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  • Avenue Breakdown

    Black Music and the Recording Industry in Shreveport

    by John M. Shaw ...
    Series series American Made Music Series
    Avenue Breakdown: Black Music and the Recording Industry in Shreveport uncovers the rich yet often overlooked legacy of Black music in Shreveport, Louisiana—a city better known for country tunes and the Louisiana Hayride. This compelling history shines a spotlight on the city’s vibrant postwar scene, where blues, R&B, jazz, soul, funk, and gospel thrived in Black neighborhoods despite the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Cambodian Campaign

    The 1970 Offensive and America's Vietnam War

    by John M. Shaw ...
    Series series Modern War Studies
    Winner: Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing AwardWhen American and South Vietnamese forces, led by General Creighton Abrams, launched an attack into neutral Cambodia in 1970, the invasion ignited a firestorm of violent antiwar protests throughout the United States, dealing yet another blow to Nixon's troubled presidency. But, as John Shaw shows, the campaign also proved to be a major ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Following the Drums

    African American Fife and Drum Music in Tennessee

    by John M. Shaw ...
    Series series American Made Music Series
    Following the Drums: African American Fife and Drum Music in Tennessee is an epic history of a little-known African American instrumental music form. John M. Shaw follows the music from its roots in West Africa and early American militia drumming to its prominence in African American communities during the time of Reconstruction, both as a rallying tool for political militancy and a community ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Slavery by Another Name (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

    by Douglas A. Blackmon ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • This groundbreaking historical expose unearths the lost stories of enslaved persons and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude shortly thereafter in “The Age of Neoslavery.”By turns moving, sobering, and shocking, this unprecedented Pulitzer Prize-winning account reveals the ... Read more

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  • The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation

    Stories of My Family's Journey to Freedom

    by John Baker ...
    When John F. Baker Jr. was in the seventh grade, he saw a photograph of four former slaves in his social studies textbook—two of them were his grandmother's grandparents. He began the lifelong research project that would become The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation, the fruit of more than thirty years of archival and field research and DNA testing spanning 250 years.A descendant of Wessyngton ... Read more

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  • Signing Their Lives Away

    The Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence

    by Denise Kiernan, Joseph D'Agnese ...
    Signing Their Lives Away introduces readers to the eclectic group of statesmen, soldiers, slaveholders, and scoundrels who signed this historic document—and the many strange fates that awaited them. Some prospered and rose to the highest levels of United States government, while others had their homes and farms seized by British soldiers. Signer George Wythe was poisoned by his nephew; Button ... Read more

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  • Blood at the Root

    A Racial Cleansing in America

    by Patrick Phillips ...
    "[A] vital investigation of Forsyth’s history, and of the process by which racial injustice is perpetuated in America." —U.S. Congressman John LewisForsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century, was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children. But then in September of 1912, three young ... Read more

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  • Delphi Complete Works of Ida B. Wells Illustrated

    by Ida B. Wells ...
    Series Book 10 - Delphi Series Fifteen
    A Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and civil rights campaigner, Ida B. Wells led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. She dedicated her career to combating prejudice and violence, advocating for African-American equality, especially for women. She was a diligent and resourceful researcher, whose important work exposed the true horrors and injustices ... Read more

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  • They Called Themselves the K.K.K.

    The Birth of an American Terrorist Group

    by Susan Campbell Bartoletti ...
    *Boys, let us get up a club.*With those words, six restless young men raided the linens at a friend’s mansion, pulled pillowcases over their heads, hopped on horses, and cavorted through the streets of Pulaski, Tennessee in 1866. The six friends named their club the Ku Klux Klan, and, all too quickly, their club grew into the self-proclaimed Invisible Empire with secret dens spread across the ... Read more

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  • The Year of the Century, 1876

    by Dee Brown ...
    An in-depth exploration of a momentous year in American history from the #1 New York Times –bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee .In 1876, America was eager to celebrate its centenary but questioned what might lie ahead. The American Republic had grown to four times its original population, and was in the midst of enormous changes. Industrialization was booming, a... ... Read more

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  • The Invisible Line

    A Secret History of Race in America

    by Daniel J. Sharfstein ...
    "The Invisible Line" shines light on one of the most important, but too often hidden, aspects of American history and culture. Sharfstein's narrative of three families negotiating America's punishing racial terrain is a must read for all who are interested in the construction of race in the United States."--Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hemingses of MonticelloIn America ... Read more

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  • Freedom by Any Means

    Con Games, Voodoo Schemes, True Love and Lawsuits on the Underground Railroad

    by Betty DeRamus ...
    Following up Betty DeRamus’s Essence bestselling Forbidden Fruit, Freedom by Any Means follows the story of extraordinary acts of courage and love by Blacks in the American slave era with beautifully written and inspiring stories of how slaves used the law**—against all odds—**to gain freedom for themselv... ... Read more

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