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Daybreak of Freedom
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The Montgomery bus boycott was a formative moment in twentieth-century history: a harbinger of the African American freedom movement, a springboard for the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr., and a crucial step in the struggle to realize the American dream of liberty and equality for all. In Daybreak...
A Failed Empire
The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
In this widely praised book, Vladislav Zubok argues that Western interpretations of the Cold War have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness. Explaining the interests, aspirations, illusions, fears, and misperceptions of the Kremlin leaders and Soviet elites, Zubok...
Notorious in the Neighborhood
Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
Laws and cultural norms militated against interracial sex in Virginia before the Civil War, and yet it was ubiquitous in cities, towns, and plantation communities throughout the state. In Notorious in the Neighborhood, Joshua Rothman examines the full spectrum of interracial sexual relationships under...
Journey of Hope
The Back-to-Africa Movement in Arkansas in the Late 1800s
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Liberia was founded by the American Colonization Society (ACS) in the 1820s as an African refuge for free blacks and liberated American slaves. While interest in African migration waned after the Civil War, it roared back in the late nineteenth century with the rise of Jim Crow segregation and disfranchisement...
Party Games
Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Much of late-nineteenth-century American politics was parade and pageant. Voters crowded the polls, and their votes made a real difference on policy. In Party Games, Mark Wahlgren Summers tells the full story and admires much of the political carnival, but he adds a cautionary note about the dark...
A New South Rebellion
The Battle against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871-1896
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In 1891, thousands of Tennessee miners rose up against the use of convict labor by the state's coal companies, eventually engulfing five mountain communities in a rebellion against government authority. Propelled by the insurgent sensibilities of Populism and Gilded Age unionism, the miners initially...
Martin R. Delany
A Documentary Reader
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
Martin R. Delany (1812-85) has been called the "Father of Black Nationalism," but his extraordinary career also encompassed the roles of abolitionist, physician, editor, explorer, politician, army officer, novelist, and political theorist. Despite his enormous influence in the nineteenth...
The Legend of the Black Mecca
Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
For more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and music, earning it the nickname "the black Mecca." Atlanta's long tradition of black education dates back to Reconstruction, and produced an elite that flourished...
A Union Indivisible
Secession and the Politics of Slavery in the Border South
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Many accounts of the secession crisis overlook the sharp political conflict that took place in the Border South states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri. Michael D. Robinson expands the scope of this crisis to show how the fate of the Border South, and with it the Union, desperately hung...
Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery
The Other Thirteenth Amendment and the Struggle to Save the Union
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
In this landmark book, Daniel Crofts examines a little-known episode in the most celebrated aspect of Abraham Lincoln's life: his role as the "Great Emancipator." Lincoln always hated slavery, but he also believed it to be legal where it already existed, and he never imagined fighting a...
Insurgent Cuba
Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
In the late nineteenth century, in an age of ascendant racism and imperial expansion, there emerged in Cuba a movement that unified black, mulatto, and white men in an attack on Europe's oldest empire, with the goal of creating a nation explicitly defined as antiracist. This book tells the story of...
by Thomas Rath
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
At the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1920, Mexico's large, rebellious army dominated national politics. By the 1940s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was led by a civilian president and claimed to have depoliticized the army and achieved the bloodless pacification of the Mexican...
by Sherry Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
From 1750 to 1800, a critical period that saw the American Revolution, French Revolution, and Haitian Revolution, the Atlantic world experienced a series of environmental crises, including more frequent and severe hurricanes and extended drought. Drawing on historical climatology, environmental history,...
Living for the City
Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
In this nuanced and groundbreaking history, Donna Murch argues that the Black Panther Party (BPP) started with a study group. Drawing on oral history and untapped archival sources, she explains how a relatively small city with a recent history of African American settlement produced such compelling...