Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890, Paperback - Hilary Green

Tracing the first two decades of state-funded African American schools, Educational Reconstruction addresses the ways in which black Richmonders, b...

Reducere. The period of 1850-1865 consisted of violent struggle and crisis as the United States underwent the prodigious transition from slaveholding to oste...

This volume provides the richest study available of African American literature during the years immediately following the Civil War. Studying auth...

In this provocative appraisal of desegregation in South Carolina, R. Scott Baker contends that half a century after the Brown decision we still kno...

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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...

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Publisher: Frith Book Company Ltd.Author(s): Hilary GreenIllustration(s): Historical photographsNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 2001Dimensions...

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

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In Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968, Heersink and Jenkins examine how National Convention politics allowed the South to ...

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

The exciting, moving and evocative sequel to NOW IS THE HOUR, continuing the stories of four friends during World War Two.Publisher: Hodder & Stoug...

Third in the FOLLIES series which follows four friends in the Second World War, two entertaining the troops near the front line and two acting as u...

Hilary Green's second action-packed World War II saga of a young Englishwoman working undercover in occupied France.Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonAu...

Reducere. Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on Southerners' persistent racism. Heather Cox Richardson argues instead that cl...

Reducere. Jacinta V. White's Resurrecting The Bones will not let southern African American history be silenced by re-zoning, gentrification, and useful forge...

Glorious and moving World War II saga following the battles, loves and struggles of four performers who put aside their careers to do their bit in ...

Reducere. Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, s...

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

African American schools in the segregated South faced enormous obstacles in educating their students. But some of these schools succeeded in provi...

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Reducere. In the South after the Civil War, the reassertion of white supremacy tended to pit white against black. In the West, by contrast, a radically diffe...

Everything you need to know about independent schools and colleges in London and the South-East. Now in its 33rd edition.Publisher: John Catt Educa...

Reducere. As the year 1890 wound to a close, a band of more than three hundred Lakota Sioux Indians led by Chief Big Foot made their way toward South Dakota'...

Through the example of Baltimore, Maryland, David Taft Terry explores the historical importance of African American resistance to Jim Crow laws in ...

Reducere. DescriptionA triumph of historical detective work, Crossing the Continent is the remarkable, never-before-told story of the first black explorer an...

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Reducere. DescriptionMaking Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such a crucial, embattled--and distorting...

The Upper South--Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia--was the scene of the most destructive war ever fought on American soil. Contending ar...

From wool and leather to silks, spices and gems, a fascinating journey through early international trade.Publisher: Amberley PublishingAuthor(s): H...

Reducere. DescriptionThis volume focuses broadly on the history of the social welfare reform work of nineteenth-century African American women who founded in...

The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The R...

Reducere. The state of Florida has a rich history of African Americans who have contributed to the advancement and growth of today. From slaves to millionair...

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Reducere. In 2007, while researching mountain culture in upstate South Carolina, anthropologist John M. Coggeshall stumbled upon the small community of Liber...

Reducere. As the North celebrated the end of the Civil War, the people of the South, particularly of recently fallen Richmond, mourned. The South was about t...

2010 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the American Sociological Association; Race, Gender, and Class Section2008 Finalist,...

DescriptionThe civil rights revolutions of the 1950s and 1960s transformed the literature on Reconstruction in America by emphasizing the social hi...

South African cuisine is an exciting and unique blend of African, European, and Eastern cooking traditions distilled through years of diverse and d...

Frederick Douglass dismissed Myrtilla's plan to open a school for African American girls in the slaveholding South as "reckless, almost to the poin...