1802–1835
in Lessons in Likeness
October 2010; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: social and cultural history. 16468 words.
This chapter starts by presenting the reports of early artists and itinerant activity. John James Audubon observed wildlife and painted portraits in Kentucky. He was a naturalist artist and first...
1835–1865
in Lessons in Likeness
October 2010; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: social and cultural history. 10664 words.
This chapter begins by addressing the itinerant painters, headless bodies, and plain painters. Several types of itinerant artists can be identified in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley by the trails...
1865–1920
in Lessons in Likeness
October 2010; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: social and cultural history. 12733 words.
This chapter begins by showing a New England expatriate and a Confederate penitent that address the newly freed slaves. It also explains the fair years in Louisville. It discusses R. J. Menefee's...
῾A᾽ isha (c. 614–678)
in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History
January 2008; published online January 2008.
Reference Entry. Subjects: social and cultural history. 597 words.
(c. 614–678),
the third and most controversial wife of the prophet Muhammad. ῾A᾽isha bint Abi Bakr lived
“A Blessing upon Our Labors”: Women's Benevolent Societies and Poor Relief
in Women, Culture, and Community
December 1997; published online October 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: social and cultural history. 14677 words.
This chapter discusses the women who joined benevolent societies and how they acted and moved among the suffering and the destitute. The women never lost their patronizing air, nor did they openly...
‘A Car or a Wife?’ The Northern European Marriage System and the Sexual Revolution
in The Long Sexual Revolution
July 2005; published online January 2008.
Chapter. Subjects: social and cultural history. 7442 words.
This chapter re-analyses existing statistical sources to explain the underlying transformation and disruption of existing ways of living that occurred as a result of the astonishing reduction in risk...
‘A common language of the spirit’: cultural awakenings and national belongings
in Empire and Nation-Building in the Caribbean
August 2010; published online July 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: colonialism and imperialism. 11752 words.
This chapter focuses on the various cultural activities in colonial Barbados and the role played by them in forging a West Indian identity. Various societies such as Dan Blackett's Social Physical...
‘A haven of safety’: refugees and the Manchester Women's Lodge of B’nai Brith
in Jews and Other Foreigners
September 2011; published online July 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: social and cultural history. 4651 words.
A revival of interest in refugees within the Manchester B'nai Brith Women's Lodge, following the collapse of its Hospitality Committee in 1935, was apparently sparked off by the same chain of...
“A jaunt … agreeable and instructive”: The Vacationer as Tourist
in Working at Play
May 2001; published online October 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: social and cultural history. 12836 words.
The history of tourism cannot be entirely subsumed within the history of vacations. Some people became tourists without being on vacation at all; business travelers, for example, who “did” the sights...
‘A large capital and great arrangements’: P&O to 18401
in Flagships of Imperialism
July 2006; published online July 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: colonialism and imperialism. 23904 words.
This chapter discusses the various factors that led to the formation of P&O. The contribution of two Irish shipowners and businessmen, Richard Bourne and Charles Wye Williams, who merged their...