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Author : Del Shores
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573694966
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Confederate States of America
ISBN : WISC:89061990032
Author : Margaret Ripley Wolfe
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813189833
From Gone with the Wind to Designing Women, images of southern females that emerge from fiction and film tend to obscure the diversity of American women from below the Mason-Dixon line. In a work that deftly lays bare a myriad of myths and stereotypes while presenting true stories of ambition, grit, and endurance, Margaret Ripley Wolfe offers the first professional historical synthesis of southern women's experiences across the centuries. In telling their story, she considers many ordinary lives—those of Native-American, African-American, and white women from the Tidewater region and Appalachia to the Mississippi Delta to the Gulf Coastal Plain, women whose varied economic and social circumstances resist simple explanations. Wolfe examines critical eras, outstanding personalities and groups—wives, mothers, pioneers, soldiers, suffragists, politicians, and civil rights activists—and the impact of the passage of time and the pressure of historical forces on the region's females. The historical southern woman, argues Wolfe, has operated under a number of handicaps, bearing the full weight of southern history, mythology, and legend. Added to these have been the limitations of being female in a patriarchal society and the constraining images of the "southern belle" and her mentor, the "southern lady." In addition, the specter of race has haunted all southern women. Gender is a common denominator, but according to Wolfe, it does not transcend race, class, point of view, or a host of other factors. Intrigued by the imagery as well as the irony of biblical stories and southern history, Wolfe titles her work Daughters of Canaan. Canaan symbolizes promise, and for activist women in particular the South has been about promise as much as fulfillment. General readers and students of southern and women's history will be drawn to Wolfe's engrossing chronicle.
Author : Leigh Clemons
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292752078
Ask anyone to name an archetypal Texan, and you're likely to get a larger-than-life character from film or television (say John Wayne's Davy Crockett or J. R. Ewing of TV's Dallas) or a politician with that certain swagger (think LBJ or George W. Bush). That all of these figures are white and male and bursting with self-confidence is no accident, asserts Leigh Clemons. In this thoughtful study of what makes a "Texan," she reveals how Texan identity grew out of the history—and, even more, the myth—of the heroic deeds performed by Anglo men during the Texas Revolution and the years of the Republic and how this identity is constructed and maintained by theatre and other representational practices. Clemons looks at a wide range of venues in which "Texanness" is performed, including historic sites such as the Alamo, the battlefield at Goliad, and the San Jacinto Monument; museums such as the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum; seasonal outdoor dramas such as Texas! at Palo Duro Canyon; films such as John Wayne's The Alamo and the IMAX's Alamo: The Price of Freedom; plays and TV shows such as the Tuna trilogy, Dallas, and King of the Hill; and the Cavalcade of Texas performance at the 1936 Texas Centennial. She persuasively demonstrates that these performances have created a Texan identity that has become a brand, a commodity that can be sold to the public and even manipulated for political purposes.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995-06-15
Category : Pioneers
ISBN : 9781563112140
The Republic of Texas has a vivid past - its ancestors ventured west to settle an uneasy land - from exploration by the Spaniards to war with the Mexican government and its declaration of independence in 1836. Read about these ancestor's stories through hundreds of biographies with photographs of most. A comprehensive index provides easy reference for genealogical research.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UGA:32108026954399
Author : United Confederate Veterans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : United States
ISBN : CHI:100972436
Author : J. R. Edmondson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493057597
First published in 2000, J. R. Edmondson's The Alamo Story: From Early History to Current Conflicts thoroughly examines the famous "Shrine of Texas Liberty" from its origin as a Spanish New World mission to its modern status. It has been lauded as the “best" and "most readable” of all historical accounts devoted to the legendary mission-fortress. The original edition has been celebrated for over twenty years for its comprehensive approach to Alamo scholarship and for presenting the famous battle in the context of both American and Mexican history. This second edition of The Alamo Story includes new information about the battle and those involved, including expanded stories on the roles of minorities and some illustrations by noted artist Mark Lemon. The book also features a new chapter on Benjamin Rush Milam's assault on San Antonio with only three hundred Texians, the battle that set the stage for the siege of the Alamo less than three months later. And there is an extensive epilogue on the present-day conflicts about the physical Alamo compound, as historic preservationists clash with political and popular opinions in San Antonio.
Author : United Confederate Veterans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Confederate States of America
ISBN : NYPL:33433079010454
Author : William W. Sellers
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1902-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Del Shores
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573663727
Willi is the trailer trash housewife of the title. Her abusive husband won't let her get a job, one of her children is dead, and the other is verboten by her husband because he's gay. Her best and only friend, a large black woman who lives next door, worries that Willi's husband will end up killing her. A new woman comes to live in the trailer park and ends up having an affair with Willi's husband. When she finds out, Willi decides to get a job at the local Wal-Mart (a first step on the way to liberating herself from him). Her husband will have none of it, and quoting the bible about how a wife is supposed to obey her husband, threatens all three women with a gun, and then beats Willi to within an inch of her life. She recovers enough to finally shoot him, releasing her from the torment that she'd been living in for years.--From publisher description.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Cattle
ISBN : UCAL:B3153560
Author : John Henry Brown
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9783849674458
The book leads the reader through the past to the present and here leaves him amid active and progressive men who are advancing, along with him, toward the future. Including, as it does, lives of men now living, it constitutes a connecting link between what has gone before and what is to come after. It is therefore fitting that it should be dedicated to a prominent man of our day in preference to one of former times. The matter presented, in the nature of things, is largely biographical. There can be no foundation for history without biography. History is a generalization of particulars. It presents wide extended views. To use a paradox, history gives us but a part of history. That other part which it does not give us, the part which introduces us to the thoughts, aspirations and daily life of a people, is supplied by biography. The men whose deeds are recorded in this book were or are deeply identified with Texas, and the preservation in this volume in enduring form of some remembrance of them—their names, who and what they were—has been a pleasant task to one who feels a deep interest and pride in Texas—its past history, its heroes and future destiny.
Author : Daughters of the American Revolution. Continental Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X030474680
Author : Robin Sterling
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781365130915
The Guntersville Democrat was not the first newspaper to be published in Marshall County, but is the one most complete from the 19th Century. It was first published in October of 1880 by a Gadsden newspaperman, William M. Meeks. Over the years, it chronicled much of the early history of Marshall County. This second book in the series attempts to capture mentions of births, marriages, deaths and obituaries It also reproduces items of interest and importance in the development of the county--all with a full name index. In this volume you can find reports of the Marshall County Gold Mine, a haunted house, long lists of Confederate soldiers, the completion of the Tennessee and Coosa Railroad, and many other items of historical and genealogical significance. The early history of Marshall County is written on the pages of its newspapers. This book will be valuable to any student of the history and genealogy of Marshall County.