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Opposing the Second Corps at Antietam

The Fight for the Confederate Left and Center on America's Bloodiest Day

By: Marion V. Armstrong

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Opposing the Second Corps at Antietam

The Fight for the Confederate Left and Center on America's Bloodiest Day

By: Marion V. Armstrong

Intro -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Preface -- 1. Maintaining the Initiative -- 2. The West Woods -- 3. The Sunken Road -- 4. The Afternoon -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817319042

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9780817319045

The Secret Wound

Love-Melancholy and Early Modern Romance

By: Marion Wells

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The Secret Wound

Love-Melancholy and Early Modern Romance

By: Marion Wells

This book offers a new reading of early modern romance in the light of historically contemporary accounts of mind, and specifically the medical tradition of love-melancholy. The book argues that the medical profile of the melancholic lover provides an essential context for understanding the characteristic patterns of romance: narrative deferral, epistemological uncertainty, and the endless quest for a quasi-phantasmic beloved. Unlike many recent studies of romance, this book establishes a detailed historical basis for investigating the psychological structure of romance. Wells begins by tracing the development of the medical disorder first known in the Latin west as amor hereos (lovesickness) from its earliest roots in Greek and Arabic medicine to its translation into the Latin medical tradition. Drawing on this detailed historical material, the book considers three important early modern romances: Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, and Spenser's The Faerie Queene, concluding with a brief consideration of the significance of this literary and medical legacy for Romanticism. Most broadly, the interdisciplinary nature of this study allows the author to investigate the central critical problem of early modern subjectivity in substantially new ways.

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390

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Stanford University Press

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0804767440

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9780804767446

Republic of Texas: Poll Lists for 1846

By: Marion Day Mullins

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Republic of Texas: Poll Lists for 1846

By: Marion Day Mullins

Arranged alphabetically, this work lists the names and counties of residence of approximately 18,000 Texas taxpayers. (A "poll" tax of one dollar was levied on every white male resident over the age of twenty-one and on women who were heads of household.) By 1846, when Texas became the thirty-sixth state in the Union, there were sixty-seven county governments already organized as functioning units of the state, yet no authorized census of the state was undertaken until 1850. This 1846 poll list, compiled from the original tax rolls housed in the Texas State Archives, is actually the nearest thing we have to a complete census of the period.

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194

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806305983

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9780806305981

Jane Pratt

North Carolina's First Congresswoman

By: Marion Elliott Deerhake

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Jane Pratt

North Carolina's First Congresswoman

By: Marion Elliott Deerhake

On May 25th, 1946, after 22 years as a congressional secretary, Jane Pratt was elected as North Carolina's first congresswoman. The press reported with great interest how "Miss Jane" won by a landslide with only a $100 campaign budget. She hit the ground running, voting to the pass the Atomic Energy Act, working tirelessly to mitigate a century of flood disasters in western North Carolina, and serving the constituents she knew so well. This first biography of Congresswoman Jane Pratt recounts her youth and fascinating career on Capitol Hill. It also provides a unique federal view of North Carolina's early 20th century history. After working as a rare female newspaper editor in the early 1920s, Pratt became secretary to five tarheel congressmen over some 30 years. Her career spanned the roaring twenties, the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. Pratt's amazing network was a who's who of leaders in North Carolina and Washington, DC. Her decision not to run for re-election offers insight into why 46 years passed before the state elected another woman to Congress.

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318

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McFarland

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1476692629

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9781476692623

With Ever Joyful Hearts

Essays on Liturgy and Music Honoring Marion J. Hatchett

By: J. Neil Alexander,Marion J. Hatchett

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With Ever Joyful Hearts

Essays on Liturgy and Music Honoring Marion J. Hatchett

By: J. Neil Alexander,Marion J. Hatchett

The occasion of Dr. Hatchett's thirtieth anniversary as professor of liturgics and church music at the School of Theology of the University of the South is being celebrated with this stimulating collection of essays by an international cadre of authors.

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425

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Church Publishing, Inc.

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0898693217

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9780898693218

Women and Arthurian Literature

Seizing the Sword

By: Marion Wynne-Davies

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Women and Arthurian Literature

Seizing the Sword

By: Marion Wynne-Davies

This is the first full-length study of the role of women in Arthurian literature. It covers writing from the medieval period, the Renaissance, the Victorian age and in contemporary fiction. Covering the key Arthurian texts, such as Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Malory's Morte D'arthur, Spenser's The Faerie Queene and Tennyson's Idylls, it also investigates the less well-known works by women: Lady Charlotte Guest's Mabinogion, Julia Margaret Cameron's illustration to Tennyson's works and, finally, the Arthurian women writers of the twentieth century.

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246

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Springer

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1349244538

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9781349244539

Colonial Downs and More

By: Francis Marion Bush

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Colonial Downs and More

By: Francis Marion Bush

The rich heritage of Virginia horse racing traces its roots back to the colonial days of the late seventeenth century. Horse racing began as single-day events held at county fairs, family farms, and hunt meets, taking a long and meandering path to become the sport we know and love today. Colonial Downs and More examines the important changes that occurred in Virginias horse racing industry during the last half century, with a particular focus on the debates over pari-mutuel wagering. The legalization of pari-mutuel wagering became a hot-button legislative issue in the 1980s, sparked by horse breeders and owners hoping to improve the industry. In 1988, voters approved the legalization of pari-mutuel wagering, a move that opened the doors for the establishment of a new racetrack that would come to be known as Colonial Downs. Colonial Downs faced major obstacles from its inception. Construction was bogged down by licensing delays and legal issues. Nine long years elapsed before it finally opened its gates in 1997. After a modest opening, attendance and wagering slumped over the next three to five years. Nonetheless, despite the difficulties, the track and associated operations remain high quality, offering breeders and owners needed funds and providing racing fans with unparalleled fun and excitement.

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184

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iUniverse

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1462055753

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