Melissa Walker is the George Dean Johnson Jr. Professor of History at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where she has been the recipient of the O”Herron Award for Faculty Excellence and the Kathryne Amelia Brown Award for Outstanding Teaching. In 2007 she was named the Carnegie Foundation for Teaching/CASE South Carolina Professor of the year. President of the Agricultural History Society and past president of the Southern Association for Women Historians (SAWH), Walker is also the author of Southern Farmers and Their Stories and All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919–1941, winner of the SAWH Willie Lee Rose Prize.
7 Ebooks por Melissa A. Walker
Melissa A. Walker: Battles of Kings Mountain and Cowpens
The American South is so identified with the Civil War that people often forget that the key battles from the final years of the American Revolution were fought in Southern states. The Southern backc …
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Melissa A. Walker: Battles of Kings Mountain and Cowpens
The American South is so identified with the Civil War that people often forget that the key battles from the final years of the American Revolution were fought in Southern states. The Southern backc …
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Melissa A. Walker: Country Women Cope with Hard Times
Rare glimpses into the hardscrabble lives of rural Southern women and a model for oral history practice ‘It was hard times, ‘ French Carpenter Clark recalls, a sentiment unanimously echoed by the six …
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Timothy Paul Grady & Melissa A. Walker: Recovering the Piedmont Past
A window into the social and cultural life of the South Carolina upcountry during the nineteenth century The history of South Carolina’s lowcountry has been well documented by historians, but the upc …
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Timothy Paul Grady & Andrew H. Myers: Recovering the Piedmont Past
An anthology exploring the modernization of the South Carolina upcountry and the region’s role in creating the New South Continuing the theme of unexplored moments introduced in Recovering the Piedmo …
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Giselle Roberts & Melissa A. Walker: Southern Women in the Progressive Era
Riveting, revealing stories from women of all walks of southern life taking on the challenges of the Progressive Era From the 1890s to the end of World War I, the reformers who called themselves prog …
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Tom Moore Craig: Upcountry South Carolina Goes to War
Civil War letters to and from Spartanburg, South Carolina, rich with details on the battlefront and home front Upcountry South Carolina Goes to War chronicles the lives and concerns of the Anderson, …
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