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by O. David Gold
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
This is the only modern, published account of the Soldier’s Orphan Schools of Pennsylvania. A bureaucrat of the system wrote a so-called history in 1873 but it is very self-serving and devoid of any critical analysis. Also included, a bonus feature on the Ill-Fated Gettsyburg Orphanage.
The...
Bearing the Cross
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: The definitive biography of Martin Luther King Jr.
In this monumental account of the life of Martin Luther King Jr., professor and historian David Garrow traces King’s evolution from young pastor who spearheaded the 1955–56 bus boycott of Montgomery, Alabama,...
Bryan Prince's Underground Railroad 2-Book Bundle
My Brother's Keeper / One More River to Cross
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Award-winning author Bryan Prince portrays the experiences of slaves and former slaves in these compelling histories of the Underground Railroad and American Civil War. This special two-book collection includes:
My Brother’s Keeper: African Canadians and the American Civil War
The stirring...
Throes of Democracy
The American Civil War Era, 1829-1877
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
"And then there came a day of fire!" From its shocking curtain-raiser—the conflagration that consumed Lower Manhattan in 1835—to the climactic centennial year of 1876, when Americans staged a corrupt, deadlocked presidential campaign (fought out in Florida), Walter A. McDougall's Throes...
Blood and Daring
How Canada Fought the American Civil War and Forged a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Blood and Daring will change our views not just of Canada's relationship with the United States, but of the Civil War, Confederation and Canada itself.
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In Blood and Daring, lauded historian John Boyko makes a compelling argument that Confederation occurred when and as it did largely because...
Memphis 68
The Tragedy of Southern Soul
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
WINNER OF THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 2018In the 1950s and 1960s, Memphis, Tennessee, was the launch pad of musical pioneers such as Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Al Green and Isaac Hayes, and by 1968 was a city synonymous with soul music. It was a deeply segregated city, ill at ease...
Radio Free Dixie
Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
This book tells the remarkable story of Robert F. Williams--one of the most influential black activists of the generation that toppled Jim Crow and forever altered the arc of American history. In the late 1950s, as president of the Monroe, North Carolina, branch of the NAACP, Williams and his followers...
Founders' Son
A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Abraham Lincoln grew up in the long shadow of the Founding Fathers. Seeking an intellectual and emotional replacement for his own taciturn father, Lincoln turned to the great men of the founding-Washington, Paine, Jefferson-and their great documents-the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution-for...
Gettysburg
The Turning Point in the Struggle between North and South
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In June 1863, General Robert E. Lee and the 75,000-strong Army of Northern Virginia launched a second invasion of the North, crossing into Maryland and Pennsylvania to try to win a decisive victory over Federal forces. On July 1, Lees army encountered Major General Meades 90,000 strong Army of the Potamac...
by Marie A. Sutton
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Traveling throughout the South during the 1950s was hazardous for African Americans. There were precious few hotels and restaurants that opened their doors to minorities, and fewer still had accommodations above the bare minimum, to say nothing of the racism and violence that followed. But in Birmingham,...
by Jeanne Theoharis
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
**2014 NAACP Image Award Winner: Outstanding Literary Work – Biography / Auto Biography
2013 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians
Choice Top 25 Academic Titles for 2013
The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades...
by Jeanne Theoharis
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
**2014 NAACP Image Award Winner: Outstanding Literary Work – Biography / Auto Biography
2013 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians
Choice Top 25 Academic Titles for 2013
The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades...
The Color of Work
The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Histories of the civil rights movement have generally overlooked the battle to integrate the South's major industries. The paper industry, which has played an important role in the southern economy since the 1930s, has been particularly neglected. Using previously untapped legal records and oral history...
Memoranda During the War
Civil War Journals, 1863-1865
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
These reflections by one of America's greatest poets on the nation's most momentous struggle began when Walt Whitman discovered his brother's name in a newspaper list of Union Army casualties. The poet hurried from his Brooklyn home to a Virginia battlefront, where he found his brother, wounded but...