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  • The Problem of Race in the 21st Century

    by Thomas C. Holt ...
    Series Book 1 - The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
    An analysis of how the conditions of race and racism in our culture have changed in our time and what this means for our future."The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line," W. E. B. Du Bois wrote in 1903, and his words have proven sadly prophetic. As we enter the twenty-first century, the problem remains—and yet it, and the line that defines it, have shifted in subtle ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Civil Rights Movement

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Thomas C. Holt ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Civil Rights Movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively change the legal and political status of African Americans, but it prefigured as well the moral premises and methods of struggle for other historically oppressed groups seeking equal standing in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Meadowland

    by Thomas C. Holt ...
    In 1037, a senior civil servant of the Byzantine empire faces a tedious journey to Greece, escorting the Army payroll. His only companions are a detachment of the Empire's elite Guard, recruited from Viking Scandinavia.When the wagon sheds a wheel, he passes the time talking with two veterans, who have a remarkable story to tell; the Viking discovery of America.As he records the story, years later ... Read more

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  • Children of Fire

    A History of African Americans

    by Thomas C. Holt ...
    "Simply brilliant. . . . The first survey of African American history to rival John Hope Franklin and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham's From Slavery to Freedom." —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Ordinary people don't experience history as it is taught by historians. The same people who lived through the Civil War and the eradication of slavery also dealt with the hardships of Reconstruction, so why do we almost ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Movement

    The African American Struggle for Civil Rights

    by Thomas C. Holt ...
    The civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively change the legal and political status of African Americans, but it prefigured as well the moral premises and methods of struggle for other historically oppressed groups seeking equal standing in ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • A Song For Nero

    by Thomas C. Holt ...
    History tells us that in 69AD, at the ripe old age of 32 and on hearing that General Glaba's forces were closing in, Nero fled his palace in Rome. He stabbed himself in the throat with a pen and was trampled to death by horses in a muddy ditch. His last words were, 'What an artist dies with me'.But there is another possibility: Nero did not die in that ditch, but somebody who looked very much like ... Read more

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    The Movement

    by Thomas C. Holt ...
    Narrated by Corey Allen ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 31 min

    The civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively change the legal and political status of African Americans, but it prefigured as well the moral premises and methods of struggle for other historically oppressed groups seeking equal standing in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Robert E. Lee and Me

    A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

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  • Blood, Oil and the Axis

    The Allied Resistance Against a Fascist State in Iraq and the Levant, 1941

    by John Broich ...
    An "almost absurdly colorful" history of the WWII battle for the Levant: "In places . . . the material is like Casablanca meets The English Patient" ( The Wall Street Journal).In the spring of 1941, the Allied forces had one last hope: that the Axis would run through its fuel supply. In Blood, Oil and the Axis, historian John Broich tells the vital story of Iraq and the Levant during this most ... Read more

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  • Fatal Discord

    Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind

    by Michael Massing ...
    The "riveting" story of Erasmus, Martin Luther, and the rivalry between the reformer and the dissident: "An impressive, powerful intellectual history." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)At a time when Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael were revolutionizing Western art and culture, Erasmus of Rotterdam was helping to transform Europe's intellectual and religious life, developing a new design for ... Read more

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  • I Wonder as I Wander

    An Autobiography

    by Langston Hughes ...
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    The most dramatic and intimate moments of Langston Hughes's life in the turbulent 1930s. The second volume of his autobiography following The Big Sea .Langston Hughes picks up where he left off in The Big Sea, which focused on his early life and involvement in the Harlem Renaissance. In this sequel, his wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia, Japan, Spain (during its ... Read more

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