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Deliver us from evil Deliver us from evil Lacy K. Ford Illuminates the white South's efforts to justify slavery, focusing on the period from the drafting of the federal constitution in 1787 through the age of Jackson. Draws heavily on primary sources, in… OL15811994W
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
Higher lessons in English Higher lessons in English Thad W. Tate,Ronald Hoffman,Peter J. Albert Essays originally presented at a symposium in Washington, D.C., Mar. 18-19, 1982 under the sponsorship of the United States Capitol Historical Society and the Institute of Early American History and … OL16456424W
Mountain men Mountain men Andrew Santella A description of the mountain men, nineteenth-century explorers and fur traders who helped open up the West to United States settlement. OL18016093W
Colonial Southern slavery Colonial Southern slavery Paul Finkelman xvii, 477 p. : 24 cm OL19017269W
Delta epiphany Delta epiphany Ellen B. Meacham "In April 1967, Robert F. Kennedy knelt in a crumbling shack in Mississippi trying to coax a response from a listless child. The toddler sat picking at dried rice and beans spilled over the dirt floo… OL19751089W
Truevine Truevine Beth Macy The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a swel… OL20046005W
Southern Reconstruction Southern Reconstruction Philip Leigh "The Reconstruction Era--the years immediately following the Civil War when Congress directed the reintegration of the former Confederate states into the Union--remains, as historian Eric Foner sugge… OL20060281W
1858 1858 Bruce Chadwick "Highly recommended–a gripping narrative of the critical year of 1858 and the nation's slide toward disunion and war. Chadwick is especially adept at retelling the intense emotions of this critical t… OL2006709W
Ghosts of the Alamo and other hauntings of the South Ghosts of the Alamo and other hauntings of the South Matt Chandler "Describes ghost sightings and hauntings in the southern United States"-- OL23312447W
Deep Souths Deep Souths J. William Harris "Deep Souths tells the stories of three southern regions from Reconstruction to World War II: the Georgia Sea Islands and Atlantic coast, the eastern Piedmont of Georgia, and the Mississippi-Yazoo De… OL2743141W
Plain folk and gentry in a slave society Plain folk and gentry in a slave society J. William Harris In 1861, only about one-quarter of white southern families owned slaves, yet the vast majority of nonslave-owning whites followed southern planters into a long and bloody war to defend slavery. In do… OL2743142W
Life in Black and White Life in Black and White Brenda E. Stevenson Life in the old South has always fascinated Americans--whether in the mythical portrayals of the planter elite from fiction such as Gone With the Wind or in historical studies that look inside the sl… OL2919427W
Southern history across the color line Southern history across the color line Nell Irvin Painter "In this collection, Painter reaches across the color line to examine how race, gender, class, and individual subjectivity shaped the lives of black and white women and men in the nineteenth- and twe… OL2978164W
Race and Schooling in the South, 1880-1950 Race and Schooling in the South, 1880-1950 Robert A. Margo The interrelation among race, schooling, and labor market opportunities of American blacks can help us make sense of the relatively poor economic status of blacks in contemporary society. The role of… OL4449156W
Shelby Foote Shelby Foote C. Stuart Chapman "For a biographer Shelby Foote is a famously reluctant subject. In writing this biography however, C. Stuart Chapman gained valuable access through interviews and shared correspondence, an advantage … OL5953378W
African American southerners in slavery, Civil War, and Reconstruction African American southerners in slavery, Civil War, and Reconstruction Claude H. Nolen "This work documents the many roles filled by Southern blacks in the last decades of slavery, the Civil War years, and the following period of Reconstruction. African Americans suffered and resisted … OL6211522W
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
Narrow Dog to Indian River Narrow Dog to Indian River Terry Darlington Two pensioners and a whippet sail their English narrowboat down America's 1,000 mile long Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway...Having survived their voyage to Carcassonne, you would expect pensioners Ter… OL8383279W
These Few Also Paid a Price These Few Also Paid a Price G. McLeod Bryan "This book is composed of the testimonies of thirty Southern whites who participated in the Civil Rights Movement juxtaposed against white America's intense hatred of any change in the racial status … OL843863W
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