This series explores pivotal moments and conflicts in early North American history, grounded in the specific places where events unfolded. Each volume delves into unique communities and their lived experiences, revealing how local developments were intertwined with broader global contexts. It masterfully blends scholarly sophistication with an emphasis on local particularities and trajectories. Discover a compelling journey through history, bringing the past to life through the very locales where it was made.
The everyday lives of Irish and Africans are obscured by sources constructed by elites. Through her research, Shaw overcomes the constraints such sources impose by pushing methodological boundaries to fill in the gaps, silences, and absences that dominate the historical record.
Independence Day provided an opportunity for a diverse citizenry to share in a nationalistic revelry explicitly promoting political independence and republican government. This title explores how Fourth of July celebrations in the urban Midwest helped to define patriotic nationalism during the nineteenth century.
Focuses on nineteen counties on the Kansas-Missouri border, tracing slavery's rise and fall from the earliest years of American settlement through the Civil War along this critical geographical, political, and social fault line. Kristen Epps explores slavery's emergence from an upper South slaveholding culture and its development into a small-scale system.
Trade, Conversion, and Indian Slavery in the Old Dominion, 1646-1722
The 1646 Treaty of Peace with Necotowance marked a significant shift in the dynamics between Native Americans and English settlers in Virginia, establishing a tributary system that defined their interactions. This book explores how the English codified tributary status for allied Native tribes while differentiating them from non-allied groups, examining the implications of these classifications on relationships and power dynamics in the region.