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Chocolate City
A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America's expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national...
Barack Obama's America
How New Conceptions of Race, Family, and Religion Ended the Reagan Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
"White's Barack Obama's America eloquently captures both the important nuances of the current political scene and its long-term consequences."
---Richard Wirthlin, former pollster for Ronald Reagan
"This delightfully written and accessible book is the best available account of...
by James Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
"A rich and compelling narrative, as taut and suspenseful as good fiction. In places, Stories of Scottsboro is almost heartbreaking, not least because Goodman shows what people felt as well as what they thought." -- Washington Post Book World
To white Southerners, it was "a heinous...
Sailors and Sexual Identity
Crossing the Line Between "Straight" and "Gay" in the U.S. Navy
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
In Sailors and Sexual Identity, author Steven Zeeland talks with young male sailors--both gay- and straight-identified--about ways in which their social and sexual lives have been shaped by their Navy careers.
Despite massive media attention to the issue, there remains a gross disparity between...
Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich
Vote Buying and the Corruption of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
A timely and nonpartisan book on voter manipulation and electoral corruption—and the importance of stimulating voter turnout and participation
Though voting rights are fundamental to American democracy, felon disfranchisement, voter identification laws, and hard-to-access polling locations...
by Cynthia Mestad Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Over thirty thousand slaves were brought to the shores of colonial America on ships owned and captained by James DeWolf. When the United States took action to abolish slavery, this Bristol native manipulated the legal system and became actively involved in Rhode Island politics in order to pursue his...
by Leonard L. Richards
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2007
Award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that was to come.
When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, Americans of all stripes saw the potential for both wealth and power. Among the...
Forever Free
The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
From one of our most distinguished historians, a new examination of the vitally important years of Emancipation and Reconstruction during and immediately following the Civil War–a necessary reconsideration that emphasizes the era’s political and cultural meaning for today’s America.
In...
Selma’s Bloody Sunday
Protest, Voting Rights, and the Struggle for Racial Equality
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
On Sunday afternoon, March 7, 1965, roughly six hundred peaceful demonstrators set out from Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in a double-file column to march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. Leading the march were Hosea Williams of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and...
The Heavens Might Crack
The Death and Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
A vivid portrait of how Americans grappled with King's death and legacy in the days, weeks, and months after his assassination
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. At the time of his murder, King was a polarizing...
by Michael K. Honey
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
“This is a dangerous book.”—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams
Fifty years ago, a single bullet robbed us of one of the world’s most eloquent voices for human rights and justice. To the Promised Land goes beyond the iconic view of Martin Luther King, Jr., as an advocate of...
by Howard Zinn
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Howard Zinn on Race is Zinn’s choice of the shorter writings and speeches that best reflect his views on America’s most taboo topic. As chairman of the history department at all black women’s Spelman College, Zinn was an outspoken supporter of student activists in the nascent civil rights movement....
The First Twenty-Five
An Oral History of the Desegregation of Little Rock’s Public Junior High Schools
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
“It was one of those periods that you got through, as opposed to enjoyed. It wasn’t an environment that . . . was nurturing, so you shut it out. You just got through it. You just took it a day at a time. You excelled if you could. You did your best. You felt as though the eyes of the community...
Dare We Hope?
Facing our past to find a new future
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
'It is a gruesome tale - how we have moved so rapidly from the era of hope to the bleak landscape ushered in by Zuma's ascent to power ...' Yet Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, acclaimed author and international expert on reconciliation, wants to rekindle our hope. As a clinical psychologist who has worked...