ebooks Religious Separation and Political Intolerance in Bosnia-Herzegovina (Eugenia Hugh M. Stewart '26 Series on Eastern Europe) by Mitja Velikonja in History

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The theft of a gold pocket watch that had once belonged to her grandmother led Virginia Foote into a search to recover Amorette Foote's life story. In doing so; Virginia discovered a parallel between her grandmother's life and her own. Both of them came of age in time of war. For Amorette; the Civil War; for Virginia; World War II. But Amorette was more directly affected by war than Virginia ever was; for Amorette's husband Seth died of a wound he received at the Battle of Missionary Ridge. Widowed at the age of twenty-four; Amorette raised her son alone. Then; after he had established himself as a physician; she embarked on a professional career of her own. At the age of forty-nine she took a job as matron at the Chicago Training School; which prepared women to be Christian missionaries. From there she went to a similar position at Talladega College; where almost all the students were African-American. Her last two positions were in southern California. Amorette's story touches on important themes: hard economic times; the unfortunate consequences of debt; the losses brought about by war; the treatment of wounded soldiers; social reform movements headed by women; and evidence of racial and religious prejudice in institutions founded on high moral principles.