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Thunder of Freedom
Black Leadership and the Transformation of 1960s Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
The world's eyes were on Mississippi during the summer of 1964, when civil rights activists launched an ambitious African American voter registration project and were met with violent resistance from white supremacists. Sue Sojourner and her husband arrived in Holmes County, Mississippi, in the wake...
Why We Fought
America's Wars in Film and History
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2008
Film moves audiences like no other medium; both documentaries and feature films are especially remarkable for their ability to influence viewers. Best-selling author James Brady remarked that he joined the Marines to fight in Korea after seeing a John Wayne film, demonstrating how a motion picture...
Adorno and Democracy
The American Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
German philosopher and social critic Theodor Adorno (1903--1969) is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. A leading member of the Frankfurt School, Adorno advanced an unconventional type of Marxist analysis in books such as Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944),...
A Tour of Reconstruction
Travel Letters of 1875
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Anna Dickinson's career as an orator began in her teenage years, when she gave her first impassioned speech on women's rights. By the age of twenty-one, she was spending at least six months per year on the road, delivering lectures on abolitionism, politics, and public affairs, and establishing herself...
Reconstructing American Historical Cinema
From Cimarron to Citizen Kane
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2006
In Reconstructing American Historical Cinema: From Cimarron to Citizen Kane, J. E. Smyth dramatically departs from the traditional understanding of the relationship between film and history. By looking at production records, scripts, and contemporary reviews, Smyth argues that certain classical Hollywood...
Founding Visions
The Ideas, Individuals, and Intersections that Created America
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Lance Banning was one of the most distinguished historians of his generation. His first book, The Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party Ideology, was a groundbreaking study of the ideas and principles that influenced political conflict in the early American Republic. His revisionist masterpiece,...
Grounded
The Case for Abolishing the United States Air Force
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
The United States needs airpower, but does it need an air force? In Grounded, Robert M. Farley persuasively argues that America should end the independence of the United States Air Force (USAF) and divide its assets and missions between the United States Army and the United States Navy.
In...
For Jobs and Freedom
Race and Labor in America since 1865
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Whether as slaves or freedmen, the political and social status of African Americans has always been tied to their ability to participate in the nation's economy. Freedom in the post--Civil War years did not guarantee equality, and African Americans from emancipation to the present have faced the seemingly...
De Bow's Review
The Antebellum Vision of a New South
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
In the decades preceding the Civil War, the South struggled against widespread negative characterizations of its economy and society as it worked to match the North's infrastructure and level of development. Recognizing the need for regional reform, James Dunwoody Brownson (J. D. B.) De Bow began...
by Edward L. Dreyer, David C. Wright, Peter Lorge
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Gaining an understanding of China's long and sometimes bloody history can help to shed light on China's ascent to global power. Many of China's imperial dynasties were established as the result of battle, from the chariot warfare of ancient times to the battles of the Guomindang (KMT) and Communist...
by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Kate Merkel-Hess, Sorpong Peou
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
The world was watching when footage of the "tank man" -- the lone Chinese citizen blocking the passage of a column of tanks during the brutal 1989 crackdown on protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square -- first appeared in the media. The furtive video is now regarded as an iconic depiction...
Berlin on the Brink
The Blockade, the Airlift, and the Early Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
The Berlin blockade brought former allies to the brink of war. Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union defeated and began their occupation of Germany in 1945, and within a few years, the Soviets and their Western partners were jockeying for control of their former foe. Attempting to...
by James Still
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Celebrated as the "Dean of Appalachian Literature," James Still has won the appreciation of audiences in Appalachia and beyond for more than seventy years. The author of the classics River of Earth (1940) and The Wolfpen Poems (1986), Still is known for his careful prose construction and...
Contemporary Public Health
Principles, Practice, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Public health refers to the management and prevention of disease within a population by promoting healthy behaviors and environments in an effort to create a higher standard of living. In this comprehensive volume, editor James W. Holsinger Jr. and an esteemed group of scholars and practitioners offer...