Jacqueline M Moore: 13 books
Cow Boys and Cattle Men
Class and Masculinities on the Texas Frontier, 1865-1900
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Cowboys are an American legend, but despite ubiquity in history and popular culture, misperceptions abound. Technically, a cowboy worked with cattle, as a ranch hand, while his boss, the cattleman, owned the ranch. Jacqueline M. Moore casts aside romantic and one-dimensional images of cowboys by analyzing...
Between Slavery and Freedom
Free People of Color in America From Settlement to the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
In Between Slavery and Freedom, Julie Winch explores the complex world of those people of African birth or descent who occupied the “borderlands” between slavery and freedom in the 350 years from the founding of the first European colonies in what is today the United States to the start of the...
Paying Freedom's Price
A History of African Americans in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Paying Freedom's Price provides a comprehensive yet brief and readable history of the role of African Americans—both slave and free—from the decade leading up to the Civil War until its immediate aftermath. Rather than focusing on black military service, the white-led abolitionist movement, or...
by Neil A. Wynn, Jacqueline M. Moore, Nina Mjagkij
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
Drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and research, Neil A. Wynn combines narrative history and primary sources as he locates the World War II years within the long-term struggle for African Americans' equal rights. It is now widely accepted that these years were crucial in the development...
Enjoy the Same Liberty
Black Americans and the Revolutionary Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
In this cohesive narrative, Edward Countryman explores the American Revolution in the context of the African American experience, asking a question that blacks have raised since the Revolution: What does the revolutionary promise of freedom and democracy mean for African Americans? Countryman, a Bancroft...
A. Philip Randolph
A Life in the Vanguard
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2006
Before the emergence of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., there were several key leaders who fought for civil rights in the United States. Among them was A. Philip Randolph, who perhaps best embodied the hopes, ideals, and aspirations of black Americans. Born in the South at the start of the Jim Crow...
Loyalty in Time of Trial
The African American Experience During World War I
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Nearly 370,000 black soldiers served in the military during World War I, and some 400,000 black civilians migrated from the rural South to the urban North for defense jobs. Following the war, emboldened by their military service and their support of the war on the home front, African Americans were...
The African American Experience in Vietnam
Brothers in Arms
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
In this book James E. Westheider explores the social and professional paradoxes facing African-American soldiers in Vietnam. Service in the military started as a demonstration of the merits of integration as blacks competed with whites on a near equal basis for the first time. Military service, especially...
Through the Storm, Through the Night
A History of African American Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
Paul Harvey illustrates how black Christian traditions provided theological, institutional, and personal strategies for cultural survival during bondage and into an era of partial freedom. At the same time, he covers the ongoing tug-of-war between themes of "respectability" versus practices...
by Betty Wood, Jacqueline M. Moore, Nina Mjagkij
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2005
Slavery in Colonial America, 1619–1776 brings together original sources and recent scholarship to trace the origins and development of African slavery in the American colonies. Distinguished scholar Betty Wood clearly explains the evolution of the transatlantic slave trade and compares the regional...
More Than a Game
A History of the African American Experience in Sport
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African American community, and the United States more generally. Recognizing the complicated history of race in America and how sport can both divide and bring...
Caring for Equality
A History of African American Health and Healthcare
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
African Americans today continue to suffer disproportionately from heart disease, diabetes, and other health problems. In Caring for Equality David McBride chronicles the struggle by African Americans and their white allies to improve poor black health conditions as well as inadequate medical care—caused...
Not Just Good, but Beautiful
The Complementary Relationship between Man and Woman
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
In an unprecedented interreligious conference in November 2014, Pope Francis and four hundred religious leaders and scholars from around the world met in Rome to explore what their diverse faiths teach about marriage and “the complementarity of man and woman.”
This book contains the most...