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  • Journalism and Jim Crow

    White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America

    by Kathy Roberts Forde, Sid Bedingfield, Bryan Bowman, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Kristin L. Gustafson, D'Weston Haywood, Blair LM Kelley, Razvan Sibii0, Robert Greene II1 ...
    Series series The History of Media and Communication
    Winner of the American Historical Association’s 2022 Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize.White publishers and editors used their newspapers to build, nurture, and protect white supremacy across the South in the decades after the Civil War. At the same time, a vibrant Black press fought to disrupt these efforts and force the United States to live up to its democratic idea... ... Read more

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  • The 1619 Project

    A New Origin Story

    by Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine ...
    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.“[A] groundbreaking compendium . . . bracing and urgent . . . This collection is an extraordinary update to an ongoing project of vital truth-telling.”—Esquire**NOW AN EMMY ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Reconstruction Updated Edition

    America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-18

    by Eric Foner ...
    From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period that shaped modern America.Eric Foner's "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) redefined how the post-Civil War period was viewed.Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Strange Career of Jim Crow

    by C. Vann Woodward;William S. McFeely ...
    C. Vann Woodward who died in 1999 at the age of 91 was America's most eminent Southern historian the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now to honor his long and truly distinguished career Oxford is pleased to publish this special commemorative edition of Woodward's most influential work The Strange Career of Jim Crow. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • My Face Is Black Is True

    Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations

    by Mary Frances Berry ...
    Acclaimed historian Mary Frances Berry resurrects the remarkable story of ex-slave Callie House who, seventy years before the civil-rights movement, demanded reparations for ex-slaves. A widowed Nashville washerwoman and mother of five, House (1861-1928) went on to fight for African American pensions based on those offered to Union soldiers, brilliantly targeting $68 million in taxes on seized ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Forever Free

    The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction

    by Eric Foner ...
    From one of our most distinguished historians, a new examination of the vitally important years of Emancipation and Reconstruction during and immediately following the Civil War–a necessary reconsideration that emphasizes the era’s political and cultural meaning for today’s America.In Forever Free, Eric Foneroverturns numerous assumptions growing out of the traditional understanding of the period, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • At the Hands of Persons Unknown

    The Lynching of Black America

    by Philip Dray ...
    WINNER OF THE SOUTHERN BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION • “A landmark work of unflinching scholarship.”—The New York TimesThis extraordinary account of lynching in America, by acclaimed civil rights historian Philip Dray, shines a clear, bright light on American history’s darkest stain—illuminating its causes, perpetrators, apologists, and victims. Philip Dray also tells the story of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Black History of the White House

    by Clarence Lusane ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    The Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House as experienced by African Americans, from the generations of enslaved people who helped to build it or were forced to work there to its first black First Family, the Obamas.Clarence Lusane juxtaposes significant events in White House history with the ongoing struggle for ... Read more

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  • Freedom’s Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)

    A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

    by Jefferson Cowie ...
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYAn "important, deeply affecting—and regrettably relevant" (New York Times) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government that got in their way.American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal ... Read more

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  • Howard Zinn on Race

    by Howard Zinn ...
    Howard Zinn on Race is Zinn’s choice of the shorter writings and speeches that best reflect his views on America’s most taboo topic. As chairman of the history department at all black women’s Spelman College, Zinn was an outspoken supporter of student activists in the nascent civil rights movement. In "The Southern Mystique," he tells of how he was asked to leave Spelman in 1963 after teaching ... 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

  • To Tell the Truth Freely

    The Life of Ida B. Wells

    by Mia Bay ...
    "Finally, we have a biography worthy of one of the bravest and most influential activists in U.S. history." ―Michael Kazin, author of What It Took to WinBorn to slaves in 1862, Ida B. Wells became a fearless anti-lynching crusader, women's rights advocate, and journalist. Wells's refusal to accept any compromise on racial inequality caused her to be labeled a "dangerous radical" in her day but ... Read more

    $12.99 USD