We Are American Citizens offers a groundbreaking reexamination of the antebellum national Colored... Læs mere
Arguing tobacco was more counterpart than counterpoint to sugar, Cuban Tobacco in the Age of Second Slavery focuses on the development of tobacco as a... Læs mere
Ladies of Little Rock explores the agency and activism of middle-class Black women and girls who led the movement to desegregate Little Rock Central High School.
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Despite his accomplishments as a naturalist and an artist, John Abbot is little known today. This... Læs mere
Hacking Hip Hop is a methodological memoir and critical study that positions Hip Hop as a powerful system of design thinking.
Although historians have given considerable attention to the American Revolution, the agricultural history of the American War for Independence exists only in pieces found in scattered articles and passing references in various books dealing with the war.
Part biography, part family history, and a crucial extension of his father’s work, Jon Boorstin illuminates what we might learn from what was left out. And how, during another challenging time for America, we may renew our own faith in the future.
Learning from Savannah bridges the mostly separate worlds of the history of Savannah’s famed urban plan and the history of the city’s architecture.
“If there should ever be a black monarchy in South Carolina,” noted his colonel, “[Rivers] will be its king.” True to this prediction, Rivers went on to serve as a South Carolina state legislator and as one of the first Black mayors in the United States.
Today, few Southerners are aware of the economic, social, technological, and historical significance of the thousands of watermills that once stood along streams across the Southern landscape in the thousands.