History of the Americas

In September 1950, Horace Ward, an African American student from La Grange, Georgia, applied to law school at the University of Georgia.

This biography of Joseph Henry Lumpkin (1799-1867) details the life and work of the man whose senior judgeship on Georgia's Supreme Court spanned more than twenty years and included service as its first Chief Justice.

In Founding Federalist, Michael C.

In April 1998, legendary southern jam band Widespread Panic held a free open-air record release show in downtown Athens, Georgia, its homebase.

Among Nashville's many slogans, the one that best reflects its emphasis on manners and decorum is the Nashville Way, a phrase coined by boosters to tout what they viewed as the city's amicable race relations.

In this study of antebellum African American print culture in transnational perspective, Erica L.

For most historians, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the hostilities of the Civil War and the dashed hopes of Reconstruction give way to the nationalizing forces of cultural reunion, a process that is said to have downplayed sectional grievances and celebrated racial and industrial harmony.

Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways.

What does one contested account of an enslaved woman tell us about our difficult racial past?

Aristocrat.

This book details the perspectives of women of African ancestry who witnessed a twentieth-century uprising in St.

This book details the perspectives of women of African ancestry who witnessed a twentieth-century uprising in St.

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROn the 250th anniversary of America's founding - a landmark history of the US Constitution for a troubling new era.

Knowledge production in the Anglosphere depends on the erasure of non-Western ways of knowing especially ways of knowing oneself, the lands and waters, and the relationships between these entities.

After the American Revolution, many Loyalists moved north, where the British colonial government awarded them generous land grants on favourable terms.

Let the timeless beauty of sacred music deepen your Lenten journey with What Wondrous Love: Daily Prayers for Lent and Holy Week 2026.

Reappraising the rise of the civil rights movement in the iconic center of Northern Black lifeUnleashing Black Power explores the local dynamics, national connections, and global context of the Black freedom movement in Harlem from 1954 to 1964, illuminating how activists, organizers, and ordinary people mounted their resistance to systemic racism in the Jim Crow North.