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  • A Victory for Democracy

    NAACP v. Alabama and Freedom of Association

    by Charles W. Eagles ...
    In 1956, six months after the start of the Montgomery bus boycott, Alabama Attorney General John Patterson obtained from state circuit court judge Walter B. Jones, an ardent defender of segregation, an order banning the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). On appeal, the case led to the U.S. Supreme Court's declaration of the new constitutional right to freedom of ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Price of Defiance

    James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss

    by Charles W. Eagles ...
    When James Meredith enrolled as the first African American student at the University of Mississippi in 1962, the resulting riots produced more casualties than any other clash of the civil rights era. Eagles shows that the violence resulted from the university's and the state's long defiance of the civil rights movement and federal law. Ultimately, the price of such behavior--the price of defiance- ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Civil Rights, Culture Wars

    The Fight over a Mississippi Textbook

    by Charles W. Eagles ...
    Just as Mississippi whites in the 1950s and 1960s had fought to maintain school segregation, they battled in the 1970s to control the school curriculum. Educators faced a crucial choice between continuing to teach a white supremacist view of history or offering students a more enlightened multiracial view of their state’s past. In 1974, when Random House’s Pantheon Books published Mississippi: ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Mind of the South

    Fifty Years Later

    Edited by Charles W. Eagles ...
    Series series Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History Series
    This probing collection of essays assesses the wide influence of W. J. Cash and the profound effect of his classic dissection of southern history.Perhaps more than any other historian, W. J. Cash revolutionized the interpretation of southern identity. In 1941, when he published The Mind of the South, he exploded the correlated myths of the Cavalier South and the New South and gave historiography a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Civil Rights Movement in America

    Edited by Charles W. Eagles ...
    Series series Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History Series
    With essays and commentaries by David Levering Lewis, Clayborne Carson, Steven F. Lawson, Nancy J. Weiss, David J. Garrow, John Dittmer, Neil R. McMillen, Charles V. Hamilton, Mark V. Tushnet, William H. Chafe, and J. Mills Thornton IIIThe Civil Rights Movement warrants continuing and extensive examination. The six papers in this collection, each supplemented by a follow-up assessment, contribute ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Civil Rights Movement in America

    Edited by Charles W. Eagles ...
    The Civil Rights Movement warrants continuing and extensive examination. The six papers in this collection, each supplemented by a follow-up assessment, contribute to a clearer perception of what caused and motivated the movement, of how it functioned, of the changes that occurred within it, and of its accomplishments and shortcomings. Its profound effect upon modern America has so greatly changed ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement

    by Tomiko Brown-Nagin ...
    In this Bancroft Prize-winning history of the Civil Rights movement in Atlanta from the end of World War II to 1980, Tomiko Brown-Nagin shows that long before "black power" emerged and gave black dissent from the mainstream civil rights agenda a name, African Americans in Atlanta questioned the meaning of equality and the steps necessary to obtain a share of the American dream. This groundbreaking ... Read more

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  • We the People

    A History of the U.S. Constitution

    by Jill Lepore ...
    **WINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORYONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2025NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, New Yorker, Smithsonian, Bookpage, and the Chicago Public LibraryLonglisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction"[Lepore's] 15th book, <em... ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

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  • Myth America

    Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

    by Kevin M. Kruse, Julian E. Zelizer ...
    **In this instant New York Times bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our nation’s past“Outstanding… Wonderfully accessible.” —Washington Post**The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative media have led large numbers of Americans to believe in fictions over facts, making ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • When Affirmative Action Was White

    An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America

    by Ira Katznelson ...
    A groundbreaking work that exposes the twisted origins of affirmative action.In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century American history and demonstrates that all the key programs passed during the New Deal and Fair Deal era of the 1930s and 1940s were created in a deeply discriminatory manner. Through ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

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  • We the Corporations

    How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

    by Adam Winkler ...
    National Book Award for Nonfiction FinalistNational Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction FinalistA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Washington Post Notable Book of the YearA PBS “Now Read This” Book Club SelectionNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by the Economist and the Boston GlobeA landmark exposé and “deeply engaging legal history” of one of the most successful, yet... ... Read more

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  • The Struggle for Black Equality

    by Harvard Sitkoff ...
    The Struggle for Black Equality is a dramatic, memorable history of the civil rights movement. Harvard Sitkoff offers both a brilliant interpretation of the personalities and dynamics of civil rights organizations and a compelling analysis of the continuing problems plaguing many African Americans. With a new foreword and afterword, and an up-to-date bibliography, this anniversary edition ... Read more

    $12.99 USD