The Black Seminoles: History of a Freedom-Seeking People, Paperback - Kenneth W. Porter

Reducere. A powerful and stirring story. San Antonio Express-News An epic tale of desperate, unwitting fugitives who would without exaggeration defeat armed ...

DescriptionTopher and Skibby are well on their way to freedom after a desperate escape from their ancient cotton plantation-until catastrophe strik...

New B-format paperback - The definitive history of the virulent and fatal plague outbreaks that wiped out half of London's populations from the med...

Reducere. In this moving and original work, William S. McFeely, one of this country's most distinguished historians, retells the history--and enters into the...

Reducere. From the Revolution to our own time, freedom has been America's strongest cultural bond and its most perilous fault line, a birthright for some Ame...

Reducere. More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence,...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: David W. BlightEditor: Jim DownsThis collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters...

By 1808, both Britain and the United States had passed laws outlawing the transatlantic slave trade. Yet the trade covertly carried on. In the summ...

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

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 ...

Explore the seaside town of Bournemouth in this fully illustrated A-Z guide to its history, people and places.Publisher: Amberley PublishingAuthor(...

DescriptionThe 100th-anniversary special edition of Jailed for Freedom, the essential history and first-person account of the courageous and milita...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen Dorothy Burnett joined the library staff at Howard University in 1928, she was given a mandate to administer a library of Negro lif...

Reducere. In May 1967, internationally renowned activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased forty acres of land in the Mississippi Delta, launching the Freedom Farms...

Reducere. This book is a compilation of histories-both personal and general-including all Seabee units that served on Iwo but concentrating primarily on the ...

Examines how different memory texts - filmic, landscape, presidential speech, and museums - function both to bolster and question the centrality of...

Reducere. Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with t...

Reducere. Undoubtedly the most influential black intellectual of the twentieth century and one of America's finest historians, W.E.B. DuBois knew that the li...

Reducere. It was the final speech of a long day, August 28, 1963, when hundreds of thousands gathered on the Mall for the March on Washington for Jobs and Fr...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Edmund S. MorganThis book makes the provocative case here that America has remained politically stable because the Founding...

Reducere. Description Baptists through the Centuries provides a clear introduction to the history and theology of this influential and international people. ...

Reducere. Get up to speed quickly--review and practice major concepts in accounting Whether you're looking to improve your classroom experience, or simply be...

* The second edition of Analog Integrated Circuit Design focuses on several types of circuits that have increased in importance in the past decade....

Reducere. A Short World History of Black People in Ancient Times, provides a history of the numerous Black and African civilizations that existed between 60,...

Reducere. The docks and alleys of Philadelphia's riverward neighborhoods teem with forgotten stories and strange histories. In the overlooked corners of Kens...

Reducere. Upon moving to the Midwest, Juanita "Nita" Luisa Mendez explores her family's new home and stumbles upon a stuffed gorilla, locked away in a unique...

Reducere. Authoritative and immediate, this is the classic account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T.R. Fehrenbach traces the Comanches' ...

Reducere. In February 1971, racial tension surrounding school desegregation in Wilmington, North Carolina, culminated in four days of violence and skirmishes...

Reducere. From the beginnings of the slave trade through colonization, the struggle for independence, Mobutu's brutal three decades of rule, and the civil wa...

The State of Freedom: A Social History of the British State since 1800 - Patrick Joyce