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  • Firsthand Louisiana

    Primary Sources in the History of the State

    Edited by Janet Allured, John Keeling, Michael Martin ...
    Firsthand Louisiana: Primary Sources in the History of the State brings to its readers a companion to the study of Louisiana's history. Compiled for the first time in a single book, the dozens of important, interesting, devastating, and entertaining firsthand accounts cover Louisiana's history from 1682, when Sieur de La Salle claimed the land for the French, up through recent controversies over ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Southern Methodist Women and Social Justice

    Interracial Activism in the Long Twentieth Century

    Edited by Janet Allured, M. Kathryn Armistead ...
    Series series Southern Dissent
    Highlighting the contributions of Methodist women in advocating for progressive reform from 1900 to the presentThis book tells the stories of nine southern Methodist women, who, inspired by their faith, carried forward the spirit of progressivism. They fought for racial equality, challenged white male supremacy, and addressed class oppression. The white and Black women featured here responded to ... Read more

    $85.49 USD

  • Louisiana Legacies

    Readings in the History of the Pelican State

    by Janet Allured, Michael S. Martin ...
    Showcasing the colorful, even raucous, political, social, and unique cultural qualities of Louisiana history, this new collection of essays features the finest and latest scholarship.Includes readings featuring recent scholarship that expand on traditional historical accountsIncludes material on every region of LouisianaCovers a wide range of fields, including social, environmental, and economic ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • Remapping Second-Wave Feminism

    The Long Women's Rights Movement in Louisiana, 1950–1997

    by Janet Allured ...
    Scholars of second-wave feminism often center their research on northern thought and political activity and usually overlook the vibrant pockets of activism that existed elsewhere. In Remapping Second-Wave Feminism, Janet Allured attempts to reshape the national narrative by focusing on the grassroots women’s movement in the South, particularly in Louisiana.This book delves into unexplored origins ... Read more

    $63.89 USD

  • Louisiana Women

    Their Lives and Times, Volume 2

    by Shannon Frystak, Mary Farmer-Kaiser, Janet Allured, Court Carney, Emily Clark, Mark Duvall, Emily Epstein Landau, Hellen Lee, Leslie Gale Parr0, Giselle Roberts1, Lee Sartain2, Sara Brooks Sundberg3, Tania Tetlow4, Susan Tucker5, Michael Wade6, Carolyn E. Ware7, Beth Willinger8, Mary Wilson9, Brittney Cooper0, Lucy Gutman1 ...
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    Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, volume 2, highlights the significant historical contributions of some of Louisiana’s most noteworthy and also overlooked women from the eighteenth century to the present. This volume underscores the cultural, social, and political distinctiveness of the state as well as showcases the actions and activities of women who greatly affected the history of ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

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    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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  • Four Hundred Souls

    A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

    Edited by Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present—edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire.FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post, Town & Country, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • West Virginia

    by John Alexander Williams ...
    John Alexander Williams's West Virginia: A History is widely considered one of the finest books ever written about the state.In his clear, eminently readable style, Williams organizes the tangled strands of West Virginia's past around a few dramatic events—the battle of Point Pleasant, John Brown's insurrection in Harper's Ferry, the Paint Creek labor movement, the Hawk's Nest and Buffalo Creek ... Read more

    $15.69 USD

  • Louisiana

    A History

    by Light Townsend Cummins, Judith Kelleher Schafer, Edward F. Haas, Michael L. Kurtz ...
    Covering the lively, even raucous, history of Louisiana from before First Contact through the Elections of 2012, this sixth edition of the classic Louisiana history survey provides an engaging and comprehensive narrative of what is arguably America’s most colorful state.Since the appearance of the first edition of this classic text in 1984, Louisiana: A History has remained the best-loved and most ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • For the Common Good

    A New History of Higher Education in America

    by Charles Dorn ...
    Series series American Institutions and Society
    Are colleges and universities in a period of unprecedented disruption? Is a bachelor's degree still worth the investment? Are the humanities coming to an end? What, exactly, is higher education good for?In For the Common Good, Charles Dorn challenges the rhetoric of America's so-called crisis in higher education by investigating two centuries of college and university history. From the community ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Louisiana

    by Joe Gray Taylor ...
    From the earliest colonists through the latest Mardi Gras, Louisiana has had a history as exotic as that of any state. Even its political corruption--extending from French governors for whom office was exploitable property through the "Louisiana Hayride" following the death of Huey Long--seems to have had a glamorous side.Handing the colony of Louisiana back and forth between their empires, the ... Read more

    $15.69 USD

  • Inequity in Education

    A Historical Perspective

    Edited by Debra Meyers, Burke Miller ...
    Inequity in Education represents the latest scholarship investigating issues of race, class, ethnicity, religion, gender, and national identity formation that influenced education in America throughout its history. Targeting sophisticated undergraduates along with graduate students and specialists, this exciting new collection will capitalize on the growing interest in the historical foundations ... Read more

    $109.39 USD