealogical Helper written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-07 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Hancock County  Indiana

Download or read book History of Hancock County Indiana written by John H. Binford and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Counties of the United States and Their Genealogical Value

Download or read book The Counties of the United States and Their Genealogical Value written by E. Kay Kirkham and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: