Browse by Subject: History

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The Culture War in the Civil Rights Movement

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Welfare and Charity in the Antebellum South

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Race in the American South: From Slavery to Civil Rights

This is the first book to offer an overarching view of the ways race has indelibly shaped the history of the United States.

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A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau

Long explores the unique social, political, and legal setting in which the lives of Laveau’s African and European ancestors became intertwined in nineteenth-century New Orleans. With 39 illustrations.

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"The Ticket to Freedom": The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration

The first full-scale political history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, tracing its struggle for black civil and political equality from its founding in 1909 through the post-civil rights years.

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From Rights to Economics: The Ongoing Struggle for Black Equality in the U.S. South

Rich with the voices of black and white southern workers, this broad collection of essays shows how ardently African Americans have had to continue fighting for economic parity in the decades since the civil rights legislation of the 1960s.

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Making a New South: Race, Leadership, and Community after the Civil War

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Fellow Travelers: Indians and Europeans Contesting the Early American Trail

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Remembering the Great Depression in the Rural South

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Jackie Cochran: Pilot in the Fastest Lane

This riveting story of America’s greatest woman pilot draws from previously unpublished information about Cochran’s early years and her first marriage, and on her extensive correspondence with U.S. Presidents, Air Force generals, and business tycoons to