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  • Mary Mcleod Bethune

    Matriarch of Black America

    by Dr. Earl Devine Martin ...
    Mary McLeod Bethune, distinguished educator, humanitarian and churchwoman, was a living legend. Born the fifteenth child of freed slaves in Mayesville, South Carolina, she grew up to be an advisor to four presidents of the United States and Founder of Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Florida. She was Director of the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration under ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • The African Americans

    Many Rivers to Cross

    by Donald Yacovone, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross is the companion book to the six-part, six-hour documentary of the same name. The series is the first to air since 1968 that chronicles the full sweep of 500 years of African American history, from the origins of slavery on the African continent and the arrival of the first black conquistador, Juan Garrido, in Florida in 1513, through five centuries of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Roll, Jordan, Roll

    The World the Slaves Made

    by Eugene D. Genovese ...
    A testament to the power of the human spirit under conditions of extreme oppression, this landmark history of slavery in the South challenged conventional views by illuminating the many forms of resistance to dehumanization that developed in slave society.Displaying keen insight into the minds of both enslaved persons and slaveholders, historian Eugene Genovese investigates the ways that enslaved ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Slavery and Public History

    The Tough Stuff of American Memory

    by Ira Berlin, David W. Blight, Gary B. Nash ...
    "A fascinating collection of essays" by eminent historians exploring how we teach, remember, and confront the history and legacy of American slavery ( Booklist Online).In recent years, the culture wars have called into question the way America's history of slavery is depicted in books, films, television programs, historical sites, and museums. In the first attempt to examine the historiography of ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Union

    The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood

    by Colin Woodard ...
    By the bestselling author of American Nations and Nations Apart, the story of how the myth of U.S. national unity was created and fought over in the nineteenth century--a myth that continues to affect us todayUnion tells the story of the struggle to create a national myth for the United States, one that could hold its rival regional cultures together and forge an American nationhood. On one hand, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Teaching White Supremacy

    America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity

    by Donald Yacovone ...
    **A powerful exploration of the past and present arc of America’s white supremacy—from the country’s inception and Revolutionary years to its 19th century flashpoint of civil war; to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and today’s Black Lives Matter.“The most profoundly original cultural history in recent memory.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University“Stunning, timely . . . an achievement ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Reverend Jennie Johnson and African Canadian History, 1868-1967

    by Nina Reid-Maroney ...
    After her conversion at a Baptist revival at sixteen, Jennie Johnson followed the call to preach. Raised in an African Canadian abolitionist community in Ontario, she immigrated to the United States to attend the African Methodist Episcopal Seminary at Wilberforce University. On an October evening in 1909 she stood before a group of Free Will Baptist preachers in the small town of Goblesville, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Away Down South : A History of Southern Identity

    A History of Southern Identity

    by James C. Cobb ...
    From the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate flag here is a brilliant portrait of southern identity served in an engaging blend of history literature and popular culture. In this insightful book written with dry wit and sharp insight James C. Cobb explains how the South first came to be seen--and then came to see ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • The Weeping Time

    Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History

    by Anne C. Bailey ...
    In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves before, during, and after their sale. Immersing herself in the personal papers of the Butlers, accounts from journalists that witnessed the auction, ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Debunking the 1619 Project

    Exposing the Plan to Divide America

    by Mary Grabar ...
    It’s the New “Big Lie”According the New York Times’s “1619 Project,” America was not founded in 1776, with a declaration of freedom and independence, but in 1619 with the introduction of African slavery into the New World. Ever since then, the “1619 Project” argues, American history has been one long sordid tale of systemic racism.Celebrated historians have debunked this, more than two hundred ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Behind the Mask of Chivalry

    The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan

    by Nancy K. MacLean ...
    On Thanksgiving night, 1915, a small band of hooded men gathered atop Stone Mountain, an imposing granite butte just outside Atlanta. With a flag fluttering in the wind beside them, a Bible open to the twelfth chapter of Romans, and a flaming cross to light the night sky above, William Joseph Simmons and his disciples proclaimed themselves the new Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, named for the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Raising Racists

    The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South

    by Kristina DuRocher ...
    Series series New Directions in Southern History
    White southerners recognized that the perpetuation of segregation required whites of all ages to uphold a strict social order—especially the young members of the next generation. White children rested at the core of the system of segregation between 1890 and 1939 because their participation was crucial to ensuring the future of white supremacy. Their socialization in the segregated South offers an ... Read more

    $22.99 USD