Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow, Paperback - Henry Louis Gates Jr

Reducere. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents a journey through America's past and our nation's attempts at renewal in this look at the Civil War's conclusion, R...

DescriptionThis is a story about America during and after Reconstruction, one of history's most pivotal and misunderstood chapters. In a stirring a...

DescriptionThe New York Times bestseller. A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the vi...

Reducere. Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "eclectic, exciting, convincing, provocative" and in The Washington Post Book World as "brilliantly ori...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Henry Louis Gates JrSelected as a 2012 Outstanding Title by AAUP University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Lib...

An exploration of the cultural legacy left by African slaves in the Caribbean and Latin AmericaPublisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Henry...

Publisher: Penguin Putnam IncAuthor(s): Clarence A. HaynesNumber of pages: 144Collection: True HistoryPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 216 x...

"This is a book of stories, " writes Henry Louis Gates, "and all might be described as 'narratives of ascent.'" As some remarkable men talk about t...

Reducere. In a coming-of-age story as enchantingly vivid and ribald as anything Mark Twain or Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., recounts his childh...

Reducere. DescriptionA unique and comprehensive collection of 26 literary essays that provides real evidence of the rich cultural history of black women in A...

Reducere. DescriptionThe decisive victories in the fight for racial equality in America were not easily won, much less inevitable; they were achieved through...

Reducere. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., presents a seminal volume of four classic slave narratives, including the 1749 texts of The Life of Olaudah Equiano, the la...

Reducere. One hundred original profiles of the most influential African-Americans of the twentieth century. Without Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis, we would ...

Reducere. From the time of his famous Atlanta address in 1895 until his death in 1915, Booker T. Washington was the preeminent African-American educator and ...

Reducere. For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Toget...

Publisher: Penguin AdultAuthor(s): Henry Louis GatesIllustration(s): 35 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

Contributor(s): Author: C. Vann WoodwardWith: William S. McFeelyC. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Sou...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Brooks E. HefnerIllustration(s): 15 black & whilte illustrationsNumber of pages: 248Publication ...

Reducere. DescriptionOn August 31, 1886, a massive earthquake centered near Charleston, South Carolina, sent shock waves as far north as Maine, down into Flo...

Reducere. In Segregating Sound, Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to think and talk about southern music bear little rel...

Reducere. An authoritative text and historical and contemporary photographs that bring independent African American communities out of the shadows of history.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Henry Louis GatesIn 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descen...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Henry Louis GatesEditor: Valerie SmithEditor: William L. AndrewsThe much-anticipated Third Edition brings together the work...

Reducere. The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers's now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1957, was billed as "...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms of gendered racial terror and heinous ...

Reducere. In early Irish society there existed an honoured group of people called the "Filid." They preserved the native stories and they were learned in the...

DescriptionThe Italian sculptor known as Donatello helped to forge a new kind of art--one that came to define the Renaissance. His work was progres...

Reducere. The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series. "Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work." --Eddie S. Gl...

Pink Floyd's debut album released in 1967, featuring the original line-up of Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Richard Wright and Nick Mason

DescriptionBaseball Hall of Famer Leroy "Satchel" Paige (1906 - 1982) changed the face of the game in a career that spanned five decades. Much has ...

Anthropology At the Dawn of the Cold War. The Influence of Foundations, McCarthyism and the CIA - Dustin M. Wax

Reducere. An explosive, long-forgotten story of police violence that exposes the historical roots of today's criminal justice crisis A deeply researched and ...

A globe-spanning narrative history of the 1850s - a time of electrifying change - seen through the eyes of the men and women who embraced the adven...

Publisher: Sitaram PressAuthor(s): Dena (Dena Merriam) MerriamNumber of pages: 576Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 154 x 230 x 32Cover type: Paper...

Reducere. In The Other American Dilemma, Rubén Donato and Jarrod Hanson examine the experiences of Mexican immigrants, Mexican Americans, and Hispanos/as in ...

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Some legends suggest Jesus travelled to the British Isles with Joseph of Arimathea. Gordon Strachan uncovers fascinating connections between the Ce...

Reducere. A fresh look at the endlessly fascinating Tudors--the dramatic and overlooked story of Henry VII and his founding of the Tudor Dynasty--filled with...

Reducere. From New York Times bestselling author Alex Tresniowski comes a "compelling" (The Guardian) and "riveting" (The New York Times Book Review) true-cr...

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