Search Results - "Mothers"

Mothers of invention women of the slaveholding South in the American Civil War / by Faust, Drew Gilpin

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Founding mothers : The women who raised our nation / by Roberts, Cokie

Federal fathers & mothers a social history of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933 / by Cahill, Cathleen D.

“…Federal fathers and mothers…”
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Our sacred maíz is our mother : indigeneity and belonging in the Americas / by Rodríguez, Roberto Cintli, 1954-, Hernández, Verónica Castillo

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Lillian Carter : a compassionate life / by Hayter-Menzies, Grant, 1964-

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The button box a daughter's loving memoir of Mrs. George S. Patton / by Totten, Ruth Ellen Patton, 1915-

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Gendered resistance : women, slavery, and the legacy of Margaret Garner /

Table of Contents: “…Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Gendered Resistance / Delores M. Walters -- A Mother's Arithmetic : Elizabeth Clark Gaines's Journey from Slavery to Freedom / Mary E. …”
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Mythohistorical interventions the Chicano movement and its legacies / by Bebout, Lee

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : mythohistorical interventions at the intersection of American studies and Chicana/o studies -- Locating the mythohistorical : three tales in the struggle for hegemony -- Hero making in el movimiento : Reies López Tijerina and the Chicano nationalist imaginary -- Of mothers and revolucionarias : movement Chicanas fashioning a feminism of their own -- Queer genealogies : Chicana lesbian feminism & the post-movement era -- Conclusion : echoes of el movimiento and other mythohistorical interventions.…”
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Family life in Native America by Volo, James M., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…An environmental geography of the northeast Woodlands -- The structure of Woodland society -- Native American kinship systems -- Child rearing from birth to marriage -- A world wrought from nature -- The bountiful earth mother -- Native American ceremonies and rituals -- The tomahawk and the cross -- Wilderness warfare -- The fur trade -- Intertribal trade and conflict -- Dispossessing the First Nations -- The Indian alliances -- Fighting back : the dark and bloody ground.…”
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Emancipation's diaspora race and reconstruction in the upper Midwest / by Schwalm, Leslie A. (Leslie Ann), 1956-

Table of Contents: “…A full realization of the barbarities of slavery -- A time of scattering -- Overrun with free Negroes: the politics of wartime emancipation and -- Migration in the upper Midwest -- To go and help be free: migration and the black military experience -- The building up of our race: creating a life in freedom -- Freedom was all they had: civil rights and northern reconstruction -- Agonizing groans of mothers and slave-scarred veterans: history -- Commemoration, and memoir in the aftermath of slavery.…”
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To live upon hope Mohicans and missionaries in the eighteenth-century Northeast / by Wheeler, Rachel M.

Table of Contents: “…Preservation: The village matriarch and the young mother ; Mohican women and the community of the blood -- pt. 4. …”
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Biting through the skin an Indian kitchen in America's heartland / by Furstenau, Nina Mukerjee, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Transformation -- Two brides -- Little India -- Journey -- Table grace -- Small things satisfied -- Indian breads -- Grand Lake menu for a guru -- An Indian kitchen in Kansas -- Attic fans and flying typewriters -- Mother tongue -- On the road with Amiya and Rani -- All our Tupperware is stained with turmeric -- Strength of a nation -- Street foods -- Six recipe cards, a wing and a prayer, circa 1984 -- Bishshwayya -- A (not so) funny thing happened on the way to Didu's house -- Pop culture India.…”
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Barry Goldwater and the remaking of the American political landscape

Table of Contents: “…Knowland, and the rightward drift of the Republican Party / Michael Bowen -- The dealers and the darling : conservative media and the candidacy of Barry Goldwater / Nicole Hemmer -- Goldwater in Dixie : race, region, and the rise of the right / Joseph Crespino -- Goldwater's "moral mothers" : miscalculations of gender in the 1964 Republican presidential campaign / Michelle Nickerson -- Phoenix's cowboy conservatives in Washington / Elizabeth Tandy Shermer -- Green Goldwater : Barry Goldwater, federal environmentalism, and the transformation of modern conservatism / Brian Allen Drake -- Time is an elusive companion : Jesse Helms, Barry Goldwater, and the dynamic of modern conservatism / William A. …”
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The transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760

Table of Contents: “…Worth -- Trouble coming southward : emanations through and from Virginia, 1607-1675 / Helen C. Rountree -- The mother of necessity : Carolina, the Creek Indians, and the making of a new order in the American Southeast, 1670-1763 / Steven C. …”
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Shrill hurrahs : women, gender, and racial violence in South Carolina, 1865-1900 / by Gillin, Kate F. C.

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Traditions of the Osage stories collected and translated by Francis la Flesche /

Table of Contents: “…Allegorical story of tribal organziation -- Origin story of the Wolf Clan (Pah-nee-wah-with-ta) -- Origin story of the Black Bear Clan (Bacon Rind) -- Creation of the house of mystery (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Earth names and sky names (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Origin story of the Sho'-ka (Saucy Calf) -- The tattooing custom (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Haircut of the gentle sky clan (Shun-kah-mo-lah) -- Finding of the four colors (Hlu-ah-wah-tah) -- What to dream of (Saucy Calf) -- Instructions to the mother (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Instructions to the wife of a priest (Saucy Calf) -- Instructions in the painting of the sacred robes (Hlu-ah-wah-tah) -- Counting the O'don (Shun-kah-mo-lah) -- Tradition of the Omaha departure form the Osage (Pah-nee-wah-with-tah) -- Making the Buffalo come (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Deer-hunting stories -- The vision of a war leader (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Death of an old warrior -- Origin of the hair bundle (Me-ke-wah-ti-an-kah) -- Origin of the whistle bundle -- Origin of the mourning dance (Black Dog) -- The lost warrior (Saucy Calf) -- Captive of the Pawnee -- The boy driven from home -- The woman war leader (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga) -- The youngest wife -- The unfaithful wife (Pah-nee-wah-with-tah) -- Mourning dance for yellow ears (Saucy Calf) -- The two young men who mourned their living fater (Andrew Jackson) -- The wa-kon'-da-gi, or medicine men -- Strange medicine man -- The death of Village Maker -- Big Bear and Runs-to-meet-men -- The cruel medicine man and the orphan -- Wah-ti-an-kah (Bacon Rind) -- Dreamers (Shun-kah-mo-lah) -- The woman dreamer -- Spirit woman (Hlu-ah-wah-tah) -- The flute ghost story (Ben Wheeler) -- The young warrier and his dead wife -- Return of the dead (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- The little people (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga) -- The demon animal (Ben Wheeler) -- The squirrel maidens -- The hawk and the horned owl (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga) -- The four coyotes and the persimmons (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga) -- The coyote and the woodpecker -- The coyote and the fawn.…”
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