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by William Marvel
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Although Appomattox Court House is one of the most symbolically charged places in America, it was an ordinary tobacco-growing village both before and after an accident of fate brought the armies of Lee and Grant together there. It is that Appomattox--the typical small Confederate community--that William...
Growing Up Jim Crow
How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2006
In the segregated South of the early twentieth century, unwritten rules guided every aspect of individual behavior, from how blacks and whites stood, sat, ate, drank, walked, and talked to whether they made eye contact with one another. Jennifer Ritterhouse asks how children learned this racial "etiquette,"...
Confronting Captivity
Britain and the United States and Their POWs in Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
How was it possible that almost all of the nearly 300,000 British and American troops who fell into German hands during World War II survived captivity in German POW camps and returned home almost as soon as the war ended? In Confronting Captivity, Arieh J. Kochavi offers a behind-the-scenes look...
Pursuit of Unity
A Political History of the American South
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In Pursuit of Unity, Michael Perman presents a comprehensive analysis of the South's political history. In the 1800s, the region endured almost continuous political crisis--nullification, secession, Reconstruction, the Populist revolt, and disfranchisement. For most of the twentieth century, the region...
Back Channel to Cuba
The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
History is being made in U.S.-Cuban relations. Now in paperback and updated to tell the real story behind the stunning December 17, 2014, announcement by President Obama and President Castro of their move to restore full diplomatic relations, this powerful book is essential to understanding ongoing...
From South Texas to the Nation
The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
In the early years of the twentieth century, newcomer farmers and migrant Mexicans forged a new world in South Texas. In just a decade, this vast region, previously considered too isolated and desolate for large-scale agriculture, became one of the United States' most lucrative farming regions and...
Blue Texas
The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
This book is about the other Texas, not the state known for its cowboy conservatism, but a mid-twentieth-century hotbed of community organizing, liberal politics, and civil rights activism. Beginning in the 1930s, Max Krochmal tells the story of the decades-long struggle for democracy in Texas, when...
Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ
The Renewal of Evangelicalism in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Founded as a local college ministry in 1951, Campus Crusade for Christ has become one of the world's largest evangelical organizations, today boasting an annual budget of more than $500 million. Nondenominational organizations like Campus Crusade account for much of modern evangelicalism's dynamism...
Black Slaves, Indian Masters
Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory. The tribes formulated racial and gender ideologies...
by Melvyn Dubofsky
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In this important new book, Melvyn Dubofsky traces the relationship between the American labor movement and the federal government from the 1870s until the present. His is the only book to focus specifically on the 'labor question' as a lens through which to view more clearly the basic political,...
by Brantley W. Gasaway
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
In this compelling history of progressive evangelicalism, Brantley Gasaway examines a dynamic though often overlooked movement within American Christianity today. Gasaway focuses on left-leaning groups, such as Sojourners and Evangelicals for Social Action, that emerged in the early 1970s, prior to...
In Love and Struggle
The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
James Boggs (1919-1993) and Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) were two largely unsung but critically important figures in the black freedom struggle. Born and raised in Alabama, James Boggs came to Detroit during the Great Migration, becoming an automobile worker and a union activist. Grace Lee was a Chinese...
by Edward P. Crapol
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
The first vice president to become president on the death of the incumbent, John Tyler (1790-1862) was derided by critics as "His Accidency." In this biography of the tenth president, Edward P. Crapol challenges depictions of Tyler as a die-hard advocate of states' rights, limited government,...
The Chesapeake House
Architectural Investigation by Colonial Williamsburg
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
For more than thirty years, the architectural research department at Colonial Williamsburg has engaged in comprehensive study of early buildings, landscapes, and social history in the Chesapeake region. Its painstaking work has transformed our understanding of building practices in the colonial and...