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Standards Matter
The Why and What of Common Core State Standards in Reading and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
While critics rail against Common Core State Standards for national school learning guides, few know exactly what these Standards are, and fewer can assess if these Standards are a positive step for education. Standards are simply the high-level literacy skills and understandings that have been traditionally...
Honeysuckle Creek
The Story of Tom Reid, a Little Dish and Neil Armstrong's First Step
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Honeysuckle Creek reveals the pivotal role that the tracking station at Honeysuckle Creek, near Canberra, played in the first moon landing. Andrew Tink gives a gripping account of the role of its director Tom Reid and his colleagues in transmitting some of the most-watched images in human history...
Storming the State House
The Campaign That Liberated Alabama from 136 Years of Democrat Rule
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Storming the State House provides a revealing, behind-the-scenes look into the campaign that elected Alabama’s first Republican legislature in modern history and liberated the state from 136 years of Democrat Party rule. Written by Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard, it is a battlefield account by...
Better Than Them
The Unmaking of an Alabama Racist
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
"You are better than them. Don't forget it," a grandmother whispers to her grandson, S. M. "Mac" Otts. The year is 1965, and an eighteen-year-old boy stands curbside in his Black Belt hometown—weapon in hand—defiant before a peaceful civil rights demonstration. Violent pandemonium...
Bitter Harvest
Richmond Flowers and the Civil Rights Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Bitter Harvest traces the development of Richmond Flowers, a color politician who began his career as a segregationist but who, as Attorney General of Alabama, fought bitterly against Governor George Wallace in trying to support the Constitution. In the process, he sacrificed his political career....
Bus Ride to Justice (Revised Edition)
Changing the System by the System, the Life and Works of Fred Gray
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
First published in 1995, Bus Ride to Justice, the best-selling autobiography by acclaimed civil rights attorney Fred D. Gray, appears now in a newly revised edition that updates Gray’s remarkable career of “destroying everything segregated that I could find.” Of particular interest will be the...
The Books That Mattered
A Reader’s Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Frye Gaillard’s first encounters with books were disappointing. As a child he never cared much for fairy tales – “stories of cannibalism and mayhem in which giants and witches, tigers and wolves did their best to eat small children.” But at the age of nine, he discovered Johnny Tremain, a...
by John Pritchard
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Junior Ray Loveblood, one of the most outrageous and original personalities to appear in American literature in many years, returns in The Yazoo Blues, the sequel to John Pritchard’s Junior Ray. Now semi-retired, Loveblood works as a security guard in one of the floating casinos that have replaced...
Emigration to Liberia
From the Chattahoochee Valley of Georgia and Alabama, 1853-1903
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Between 1853 and 1903, some 500 African Americans left the Chattahoochee Valley of Georgia and Alabama to start new lives in the West African Republic of Liberia. Most of the emigrants departed for Liberia during the uncertainty of the post-Civil War years of 1867 and 1868. Most sought safety and...
Life and Death Matters
Seeking the Truth About Capital Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Dr. Robert Baldwin would be the first to tell you that he used to be an average white Southern male; a family man with conservative ideals and a growing medical practice, he was living out his life without too much introspection. In 1997, however, Baldwin was diagnosed with the auto-immune disease,...
by Dr. Ibrahim Fawal
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
In this sequel to Ibrahim Fawal's critically acclaimed On the Hills of God (winner of the PEN Oakland Award), the young Palestinian Yousif Safi searches throughout Jordan for Salwa, his bride, from whom he was separated during their forced exodus after the catastrophe (Nakba) of 1948. Amidst the squalor...
A Hard Rain
America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Frye Gaillard has given us a deeply personal history, bringing his keen storyteller’s eye to this pivotal time in American life. He explores the competing story arcs of tragedy and hope through the political and social movements of the times — civil rights, black power, women’s liberation, the...
by William Heath
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Winner of the Hackney Literary Award and selected in 2002 by Time as one of the eleven best novels on the African American experience, The Children Bob Moses Led is a compelling, powerful chronicle of the events of Freedom Summer. The novel is narrated in alternating sections by Tom Morton, a white...
by Gerald Duff
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The 1920s literary magazine The Fugitive transformed Vanderbilt University into the home of New Criticism, spearheaded by a group of young poets. In Fugitive Days, author and professor Gerald Duff recalls meeting the poets, now older and accomplished, including Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom,...