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The Burning House
Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
A startling and gripping reexamination of the Jim Crow era, as seen through the eyes of some of the most important American writers
In this dramatic reexamination of the Jim Crow South, Anders Walker demonstrates that racial segregation fostered not simply terror and violence, but also diversity,...
John Brown Still Lives!
America’s Long Reckoning with Violence, Equality, and Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
From his obsession with the founding principles of the United States to his cold-blooded killings in the battle over slavery's expansion, John Brown forced his countrymen to reckon with America's violent history, its checkered progress toward racial equality, and its resistance to substantive change....
Remixing the Civil War
Meditations on the Sesquicentennial
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
In 1961, the historian and poet Robert Penn Warren remarked that "the Civil War is, for the American imagination, the great single event of our history." This volume reconsiders whether, fifty years later, Warren’s claim still holds true.
Essays from specialists in art, literature,...
Slavery's Ghost
The Problem of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
President Abraham Lincoln freed millions of slaves in the South in 1863, rescuing them, as history tells us, from a brutal and inhuman existence and making the promise of freedom and equal rights. This is a moment to celebrate and honor, to be sure, but what of the darker, more troubling side of this...
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 24: Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
There is no denying that race is a critical issue in understanding the South. However, this concluding volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture challenges previous understandings, revealing the region's rich, ever-expanding diversity and providing new explorations of race relations. In 36...
Water Tossing Boulders
How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
A generation before Brown v. Board of Education struck down America’s “separate but equal” doctrine, one Chinese family and an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for desegregation in one of the greatest legal battles never told.
On September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and her older sister...
Flames after Midnight
Murder, Vengeance, and the Desolation of a Texas Community, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
What happened in Kirven, Texas, in May 1922, has been forgotten by the outside world. It was a coworker's whispered words, "Kirven is where they burned the [Negroes]," that set Monte Akers to work at discovering the true story behind a young white woman's brutal murder and the burning alive...
Negro Orators and Their Orations
With Linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
In reprinting these orations the editor has endeavored to present them here as nearly as possible in their original form. No effort has been made to improve the English. Published in this form, then, these orations will be of value not only to persons studying the development of the Negro in his use...
A Will to Be Free, Vol. I
Up From Slavery; Twelve Years a Slave; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Collected here in this omnibus edition are three influential autobiographies of prominent men whose rose up from slavery to greatness. Essential reading for anyone interested in African American Heritage. Included are Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington, Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup...
Suburban Erasure
How the Suburbs Ended the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
For generations, historians believed that the study of the African-American experience centered on the questions about the processes and consequences of enslavement. Even after this phase passed, the modern Civil Rights Movement took center stage and filled hundreds of pages, creating a new framework...
by Jamie L. Bronstein
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
While examining the arguments made in favor of egalitarianism, this book debunks the notion that the United States is now or has ever been a nation offering equal opportunity to all.
• Exposes the extent to which inequality exists—and has always existed—in the United States
•...
Conflict
Journeys through war and terror in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Nelson Rand is an intrepid adventurer. Despite the warnings and threats against his life, he journeyed into the most dangerous parts of Southeast Asia to witness the plight of the oppressed. He hiked through the jungles of Laos to interview Hmong guerillas, the remnants of the rebel army that refused...
Way Up North in Louisville
African American Migration in the Urban South, 1930-1970
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Luther Adams demonstrates that in the wake of World War II, when roughly half the black population left the South seeking greater opportunity and freedom in the North and West, the same desire often anchored African Americans to the South. Way Up North in Louisville explores the forces that led blacks...
by Magda Hollander-Lafon
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016
Born in Hungary in 1927, Magda Hollander-Lafon was among the 437,000 Jews deported from Hungary between May and July 1944. Magda, her mother, and her younger sister survived a three-day deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; there, she was considered fit for work and so spared, while her mother and sister...