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Sitting in Darkness Sitting in Darkness Peter Schmidt Sitting in Darkness explores how fiction of the Reconstruction and the New South intervenes in debates over black schools, citizen-building, Jim Crow discrimination, and U.S. foreign policy towards i… OL1452983W
There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster Chester Hartman There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster is the first critical scholarly book on the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. The disaster will go down in record as one of the wor… OL15178580W
Fight against fear Fight against fear Clive Webb "In the uneasily shared history of Jews and blacks in America, the struggle for civil rights in the South may be the least understood episode. Fight against Fear is the first book to focus on Jews an… OL15326841W
Redemption Redemption Nicholas Lemann A century after Appomattox, the civil rights movement won full citizenship for black Americans in the South. It should not have been necessary: by 1870 those rights were set in the Constitution. Jour… OL15839444W
Lincoln and the triumph of the nation Lincoln and the triumph of the nation Mark E. Neely "The Civil War placed the U.S. Constitution under unprecedented--and, to this day, still unmatched--strain. In Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Mark Neely exami… OL16262907W
Women writers and journalists in the nineteenth-century south Women writers and journalists in the nineteenth-century south Jonathan Daniel Wells "The first study to focus on white and black women journalists and writers both before and after the Civil War, this book offers fresh insight into southern intellectual life, the fight for women's r… OL16298220W
Southern Journeys Southern Journeys Richard Starnes Examines tourism as a complicated and vital force in southern United States history, culture and economics. OL182186W
Southern Local Color Southern Local Color Barbara C. Ewell,Mark Twain,George Washington Cable,Joel Chandler Harris,Kate Chopin,Pamela Glenn Menke Conflict, exoticism, sensuality, eccentricity, and the sheer differences of the American South pervade this lively anthology, the first in fifty years to focus exclusively on the nineteenth-century t… OL19534366W
Interest group politics in the southern states Interest group politics in the southern states Ronald J. Hrebenar,Clive S. Thomas This is the first volume comprehensively to explore the dynamics of political interest groups in the twelve southern states - the types of group, lobbyists and lobbying tactics, state regulation of l… OL20629471W
Carver, a Life in Poems Carver, a Life in Poems Marilyn Nelson George Washington Carver was born a slave in Missouri about 1864 and was raised by the childless white couple who had owned his mother. In 1877 he left home in search of an education, eventually earn… OL2641346W
Lonely Hunters Lonely Hunters James T. Sears This is the story of Southern gays and lesbians in the twenty-year span between the end of World War II and the Stonewall Riot that sparked widespread gay rights consciousness. Across the United Stat… OL2674836W
Gone With the Wind Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell Margaret Mitchell's monumental epic of the South won a Pulitzer Prize, gave rise to the most popular motion picture of our time, and inspired a sequel that became the fastest selling novel of the cen… OL267933W
"Mixed blood" Indians "Mixed blood" Indians Theda Perdue "On the southern frontier in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, European men - including traders, soldiers, and government agents - sometimes married Native women. Children of these union… OL2702839W
The death of Reconstruction The death of Reconstruction Heather Cox Richardson "Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on the South and on white Americans' persistent racism. Heather Cox Richardson argues instead that class, along with race, was crit… OL3348608W
The Far Western frontier, 1830-1860 The Far Western frontier, 1830-1860 Ray Allen Billington This history presents a pageant of westward exploration, military conquest, commercial penetration, exploitation and settlement. It also considers the various types of frontiersmen, fur trappers, mis… OL3577028W
Fugitive slaves and the Underground Railroad in the Kentucky borderland Fugitive slaves and the Underground Railroad in the Kentucky borderland J. Blaine Hudson "The book examines not only the landscape but the motivations and escape strategies of the fugitive and the risks involved. The reasons why people broke law and convention to befriend fugitive slaves… OL3863454W
Up before daybreak Up before daybreak Deborah Hopkinson In this stunning nonfiction volume, award-winning author Deborah Hopkinson weaves the stories of slaves, sharecroppers, and mill workers into a tapestry illuminating the history of cotton in America.… OL42621W
Turning south again Turning south again Houston A. Baker Summary:Offers an account of the struggle for black modernism in the United States. This book combines historical considerations with psychoanalysis, personal memoir, and whiteness studies to argue t… OL4315233W
At the hands of persons unknown At the hands of persons unknown Philip Dray It is easy to shrink from our country's brutal history of lynching. Lynching is called the last great skeleton in our nation's closet: It terrorized all of black America, claimed thousands upon thous… OL5731370W
The punished self The punished self Alex Bontemps "The Punished Self describes enslavement in the American South during the eighteenth century as a systematic assault on blacks' sense of self. Alex Bontemps explores slavery's effects on the captives… OL7307234W
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