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by Claude Andrew Clegg
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Elijah Muhammad (1897-1975) was one of the most significant and controversial black leaders of the twentieth century. His followers called him the Messenger of Allah, while his critics labeled him a teacher of hate. Southern by birth, Muhammad moved north, eventually serving as the influential head...
Ku-Klux
The Birth of the Klan during Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
The first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century Ku Klux Klan since the 1970s, Ku-Klux pinpoints the group's rise with startling acuity. Historians have traced the origins of the Klan to Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866, but the details behind the group's emergence have long remained shadowy....
From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South
Central Georgia, 1800-1880
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Reidy has produced one of the most thoughtful treatments to date of a critical moment in southern history, placing the social transformation of the South in the context of 'the age of capital' and the changes in the markets, ideologies, etc. of the Atlantic world system. Better than anyone perhaps,...
The Double
A Psychoanalytic Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Alive, fresh, and stimulating, the theme of The Double comprises the issues of identity, narcissism, and the fear of death--actually the core of human existence. Rank's book is primarily a study of the double as it appeared in striking examples in German, French, Russian, English, and American literature...
Political Terrain
Washington, D.C., from Tidewater Town to Global Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy once remarked, is a city of "southern efficiency and northern charm." Kennedy's quip was close to the mark. Since its creation two centuries ago, Washington has been a community with multiple personalities. Located on the regional divide between...
Crafting a Continuum
Rethinking Contemporary Craft
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
The Arizona State University Art Museum is renowned for its extensive and notable craft collection and features international acquisitions in wood, ceramic, and fiber. This book, edited by the museum's curators, uses the ASU collection to explore the idea of craft within a critical context, as both...
Mr. Kaiser Goes to Washington
The Rise of a Government Entrepreneur
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In the 1940s, the name Henry J. Kaiser was magic. Based on the success of his shipyards, Kaiser was hailed by the national media as the force behind a 'can-do' production miracle and credited by the American public with doing more to help President Roosevelt win World War II than any other civilian....
Holding Fast the Inner Lines
Democracy, Nationalism, and the Committee on Public Information
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The Committee on Public Information, the major American propaganda agency during World War I, attracted a wide range of reform-oriented men and women who tried to generate enthusiasm for Wilson's international and domestic ideals. Vaughn shows that the CPI encouraged an imperial presidency, urged...
The Land Was Ours
How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal South
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
The coasts of today's American South feature luxury condominiums, resorts, and gated communities, yet just a century ago, a surprising amount of beachfront property in the Chesapeake, along the Carolina shores, and around the Gulf of Mexico was owned and populated by African Americans. Blending social...
Subduing Satan
Religion, Recreation, and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
The Praying South and the Fighting South are two of our most popular images of white southern culture. In Subduing Satan, Ted Ownby details the tensions between these complex--and often opposing--attitudes.
"Ownby's re-creation of male recreation is rich and fascinating. He paints the...
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Pioneer of the Color Line
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The driving force in Chesnutt's life was the wish to help his race. Long before the days of the NAACP, which he later joined, and to the end of his life, he lectured, wrote,and corresponded on the everlasting problem." His letters reveal courage and good sense with which he faced racial discrimination."
Originally...
In the Shadow of Auschwitz
The Polish Government-in-exile and the Jews, 1939-1942
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
The announcement in December 1942 by the Polish government-in-exile that the Germans were attempting to exterminate all Jews in Poland came after much information had reached the West through other sources. The Polish government's action and inaction in releasing the information was the result of...
Black Life on the Mississippi
Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
All along the Mississippi--on country plantation landings, urban levees and quays, and the decks of steamboats--nineteenth-century African Americans worked and fought for their liberty amid the slave trade and the growth of the cotton South. Offering a counternarrative to Twain's well-known tale from...
by George C. Rable
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
During the battle of Gettysburg, as Union troops along Cemetery Ridge rebuffed Pickett's Charge, they were heard to shout, "Give them Fredericksburg!" Their cries reverberated from a clash that, although fought some six months earlier, clearly loomed large in the minds of Civil War soldiers.
Fought...