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  • Documenting American Violence

    A Sourcebook

    by Christopher Waldrep, Michael Bellesiles ...
    Violence forms a constant backdrop to American history, from the revolutionary overthrow of British rule, to the struggle for civil rights, to the present-day debates over the death penalty. It has served to challenge authority, defend privilege, advance causes, and throttle hopes. In the first anthology of its kind to appear in over thirty years, Documenting American Violence brings together ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Jury Discrimination

    The Supreme Court, Public Opinion, and a Grassroots Fight for Racial Equality in Mississippi

    by Christopher Waldrep ...
    In 1906 a white lawyer named Dabney Marshall argued a case before the Mississippi Supreme Court demanding the racial integration of juries. He carried out a plan devised by Mississippi’s foremost black lawyer of the time: Willis Mollison. Against staggering odds, and with the help of a friendly newspaper editor, he won. How Marshall and his allies were able to force the court to overturn state law ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Signposts

    New Directions in Southern Legal History

    by Alfred L. Brophy, Charles L. Zelden, Christopher Schmidt, Christopher Waldrep, Cynthia Nicoletti, Jennifer M. Spear, Jessica Lowe, Laura F. Edwards, Lisa Lindquist Dorr, Peter Wallenstein, Roman J. Hoyos0, Susan Richbourg Parker1, Thomas N. Ingersoll2, Tim Alan Garrison3, Sally E. Hadden5, Patricia Hagler Minter7, James W. Ely Jr.8 ...
    In Signposts, Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter have assembled seventeen essays, by both established and rising scholars, that showcase new directions in southern legal history across a wide range of topics, time periods, and locales. The essays will inspire today's scholars to dig even more deeply into the southern legal heritage, in much the same way that David Bodenhamer and James Ely ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Local Matters

    Race, Crime, and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century South

    by Ariela J. Gross, Judith Schafer, Laura F. Edwards, Lou Falkner Williams, Michael W. Fitzgerald, Sally E. Hadden, Timothy S. Huebner ...
    Series series Studies in the Legal History of the South
    Much of the current reassessment of race, culture, and criminal justice in the nineteenth-century South has been based on intensive community studies. Drawing on previously untapped sources, the nine original papers collected here represent some of the best new work on how racial justice can be shaped by the particulars of time and place.Although each essay is anchored in the local, several ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Swift to Wrath

    Lynching in Global Historical Perspective

    Edited by William D. Carrigan, Christopher Waldrep ...
    Scholarship on lynching has typically been confined to the extralegal execution of African Americans in the American South. The nine essays collected here look at lynching in the context of world history, encouraging a complete rethinking of the history of collective violence. Employing a diverse range of case studies, the volume’s contributors work to refute the notion that the various acts of ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Human Tradition in the New South

    by David L. Anderson, Paul K. Conkin, Cita Cook, S. Spencer Davis, Kathryn W. Kemp, William J. Marshall, John Ed Pearce, Rebecca Sharpless, Gerald L. Smith, Margaret Ripley Wolfe, John David Smith, Christopher Waldrep ...
    Series series The Human Tradition in America
    In The Human Tradition in the New South, historian James C. Klotter brings together twelve biographical essays that explore the region's political, economic, and social development since the Civil War. Like all books in this series, these essays chronicle the lives of ordinary Americans whose lives and contributions help to highlight the great transformations that occurred in the South.With ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by Allen C. Guelzo ...
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    Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosity, and a profound grasp of the fundamentals of democracy. Now, in Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction, the award-winning Lincoln authority Allen C. Guelzo offers a penetrating look into the mind of one of our greatest presidents. If Lincoln ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Failed Promise

    Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

    by Robert S. Levine ...
    Robert S. Levine foregrounds the viewpoints of Black Americans on Reconstruction in his absorbing account of the struggle between the great orator Frederick Douglass and President Andrew Johnson.When Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, the country was on the precipice of radical change. Johnson, seemingly more progressive than Lincoln, looked like the ideal ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Disunion!

    The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859

    by Elizabeth R. Varon ...
    Series series Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
    In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten their opponents. As Elizabeth Varon shows, “disunion” connoted the dissolution of the republic — the failure of the founders' effort to establish a stable and lasting representative government. For many Americans in both the North and the South, disunion was a nightmare, a ... Read more

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  • The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

    Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

    by Eric Foner ...
    “A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”—Boston GlobeSelected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln and the broader history of the period into perfect balance. We see ... Read more

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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

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  • Black Rednecks & White Liberals

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    This explosive new book challenges many of the long-prevailing assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans, about slavery, and about education. Plainly written, powerfully reasoned, and backed with a startling array of documented facts, Black Rednecks and White Liberals takes on not only the trendy intellectuals of our times but also such historic interpreters of American life as Alexis de ... Read more

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