Hakutulokset: Sarja the nathan i. huggins lectures
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The Forgotten Fifth
As the United States gained independence, a full fifth of the country's population was African American. The experiences of these men and women have been largely ignored in the …
Emancipating Lincoln
Emancipating Lincoln seeks a new approach to the Emancipation Proclamation, a foundational text of American liberty that in recent years has been subject to woeful …
The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom
Pulitzer Prize–winner Steven Hahn’s provocative new book challenges deep-rooted views in the writing of American and African-American history. Moving from slave emancipations of …
Afro-Latin America
Of the almost 11 million Africans who came to the Americas between 1500 and 1870, two-thirds came to Spanish America and Brazil. Over four centuries, Africans and their …
How Free Is Free?
In 1985, a black veteran of the civil rights movement offered a bleak vision of a long and troubled struggle. For more than a century, black southerners learned to live with …
The Miner’s Canary
Like the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone, not just minorities. …
The Long Emancipation
Perhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned debate than the abolition of slavery. Answers to basic questions about who ended slavery, how, and why remain fiercely …
Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery
In this engaging book, David Brion Davis offers an illuminating perspective on American slavery. Starting with a long view across the temporal and spatial boundaries of world …
Redeeming the Great Emancipator
The larger-than-life image Abraham Lincoln projects across the screen of American history owes much to his role as the Great Emancipator during the Civil War. Yet this noble aspect …
No Coward Soldiers
In a vibrant and passionate exploration of the twentieth-century civil rights and black power eras in American history, Waldo Martin uses cultural politics as a lens through which …
No Property in Man
A radical reconstruction of the founders’ debate over slavery and the Constitution.Americans revere the Constitution even as they argue fiercely over its original toleration of …
The Problem of Race in the Twenty-First Century
"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line," W. E. B. Du Bois wrote in 1903, and his words have proven sadly prophetic. As we enter the twenty-first …