Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer
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The Emancipation Proclamation is one of the most important documents in American history. As we...
Greatness in the Shadows: Larry Doby and the Integration of the American League
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Breaking the color line with Jackie Robinson Just weeks after Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn...
I am Soldier of Fortune: Dancing with Devils
Robert K. Brown and Vann Spencer
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"Bob Brown's book is well named. It is, on one hand, a concise chronological history of a unique...
Southern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region
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Why has the American South - a place with abundant rainfall - become embroiled in intrastate wars...
The American Warfare State: The Domestic Politics of Military Spending
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How is it that the United States-a country founded on a distrust of standing armies and strong...
Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta
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Blues is the cornerstone of American popular music, the bedrock of rock and roll. In this...
Ceaseless Music: Sounding Wordsworth's the Prelude
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Through a series of poetic responses and critical reflections, Ceaseless Music explores the...
Counternarrative Possibilities: Virgin Land, Homeland, and Cormac Mccarthy's Westerns
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Counternarrative Possibilities reads Cormac McCarthy's westerns against the backdrop of American...
Target in the Night
Ricardo Piglia and Sergio Gabriel Waisman
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One of the BBC's Ten Books to Read (December 2015) "Ricardo Piglia may be the best Latin American...
Encyclopedia of American Women and Religion
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This two-volume set examines women's contributions to religious and moral development in America,...