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  • Integration at Second Base

    Jackie Robinson and the Quest for Black Citizenship

    by Peter Eisenstadt ...
    Series series Carter G. Woodson Institute Series
    A new biography revealing the remarkable story of Jackie Robinson as a civil rights crusaderJackie Robinson is one of the most enduring icons of the great American pastime—the man who broke baseball’s color line in the twentieth century, opening the door for his fellow professionals and allowing rising generations to dream of fame and glory on the diamond. But for number 42, playing for the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Rochdale Village

    Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing

    by Peter Eisenstadt ...
    Series series American Institutions and Society
    From 1963 to 1965 roughly 6,000 families moved into Rochdale Village, at the time the world's largest housing cooperative, in southeastern Queens County. The moderate-income cooperative attracted families from a diverse background, white and black, to what was a predominantly black neighborhood. In its early years, Rochdale was widely hailed as one of the few successful large-scale efforts to ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Against the Hounds of Hell

    A Life of Howard Thurman

    by Peter Eisenstadt ...
    Series series The American South Series
    An inspiration to Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, and other leaders of the civil rights movement, Howard Thurman was a crucial figure in the history of African Americans in the 20th century. Until now, however, he has not received the biographical treatment he deserves. In Against the Hounds of Hell, Thurman scholar Peter Eisenstadt offers a fascinating exploration of the life of this ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Reconstruction beyond 150

    Reassessing the New Birth of Freedom

    by Arlisha Norwood, Mark Elliott, A. James Fuller, Nicolas Barreyre, Peter Wallenstein, Mari N. Crabtree, Troy D. Smith, Professor Don H. Doyle, PhD, David Moltke-Hansen, Krista Kinslow, J. Mills Thornton, Garry Bertholf, Marina Bilbija, Peter Eisenstadt, Lawrence T. McDonnell ...
    Series series A Nation Divided
    No period of United States history is more important and still less understood than Reconstruction. Now, at the sesquicentennial of the Reconstruction era, Vernon Burton and Brent Morris bring together the best new scholarship on the critical years after the Civil War and before the onset of Jim Crow, synthesizing social, political, economic, and cultural approaches to understanding this crucial ... Read more

    $31.09 USD

  • Lincoln’s Unfinished Work

    The New Birth of Freedom from Generation to Generation

    by Richard Carwardine, Joshua Casmir Catalano, Greg Downs, Eric Foner, william haller, J. William Harris, Stephen Kantrowitz, James Loewen, Lawrence McDonnell, Adrienne Petty, Briana Pocratsky, Jerald Podair, Mark Schultz, Randall Stephens, Rhondda Thomas, Gavin Wright ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    In his Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln promised that the nation’s sacrifices during the Civil War would lead to a “new birth of freedom.” Lincoln’s Unfinished Work analyzes how the United States has attempted to realize—or subvert—that promise over the past century and a half. The volume is not solely about Lincoln, or the immediate unfinished work of Reconstruction, or the broader unfinished ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Black Conservatism

    Essays in Intellectual and Political History

    Edited by Peter Eisenstadt ...
    Series series Crosscurrents in African American History
    This volume is the first comprehensive examination of African American conservative thought and politics from the late eighteenth century to the present. The essays in the collection explore various aspects of African American conservatism, including biographical studies of abolitionist James Forten, clergymen Henry McNeal Turner and J.H. Jackson, and activists A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Visions of a Better World

    Howard Thurman's Pilgrimage to India and the Origins of African American Nonviolence

    by Quinton Dixie, Peter Eisenstadt ...
    In 1935, at the height of his powers, Howard Thurman, one of the most influential African American religious thinkers of the twentieth century, took a pivotal trip to India that would forever change him—and that would ultimately shape the course of the civil rights movement in the United States.When Thurman (1899–1981) became the first African American to meet with Mahatma Gandhi, he found himself ... Read more

    $21.99 USD