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In My Father's House Are Many Mansions
Burton traces the evolution of Edgefield County from the antebellum period through Reconstruction and beyond. From amassed information on every household in this large rural community, he tests the many generalizations about southern black and white families of this period and finds that they were s... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1985 -
The Age of Lincoln, First Edition
Stunning in its breadth and conclusions, The Age of Lincoln is a fiercely original history of the five decades that pivoted around the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Abolishing slavery, the age’s most extraordinary accomplishment, was not its most profound. The enduring legacy of the age was inscrib... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court
In the first comprehensive accounting of the U.S. Supreme Court’s race-related jurisprudence, a distinguished historian and renowned civil rights lawyer scrutinize a legacy too often blighted by racial injustice. The Supreme Court is usually seen as protector of our liberties: it ended segregatio... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Frederick Douglass: A Life in Documents (A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era)
Frederick Douglass was born enslaved in February 1818, but from this most humble of beginnings, he rose to become a world-famous orator, newspaper editor, and champion of the rights of women and African Americans. He not only survived slavery to live in freedom but also became an outspoken critic of... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
The Struggle for Equality: Essays on Sectional Conflict, the Civil War, and the Long Reconstruction
This collection of essays, organized around the theme of the struggle for equality in the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, also serves to honor the renowned Civil War historian James McPherson. Complete with a brief interview with the celebrated scholar, this volume refle... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
The Battlefield and Beyond: Essays on the American Civil War (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)
by Bertram Wyatt-Brown • Emory M. Thomas • Paul D. Escott • Daniel E. Sutherland • Orville Vernon Burton • Rosemarie Zagarri • Alan M. Kraut • David Kyvig • Leonne Hudson • Ken Nivison • Michael Connolly • Judith Gentry • Jane Turner Censer • Herman Hattaway • Clayton E. JewettIn The Battlefield and Beyond leading Civil War historians explore a tragic part of our nation's history though the lenses of race, gender, leadership, politics, and memory. The essays in this strong collection shed new light on the defining issues of the Civil War era.Orville Vernon Burton, Leonne ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Remembering Brown at Fifty: The University of Illinois Commemorates Brown v. Board of Education
by Kal Alston • Margaret L Andersen • Kathryn H. Anthony • Nathaniel C Banks • Bernice McNair Barnett • Christopher Benson • Ed Blankenheim • Julian Bond • Orville Vernon Burton • Jason Chambers • Constance Curry • Joseph A. De Laine • Mary L. Dudziak • Joe Feagin • John Hope Franklin • Ophelia De Gona • Lani Guinier • Darlene Clark Hine • Freeman A. Hrabowski • John Jennings • Ralph Lemon • George Lipsitz • Jim Loewen • Laughlin McDonald • David O'Brien • James C. Onderdonk • Sekou Sundiata • Christopher Teal • Nicholas Watkins • Carrie Mae Weems • Juan Williams • Joy Ann WIlliamsonInspired by the University of Illinois's celebration of the Brown v. Board of Education decision's fiftieth anniversary in 2004, this collection addresses the significance of the Brown decision in the contributors' lives or work in education and civil rights. The book stands as a historic document i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009