The author's interest in preserving the history of the community that he was raised in and providing an insight into the rustic lifestyle of the people living in the Boston Mountain range of the Arkansas Ozarks during the early to mid-1900s sparked his interest in writing this book.
This book offers a rare opportunity to read about how a scholar's teaching informs his research, in this case an examination of the nature of American conservatism.
The material in the book has its genesis with Ireland's early relationship with Spain dating back to the eighteenth century when thousands of Irish emigrated from Ireland to that country.
An insightful personal memoir that contrasts firsthand the dream of the Cuban Revolution as it was in the early 1960s with the deprivations, hardships, and loss of hope that haunt Cuban society today.
In 1822, White authorities in Charleston, South Carolina, learned of plans among the city's enslaved and free Black population to lead an armed antislavery rebellion.
Lincoln scholars explore the president’s law career in this informative volume, examining his legal writings on matters from ethics to the Constitution.
In his celebrated account of the origins of American unity, John Adams described July 1776 as the moment when thirteen clocks managed to strike at the same time.
An anthology exploring the modernization of the South Carolina upcountry and the region's role in creating the New SouthContinuing the theme of unexplored moments introduced in Recovering the Piedmont Past: Unexplored Moments in Nineteenth-Century Upcountry South Carolina History, Timothy P.
In Ben Robertson: South Carolina Journalist and Author, Jodie Peeler tells the story of a man consumed with a need to see the world but whose heart never really left home.
Between Columbus' first expedition in 1492 and the Peace of Paris in 1763, West Europeans created empires of trade and settlement that re-made the social, economic, and political environments not only of their own peoples, but also those of the other societies around the North Atlantic.
One of the most important slave narratives of all time, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth tells the story of an African American woman who struggled against the bondages of slavery in the mid-1800s.
Inklings: John Wilkins Carter and The Carter's Ink Company is the story of an old New England family and the companies they created and operated-beginning with Timothy Carter's Old Corner Bookstore in downtown Boston and spanning a 150-year period.
Losing Eden traces the environmental history and development of the American West and explains how the land has shaped and been shaped by the people who live there.
The first comprehensive study of one of America's most gifted civil rights activists and political mavericksWhen civil rights leader Hosea Lorenzo Williams died in 2000, U.
Your Time Is Done Now tells the story of the Maroons of Dominica and their allies through the transcripts of trials held in 1813 and 1814 during the Second Maroon War.
The eminent political activist examines the principles and strategies of imperial violence and propaganda from American colonization to the modern day.
This history shines a light on America's "e;first civil war"e;: the bloody conflict in Kansas Territory between abolitionists and proslavery extremists.
These prominent filmmakers, "e;two of our most provocative and radical voices,"e; discuss American historical events that have been forgotten-or hidden (Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation).
A road map for addressing and resolving the debate surrounding Confederate monuments in the United StatesIn recent years, the debate over the future of Confederate monuments has taken center stage and caused bitter clashes in communities throughout the American South.