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Facing the Music: Faith and Meaning in Popular Songs

1 review
Darrell W. Cluck, Catherine S. George, ...

Chalice Press, 1999

Jesus Christ teams up with Metallica and others...!
Excellent material to be used with our churches' youth. Learn how to use positively bands like Metallica, Smashing Pumpkins, Madonna, Van Halen, Poison, Crash Test Dummies, and others, in order to spread God's message of justice, love, equality and true Christian life with meaning.

Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War

1 review

Oxford University Press, USA, 1992

Gender Wartime Crisis in a Historical Perspective
Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War is a collection of essays pertaining to the crisis in gender relations that accompanied the Civil War in America. As a collection, the essays present a narrative that chronicles the various impacts on gender that affected men and women, the North and the South, as well as slaves and non-slaves. What emerges is a cohesive body of text that is ...

Fanny Kemble's Journals

3 reviews
Fanny Kemble

Harvard University Press, 2000

Great Look into the mind of a powerful women
I must say, I have never seen insight so dignified on such a subject in all my years of book review. When I read this book, every page enlighten me with an overwhelming sensation of sadness, guilt, freedom and anger. Every one of my emotions were totally stimulated by this master piece of modern society. Regardless of the date in which Fanny published this book, it still leaves a gruesome ...

Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars

4 reviews
Catherine Clinton

Simon & Schuster, 2000

You Won't Be Able to Put the Book Down
A combination of excellent writting and the fascinating subject -Fanny Kemble - make this a book you'll find difficult to put down. After reading this book, I, too, long to know more about this charismatic woman. Regardless of whether or not your interests lie in learning more about women during the Civil War, Fanny Kemble's life and times is a thoroughly compelling story. I originally saw ...

The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South

1 review

Oxford University Press, USA, 1997

A top notch collection on an important subject.
Anyone who has studied the history of slavery in the US must recognize that the issue of sex and race is a critical sub-text. Clinton and Glillespie's collection of essays provides a variety of well-thought-out perspectives on the issue. Scholars will find the work thought-provoking and a valuable addition to readings for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses.

I, Too, Sing America: 3 Centuries of African American Poetry

2 reviews

Audio Bookshelf, 2000

I, Too Sing America
Not only does this book give you a variety of African-American poets,it also supplies you with a brief background of each author. This gives you some of the ingredients it took to make each poem. There are thirty-six poems total. Of the twenty-five poets, Clinton,(author), selects more than one piece from some of them. For those who only know of a few poets, this book allows you to learn about ...

Scholastic Encyclopedia of the Civil War

2 reviews
Catherine Clinton

Scholastic, 1999

Scholastic Encyclopedia of the Civil War
My 11 year old daughter is a Civil War buff. She says this book is "cool" because it shows actual battle photographs.

Hold the Flag High

2 reviews
Catherine Clinton

Amistad, 2005

Inspirational
This book is the story about the Massachusetts 54th Regiment during the Civil War, which was all African American. This book appears to be designed for early elementary students, but the nature of the artwork would be appealing to older students, including English language learners. This perspective story could be an excellent way to engage students to talk about the Civil War, ethnicity, ...

The Women's War in the South: Recollections and Reflections of the American Civil War

1 review

Cumberland House Publishing, 1999

A wonderful collection of Southern homefront stories
This great book tells the often overlooked women's stories from the American Civil War. Even more specific, it focuses entirely on Southern women from that era, who wrote vivid descriptions of life on the homefront during the bloodiest war in American history. From brave spies like Rose Greenhow to nurses like Emily Mason, their stories are all collected here. There's also a chapter on Loreta ...

Harriet Tubman

17 reviews

Little, Brown and Company, 2004

A BLACK 'GENERAL' LEADS HER PEOPLE TO FREEDOM
The story of the ex-slave, Civil War `general' and black liberation fighter Harriet Tubman is the stuff of legends. Although in recent decades she has received more of the proper attention due her the fight she so ardently fought for the real freedom for blacks still is the wave of the future. Her early story, in any case, is the all to familiar slavery story of arbitrary beatings, random acts of ...

The Plantation Mistress

14 reviews
Catherine Clinton

Pantheon, 1984

An honest description of the role of plantation mistresses
I think the negative reviewers who discredit the book for being biased are, in fact, displaying their own prejudices. I have searched through the available literature on this subject, which is incredibly sparse, and this is the first book I have found that even attempted to portray these women's lives with any detail or realism. The author researched this topic as thoroughly as possible and ...

The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century

1 review
Catherine Clinton

Hill and Wang, 1999

The struggle for recognition by Early American women
This is a fine scholarly work, well researched and very informative. Normally, this is not the type of book I read, but I was pleased to have done so. I highly recommend this book to the public in general, and in particular to those fans of American history. It will make an excellent text for college level courses in Women's Studies and Early American History. Early American women, be they ...

Civil War Stories

3 reviews
Catherine Clinton

University of Georgia Press, 1998

Great for the Civil War buff.
A fascinating way to look at the Civil War. Very approachable. The book looks at some everyday and extraordinary people whose lives were forever transformed by the impact of war. Two sisters, one a staunch defender of the Union, the other a passionate advocate of the rebel cause, are traumatized by the divide the Civil War imposes.

Tara Revisited: Women, War, & the Plantation Legend

4 reviews
Catherine Clinton

Abbeville Press, 1995

Factual Alternative to a Myth
Southerners carry a chip on their shoulder when it comes to the Lost Cause, so any book which attempts to set the record straight is an exercise in masochism, certain to be fired upon by those weened on Plantation Mythology. Clinton investigates the development of the "Tara Mystique", that belief that plantation life consisted of happy slaves working for the love of the masters and ...

Battle Scars: Gender and Sexuality in the American Civil War

Oxford University Press, USA, 2006

Over a decade ago, the publication of Divided Houses ushered in a new field of scholarship on gender and the Civil War. Following in its wake, Battle Scars showcases insights from award-winning historians as well as emerging scholars. This volume depicts the ways in which gender, race, nationalism, religion, literary culture, sexual mores, and even epidemiology underwent radical transformations from when Americans went to war in 1861 through ...

Build Our Nation (We the People, Level 5) (Audiocassettes)
Sarah Bednarz, Catherine Clinton, ...

Houghton Mifflin, 1997

Boxed set of 11 Audiocassettes to accompany Build Our Nation.

The Black Soldier: 1492 to the Present
Catherine Clinton

Houghton Mifflin, 2000

Black soldiers have fought and died in the Americas for centuries, forming a chain of warriors stretching back nearly 500 years. Yet their contribution to our nation's history has been neglected, and the battles they've had to fight against racism and prejudice have often been as challenging as facing the enemy on the field of battle. This exciting story of African-American heroism traces the history of the black soldier, from the African ...

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