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In 1901, Julia Tuell married a man who taught on several Indian reservations. While raising her children and doing the myriad tasks expected of a woman, she found time to become a photographer. This is a collection of her photographs, accompanied by text from Dan Aadland.
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• Emerson and the progressive tradition.--Theodore Parker: "the battle of the nineteenth century."--Henry George: the great paradox.--Edward Bellamy: village utopian.--Henry Demarest Lloyd: the middle-class conscience.--William Dean Howells: the gentleman from Altruria.--Thorstein Veblen: moralist and rhetorician.--Theodore Roosevelt and Brooks Adams: pseudo-progressives.--In retrospect: 1912-1950.--Notes on sources (p. 309-321)

What does it mean to be a Latino male in the US today? The author shows how the old roles - womanizer, macho, patriarch - are becoming unlivable, and demonstrates a new way of living by redefining machismo as the pride in self that allows Latino men to choose roles for themselves.
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• Peering into the reflections
• Environmental and cultural background
• Hohokam social organization
• Projects at Pueblo Grande and elsewhere
• Establishing the geographic source of temper-- Chemical assays of ceramic clay fractions
• Vessel-form and technological variation at Pueblo Grande
• A model of Hohokam ceramic production and exchange
• Canal system 2 and classic period communities
• Social change at Pueblo Grande
• A trial model of sociopolitical change
• Layers of understanding.

Major Henry Livermore Abbott of the 20th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was the most widely known and highly respected officer of his rank to serve in the Army of the Potomac. He distinguished himself in every battle in which he participated, from Ball's Bluff until the Battle of the Wilderness, where he died in command of his regiment. Fallen Leaves is a collection of Abbott's wartime letters to his family and friends, the majority published here for the first time. Robert Garth Scott's introduction contains a biographical sketch of Abbott that offers the most complete account of his life to date and, in his epilogue, recounts the details of Abbott's final battle and death. Also published with the letters are more than 30 photographs, many of them showing members of the 20th Massachusetts. Abbott's letters convey an immediacy which gives readers a sense of being part of an inner circle of friends and relatives. This quality lends itself to fresh and compelling reading for Civil War scholars, buffs, and general readers alike.
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The American presidency has fascinated and confounded scholars for over 200 years. Is the institution redefined by each new occupant, or is the presidency merely a cog in the constitutional machine created in 1787? Philip Abbott argues that the presidency can best be viewed as an institution framed by the patterns on American political thought and culture. Presidents govern most effectively when they are able to intuit and interpret basic predispositions in political culture as epitomized by the policies and leadership of past presidents. The presidency is an "exemplary" institution from which occupants attempt to "read" and then shape political culture through the imaginative and selective adaptation of the thought, policies and leadership styles of past leaders.
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United States; foreign relations; politics and government; history.

World politics; international relations; political and economic aspects; China; foreign relations; United States; politics and government; 21st century.

• A target on his back
• A fever in the blood
• For want of a nail
• A lucky shot?
• A story too good to fact check
• Deathbed vigil
• We traced the wound
• Ballistics: the science of Lincoln's gunshot wound
• Did Lincoln's doctors doom him?
• Embalming Lincoln
• We mourn a father slain
• The politics of death
• Binding up the nation's wounds
• Death will not be cheated
• Now he belongs to the ages
• There will be blood
• "Not so black and shiney as it was long ago".

In this book, E. Lawrence Abel sheds much-needed light on the fascinating details surrounding the death of Abraham Lincoln, including John Wilkes Booth's illness that turned him into an assassin, the medical treatment the president is alleged to have received after he was shot, and the significance of his funeral for the American public. The author provides an in-depth analysis of the science behind the assassination, a discussion of the medical care Lincoln received at the time he was shot and the treatment he would have received if he were shot today, and the impact of his death on his contemporaries and the American public. The book examines Lincoln's fatalism and his unbridled ambition in terms of empirical psychological science rather than the fanciful psychoanalytical explanations that often characterize Lincoln psychohistories. The medical chapters challenge the long-standing description of Lincoln's last hours and examine the debate about whether Lincoln's doctors inadvertently doomed him.
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• I've broken my promise
• Old sins cast long shadows
• They idolized him
• Young and pretty Maggie Mitchell
• This Harpers Ferry business
• The Star sisters: Helen and Lucille Western
• I cannot stoop to that which I despise
• Almost an eunuch
• Little rehearsals: Louise Wooster
• The southern marseillaise
• All for love and murder: Henrietta Irving
• My goose hangs high
• True grit
• Effie and Alice
• Imagine my helping that wounded soldier
• The most beautiful woman on the American stage
• Storming about the country is sad work
• Not a secesh
• Isabel Sumner
• A gang of misfits
• Lucy Lambert Hale
• Anything that pleases you: Ella Strr
• Assassination
• I have too great a soul to die like a criminal
• Ella Starr
• Asia and Mary All
• "It cannot be denied": Lucy Hale
• Effie Germon
• Alice Gray
• Helen Western
• Fanny Brown
• Henrietta Irving
• Maggie Mitchell
• Ada Gray
• Isabel Sumner
• Louise Wooster
• Clara Morris
• Martha Mills.

When John Wilkes Booth died--shot inside a burning barn and dragged out twelve days after he assassinated President Lincoln--all he had in his pocket were a compass, a candle, a diary, and five photographs of five different women. They were not ordinary women. Four of them were among the most beautiful actresses of the day; the fifth was Booth's wealthy fianc&eacutee. And those five women are just the tip of the iceberg. Before he shot the president of the United States and entered the annals of history as a killer, actor John Wilkes Booth had quite a way with women. There was the actress who cut his throat and almost killed him in a jealous rage. There was the prostitute who tried to kill herself because he abandoned her. There was the actress who would swear she witnessed him murdering Lincoln, even though she was thousands of miles away at the time. John Wilkes Booth was hungry for fame, touchy about politics, and a notorious womanizer. But this book isn't about John Wilkes Booth---not really. This book is about his women: women who were once notorious in their own right; women who were consumed by love, jealousy, strife, and heartbreak; women whose lives took wild turns before and after Lincoln's assassination; women whom have been condemned to the footnotes of history... until now.
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This work examines the history of the Dene, one of the aboriginal peoples of Canada's western subarctic, from ancient times to the present.
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