Organizing Freedom. Black Emancipation Activism in the Civil War Midwest, Paperback - Jennifer R. Harbour

Offers a riveting and significant social history of black emancipation activism in Indiana and Illinois during the Civil War era. By enlarging the ...

Thulani Davis provides a sweeping rethinking of Reconstruction by tracing how the four million people newly freed from bondage created political or...

DescriptionAt the crux of America's history stand two astounding events: the immediate and complete destruction of the most powerful system of slav...

I Freed Myself: African American Self-Emancipation in the Civil War Era - David Williams

Reducere. Stephen Atkins Swails is a forgotten American hero. A free Black in the North before the Civil War began, Swails exhibited such exemplary service i...

Reducere. For a century and a half, Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation has been the dominant narrative of African American freedom in...

Reducere. In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass...

"Describes the passing of the Emancipation Proclamation, including the immediate and long reaching effects it had in the American Civil War and bey...

More than 150 years after the event, the grand attack against the Union position on Cemetery Ridge still emotionally resonates with Gettysburg enth...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this penetrating examination of African American politics and culture, Paul Ortiz throws a powerful light on the struggle of black Fl...

Reducere. How did the Civil War and the emancipation of four million slaves reconfigure the natural landscape in the South and the farming economy dependent ...

Rinaldo Walcott posits that Black people globally live in the time of emancipation and that emancipation is definitely not freedom, showing that wh...

Reducere. We commonly think of the American Revolution as simply the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that independence actua...

"A most persuasive work that repositions the American debates over emancipation where they clearly belong, in a broader Anglo-Atlantic context." --...

There are few movements more firmly associated with civil disobedience than the Civil Rights Movement. In the mainstream imagination, civil rights ...

In early 1864, as the Confederate Army of Tennessee licked its wounds after being routed at the Battle of Chattanooga, Major-General Patrick Clebur...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Tuck traces the black freedom struggle in all its diversity, from the first years of freedom during the Civil War to President Obama's inauguration...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Julius B. Fleming Jr.Illustration(s): 12 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 320Collection: Performanc...

Reducere. Black Americans have been among the hardest hit by the rapid deindustrialization and accompanying economic decline that have become so synonymous w...

Reducere. Bushwhackers recounts hundreds of incidents that brought the Civil War home to the mountains of the Old North State. Some are violent, some humorou...

Drawing on newly-declassified government documents and international archives in Spain and beyond, this book explores the many ways in which Scots ...

Weaving national narratives from stories of the daily lives and familiar places of local residents, Francoise Hamlin chronicles the slow struggle f...

Reducere. Aged twenty-one, James R Jump gave up his job as a journalist and went to Spain to fight General Franco's fascists in the Spanish civil war of 1936...

Reducere. Too far north, the great state of Maine did not witness any Civil War battles. However, Mainers contributed to the war in many important ways. From...

As the Civil War unfolded, Murfreesboro became hotly contested by Confederate and Union forces. Both sides occupied the town for significant period...

Reducere. In Black Rage in New Orleans, Leonard N. Moore traces the shocking history of police corruption in the Crescent City from World War II to Hurricane...

Reducere. Some of the most dramatic and consequential events of the Civil War era took place in the South Carolina Lowcountry between Charleston and Savannah...

Reducere. When the passage of the Abolition of Slavery Act, effective August 1, 1834, ushered in the end of slavery throughout the British Empire, people of ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Giles TremlettNumber of pages: 720Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 132 x 198 x 52Cover type: Paperb...

Reducere. Oedipus Tyrannus by the great tragedian Sophocles is one of the most famous works of ancient Greek literature. The play has always been admired for...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is the action-filled biography of Marvin E. Gilmore, Jr., an African-American musician-turned-businessman, the grandson of slaves, ...

Reducere. The pigpen cipher, the Devil's Coffee Mill, and germ warfare were all a part of the Civil War, but you won't learn that in your history booksDiscov...

Reducere. It is Macie's first day of school and she is so excited! On her journey to find her new teacher, Macie meets and learns about the roles and respons...

Reducere. DescriptionThis powerful book details the history of Norteno & Sureno gangs and how their split came about. It serves as an empowering historical t...

Reducere. "First at Bethel, farthest at Gettysburg and Chickamauga and last at Appomattox" is a phrase that is often used to encapsulate the role of North Ca...

Reducere. As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 186...

Reducere. Worldwide supplies of sugar and cotton were impacted dramatically as the U.S. Civil War dragged on. New areas of production entered these lucrative...

Reducere. The civil rights movement was defined by figures thrust into positions of importance; be they participants in a sit-in, Freedom Riders, or marchers...

Reducere. The acclaimed sweeping history of a nation at war with itself, told here for the first time by the people who lived it Bottom-up history at its ver...

Insightful look at special operations in the American Civil War.Illustrations: 8 black and white illustrations

Reducere. West Virginia, "Child of the Storm, " was the only state formed as a result of the Civil War. The struggle between eastern and western Virginia ove...