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  • Opium Slavery

    Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis

    Series series Civil War America
    During the Civil War, the utility and widespread availability of opium and morphine made opiates essential to wartime medicine. After the war ended, thousands of ailing soldiers became addicted, or “enslaved,” as nineteenth-century Americans phrased it. Veterans, their families, and communities struggled to cope with addiction’s health and social consequences. Medical and government authorities ... Leer más

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  • Playing at War

    Identity and Memory in Civil War Video Games

    Series series American Wars and Popular Culture
    Playing at War offers an innovative focus on Civil War video games as significant sites of memory creation, distortion, and evolution in popular culture. With fifteen essays by historians, the collection analyzes the emergence and popularity of video games that topically engage the period surrounding the American Civil War, from the earliest console games developed in the 1980s through the web ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Substances of War

    Drugs, Alcohol, Tobacco, and the Civil War

    Series Libro 32 - UnCivil Wars
    The Substances of War explores how drugs, alcohol, and other substances were perceived, used, and fought over during the Civil War era. Because the Civil War unfolded in a culture already saturated in drugs, the essays in this collection take substance use and abuse as the center of its study, charting the consumption of many substances—from water, coffee, tobacco, and alcohol to quinine and ... Leer más

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  • So Conceived and So Dedicated

    Intellectual Life in the Civil War-Era North

    "Outstanding essays" exploring how educated Northerners viewed, and discussed, the Civil War (Michael B. Ballard, Civil War News).With contributions from multiple historians, this volume addresses the role intellectuals played in framing the Civil War and implementing their vision of a victorious Union. Broadly defining "intellectuals" to encompass doctors, lawyers, sketch artists, college ... Leer más

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  • Medical Apartheid

    The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

    NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • The first full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. No one concerned with issues of public health and racial justice can afford not to read this masterful book."[Washington] has unearthed a shocking amount of information and shaped it into a riveting, ... Leer más

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  • Slavery and Public History

    The Tough Stuff of American Memory

    "A fascinating collection of essays" by eminent historians exploring how we teach, remember, and confront the history and legacy of American slavery ( Booklist Online).In recent years, the culture wars have called into question the way America's history of slavery is depicted in books, films, television programs, historical sites, and museums. In the first attempt to examine the historiography of ... Leer más

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  • Madness

    Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

    **In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, this New York Times bestseller is a page-turning account of one of the nation’s last segregated asylums."A book that left me breathless." —Clint Smith, New York Times bestselling author of How The Word Is Passed"Fascinating." —The New York Times**For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports ... Leer más

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  • Her Best-Kept Secret

    Why Women Drink-And How They Can Regain Control

    For readers of Quit Like a Woman, this “engaging account of women and drink, [cites] fascinating studies about modern stressors…and evidence that some problem drinkers can learn moderation….Bound to stir controversy” (People).In Her Best-Kept Secret, journalist Gabrielle Glaser uncovers a hidden-in-plain-sight drinking epidemic. Using “investigative rigor and thoughtful analysis” (The Boston Globe ... Leer más

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  • The Princeton Guide to Historical Research

    Series series Skills for Scholars
    The essential handbook for doing historical research in the twenty-first centuryThe Princeton Guide to Historical Research provides students, scholars, and professionals with the skills they need to practice the historian's craft in the digital age, while never losing sight of the fundamental values and techniques that have defined historical scholarship for centuries.Zachary Schrag begins by ... Leer más

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  • Bellevue

    Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital

    From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine.Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled crime victims, vicious psychopaths, assorted derelicts, lunatics, and exotic-disease sufferers. In its two and a ... Leer más

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  • The State and the Soldier

    A History of Civil-Military Relations in the United States

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    America's Founding Fathers feared that a standing army would be a permanent political danger, yet the U.S. military has in the 250 years since become a bulwark of democracy. Kori Schake explains why in this compelling history of civil-military relations from independence to the challenges of the present.The book begins with General Washington's vital foundational example of subordination to ... Leer más

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  • The Lives They Left Behind

    Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic

    The acclaimed portrait of institutionalized patients whose abandoned possessions recall their forgotten lives“A deeply moving testament to the human side of mental illness.” —Oliver SacksWhen Willard State Hospital closed its doors in 1995, after operating as one of New York State’s largest mental institutions for over 120 years, a forgotten attic filled with suitcases belonging to former patients ... Leer más

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