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Censoring Racial Ridicule
Irish, Jewish, and African American Struggles over Race and Representation, 1890-1930
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
A drunken Irish maid slips and falls. A greedy Jewish pawnbroker lures his female employee into prostitution. An African American man leers at a white woman. These and other, similar images appeared widely on stages and screens across America during the early twentieth century. In this provocative...
Black Culture and the New Deal
The Quest for Civil Rights in the Roosevelt Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
In the 1930s, the Roosevelt administration--unwilling to antagonize a powerful southern congressional bloc--refused to endorse legislation that openly sought to improve political, economic, and social conditions for African Americans. Instead, as historian Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff shows, the administration...
The William R. Ferris Reader, Omnibus E-book
Collected Essays from the Pages of Southern Cultures, 1995-2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2014
Renowned folklorist William R. Ferris has captured the voices of southern musicians, artists, writers, and thinkers for forty years—and we have been proud to publish his work in Southern Cultures for nearly half of that time.
To celebrate Southern Cultures' 20th anniversary, we present our...
No Sweat: Memories of Southern Appalachia
An article from Southern Cultures 17:3, The Memory Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
No Sweat
Memories of Southern Appalachia
by Danny Fulks
When his brother went off to fight, the author was left behind—and his recollections here reveal a wonderful snapshot of wartime Appalachian life.
"Cooney Simms, the grocer, had a big Philco floor-model radio with push buttons...
Stormy Weather
Middle-Class African American Marriages between the Two World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
The so-called New Negroes of the period between World Wars I and II embodied a new sense of racial pride and upward mobility for the race. Many of them thought that relationships between spouses could be a crucial factor in realizing this dream. But there was little agreement about how spousal relationships...
Witness for Freedom
African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2000
Encompassing a broad range of African American voices, from Frederick Douglass to anonymous fugitive slaves, this collection collects eighty-nine exceptional documents that represent the best of the five-volume Black Abolitionist Papers. In these compelling texts African Americans tell their own stories...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
In the spring of 1864, in the vast Virginia scrub forest known as the Wilderness, Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee first met in battle. The Wilderness campaign of May 5-6 initiated an epic confrontation between these two Civil War commanders--one that would finally end, eleven months later, with...
The Harry Pfanz Gettysburg Trilogy, Omnibus E-book
Includes Gettysburg: The First Day; Gettysburg: The Second Day; and Gettysburg: Culp’s Hill and Cemetery Hill
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Available for the first time as an Omnibus Ebook edition, this three-volume set is the acclaimed full account of the three days at Gettysburg, by the noted historian Harry Pfanz.
First Day:
For good reason, the second and third days of the Battle of Gettysburg have received the lion's...
Examining Tuskegee
The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
The forty-year Tuskegee Syphilis Study, which took place in and around Tuskegee, Alabama, from the 1930s through the 1970s, has become a profound metaphor for medical racism, government malfeasance, and physician arrogance. Susan M. Reverby's Examining Tuskegee is a comprehensive analysis of the notorious...
by Mark Thomas Connelly
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
During the opening decades of the twentieth century, highly visible red-light districts occupied entire sections of many American cities. Prostitution, still euphemistically referred to as the "social evil," became one of the dominant social issues of the progressive era.
Mark Thomas...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Union general John Pope was among the most controversial and
misunderstood figures to hold major command during the Civil War.
Before being called east in June 1862 to lead the Army of Virginia against General Robert E. Lee, he compiled an enviable record in Missouri and as commander of the Army of...
Richard Taylor
Soldier Prince of Dixie
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Using widely scattered and previously unknown primary sources, Parrish's biography of Confederate general Richard Taylor presents him as one of the Civil War's most brilliant generals, eliciting strong performances from his troops in the face of manifold obstacles in three theaters of action.
Lee Considered
General Robert E. Lee and Civil War History
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Of all the heroes produced by the Civil War, Robert E. Lee is the most revered and perhaps the most misunderstood. Lee is widely portrayed as an ardent antisecessionist who left the United States Army only because he would not draw his sword against his native Virginia, a Southern aristocrat who opposed...
West Pointers and the Civil War
The Old Army in War and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
Most Civil War generals were graduates of West Point, and many of them helped transform the U.S. Army from what was little better than an armed mob that performed poorly during the War of 1812 into the competent fighting force that won the Mexican War. Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh demonstrates how the "old...