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The Voting Rights War
The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
The Voting Rights War tells the story of the courageous struggle to achieve voting equality through more than one hundred years of work by the NAACP at the Supreme Court. Readers take the journey for voting rights from slavery to the Plessy v. Ferguson case that legalized segregation in 1896 through...
by Neil A. Wynn, Jacqueline M. Moore, Nina Mjagkij
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
Drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and research, Neil A. Wynn combines narrative history and primary sources as he locates the World War II years within the long-term struggle for African Americans' equal rights. It is now widely accepted that these years were crucial in the development...
A Long Dark Night
Race in America from Jim Crow to World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
For a brief time following the end of the U.S. Civil War, American political leaders had an opportunity—slim, to be sure, but not beyond the realm of possibility—to remake society so that black Americans and other persons of color could enjoy equal opportunity in civil and political life. It was...
Justices, Presidents, and Senators
A History of the U.S. Supreme Court Appointments from Washington to Bush II
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2007
Revised to include the last eight years of Supreme Court decisions and nominations, this updated classic is the most comprehensive and accessible history of the first 110 members of the U.S. Supreme Court ever written. Henry J. Abraham, one of the nation's preeminent scholars of the judicial branch,...
by Todd Leahy, Nathan Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Native Americans in the United States, similar to other indigenous people, created political, economic, and social movements to meet and adjust to major changes that impacted their cultures. For centuries, Native Americans dealt with the onslaught of non-Indian land claims, the appropriation of their...
by Mitchell Snay
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Horace Greeley (1811–1872) was a major figure in nineteenth century American history. As a newspaper editor, politician, and reformer, Greeley was involved with the major events and trends of the era. He was the influential editor of the New York Tribune from 1841 until his death and was instrumental...
My Stripes Were Earned in Hell
A French Resistance Fighter's Memoir of Survival in a Nazi Prison Camp
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
This remarkable memoir tells the story of Jean-Pierre Renouard, a gentile, in Germany's Nazi prison camps. In this spare, compelling narrative of a year during which he and the world he knew descended into hell, he recounts his battle to survive—physically, emotionally, and morally. In May 1944,...
Russia's Carnival
The Smells, Sights, and Sounds of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2002
This colorfully drawn and acutely observed book explores Russia by engaging all our senses. Today's Russia smells different from the Soviet Union. The country looks and sounds different, its touch is different and its food tastes different. Thus, Christoph Neidhart argues, Russia is truly a changed...
Choosing Sides
Loyalists in Revolutionary America
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Though scores of texts, films and stories have been told about the American Revolution from the perspectives of our Founding Fathers and their followers, comparatively little is known about those colonists who resisted the revolutionary movement, and tried desperately to preserve their nation’s...
A Great and Good Man
George Washington in the Eyes of His Contemporaries
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2007
A Great and Good Man presents a lively collection of contemporary letters, poems, addresses, and newspaper reports that demonstrate the remarkable esteem in which Washington was held. Washington would become, after his death, a true symbol of the American republic. This selection of materials, many...
by John M. Riddle, Winston Black
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
This clear and comprehensive text covers the Middle Ages from the classical era to the late medieval period. Distinguished historian John Riddle provides a cogent analysis of the rulers, wars, and events—both natural and human—that defined the medieval era. Taking a broad geographical perspective,...
Enjoy the Same Liberty
Black Americans and the Revolutionary Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
In this cohesive narrative, Edward Countryman explores the American Revolution in the context of the African American experience, asking a question that blacks have raised since the Revolution: What does the revolutionary promise of freedom and democracy mean for African Americans? Countryman, a Bancroft...
by Carl J. Richard
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
The religious beliefs of America’s founding fathers have been a popular and contentious subject for recent generations of American readers. In The Founders and the Bible, historian Carl J. Richard carefully examines the framers’ relationship with the Bible to assess the conflicting claims of those...
Era of Persuasion
American Thought and Culture, 1521–1680
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2004
Pre-eighteenth century America was a uniquely pragmatic, utopian society—a new world in which the expectations of a new beginning brought by explorers, traders, and settlers often conflicted violently the Native Americans they encountered. In Era of Persuasion: American Thought and Culture 1521–1680,...