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Black Women, Agency, and the Civil War

Throughout much of the twentieth century historians framed the Civil War as a political and military driven historical process, which

September has become the month to remember disasters. Apart from September 11, there is the memory of the aftermath of

Fifty years ago, Emmaus House opened its doors for the first time. Located in Peoplestown, a deprived neighborhood southeast of

An eerie calm has settled over the 57-acre lot where the Pruitt-Igoe Homes once loomed over St. Louis, Missouri. Today,

The 1830s was the high-tide of Jacksonianism, an era many historians consider the nadir of early American history. Although universal