Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South, Paperback - Kimberly M. Welch

Based on new research conducted in courthouse basements and storage sheds in rural Mississippi and Louisiana, Kimberly Welch draws on over 1, 000 e...

Reducere. In 1984, Vanessa Williams broke the race barrier to become Miss America, but she was not the first Black woman to wear a pageant crown. Black beaut...

Reducere. In their daily struggles to forge lives of dignity and meaning within an inhuman system, slaves in the Antebellum South demonstrated creativity, re...

Reducere. DescriptionWidely recognized as "one of the nation's foremost scholars on the slave era" (Boston Globe), Bancroft Prize-winning historian Ira Berli...

Did you know that we know less about the bottom of the oceans than we know about the Moon? Discover other mind-blowing facts about oceans!

Reducere. Everything has changed. Megan has lost her ability to see the future and CJ is a Vernadali. An Angels Blessed Vernadali at that. What does that eve...

A journey to the American South in search of friendship, life lessons and bluegrass.

Reducere. In this richly revealing biography of a major, but little-known, American businessman and philanthropist, Peter M. Ascoli brings to life a portrait...

Reducere. The extraction of raw turpentine and tar from the southern longleaf pine--along with the manufacture of derivative products such as spirits of turp...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Keri Leigh MerrittAnalyzing land policy, labor, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess worker...

Reducere. Fascinated by the collision of country and soul music in the Southern states, Hoskyns and photographer Muir MacKean set out on a journey through th...

Reducere. Winner of the Alice Hanson Jones Prize, Economic History AssociationA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearThe civil rights movement was al...

Reducere. Pixie is a scared and timid chihuahua who needs just one important thing to survive: a home. She is cold, hungry, and injured when she is rescued b...

Reducere. DescriptionBack in print after more than a decade, the singular chronicle of life at the forefront of antiracist activism, with a new introduction ...

Reducere. From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Ameri...

Reducere. A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and...

A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system an...

Reducere. Everyone should have a happy place. A place to hang out, relax and just be happy! Come with a young boy who takes one last visit to Holland State P...

Reducere. Wildsam Field Guides: American South reveals this American region through local stories, travel intel and modern lore, seeking out the real and roo...

Reducere. A great deal has been written about southern memory centering on the Civil War, particularly the view of the war as a valiant lost cause. In this c...

At its height the Creek Nation comprised a collection of multiethnic towns and villages with a domain stretching across large parts of Alabama, Geo...

A journalist's raw, first-person account of what his family endured after his eldest brother killed a man and was sentenced to life in prison. At t...

Reducere. During the two centuries following European contact, the world of late prehistoric Mississippian chiefdoms collapsed and Native communities there f...

Reducere. While Jackie Robinson is justly famous for breaking the color line in major league baseball in 1947, other young African American players, among th...

Reducere. In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of countr...

Did you know the planet Uranus smells like farts? Discover other mind-blowing facts about space!

Reducere. A story of one family's love and courage in the Jim Crow-era Deep South In defiance of his middle-class landowning family, a young white man named ...

This provocative and life-affirming memoir, by one of the world's foremost intersex activists, charts the author's journey from discovering she is ...

Did you know that we use 72 muscles to speak one word? Discover other mind-blowing facts about the human body!

Reducere. Description "Catchin' babies" was merely one aspect of the broad role of African American midwives in the twentieth-century South. Yet, little has ...

Reducere. This richly illustrated book offers a glimpse into the lives and creativity of African American quilters during the era of slavery. Originally publ...

Did you know that the Earth is a giant magnet? Discover other mind-blowing facts about the Earth!

Reducere. In The Queer South, Douglas Ray has assembled over 60 queer-identified voices exploring their experiences of the American South in nonfiction and p...

Reducere. For hundreds of years, war has raged across the realm of Guardian Angels. White-Wing against Black-Wing. Grace is the Saboteur, daughter of the Whi...

Reducere. The transatlantic slave trade brought individuals from diverse African regions and cultures to a common destiny in the American South. In this comp...

Reducere. "A fascinating story."--Virginia Magazine "The detail of the discussion, the reliance on considerable primary evidence, and the overall contributio...

Reducere. Dr. William J. Welch and Mrs. Louise M. Welch met in 1934. Mrs. Welch had been part of A. R. Orage's Gurdjieff group in New York City since the lat...

Reducere. For all that is known about the depth and breadth of African American history, we still understand surprisingly little about the lives of African A...

Reducere. More than one-fifth of US households with children have at least one child with special needs. Raising a child with special needs is spiritually, e...

Reducere. Hosea Hudson's story, as remarkable as it is, is one that could be told many times by determined southern blacks who have fought for freedom and ju...

In 1997 Gary Younge explored the American South by retracing the route of the original Freedom Riders of the 1960s. His road trip was a remarkable ...