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  • Tell the Court I Love My Wife

    Race, Marriage, and Law—An American History

    by Peter Wallenstein ...
    The first in-depth history of miscegenation law in the United States, this book illustrates in vivid detail how states, communities, and the courts have defined and regulated mixed-race marriage from the colonial period to the present. Combining a storyteller's detail with a historian's analysis, Peter Wallenstein brings the sagas of Richard and Mildred Loving and countless other interracial ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • IN SEARCH OF AMERICA

    by Peter Wallenstein ...
    What were they thinking? And what happened next? Come on a brisk trek through US history, from past to present, from 1860 to 2025. IN SEARCH OF AMERICA: A NEW HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 1860-2025 introduces many dozens of individuals and the things they did to change the course of history in their communities, across the US, even around the worldScenes and people include D-Day at Normandy. A ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Race, Sex, and the Freedom to Marry

    Loving v. Virginia

    by Peter Wallenstein ...
    Series series Landmark Law Cases and American Society
    In 1958 Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving, two young lovers from Caroline County, Virginia, got married. Soon they were hauled out of their bedroom in the middle of the night and taken to jail. Their crime? Loving was white, Jeter was not, and in Virginia—as in twenty-three other states then—interracial marriage was illegal. Their experience reflected that of countless couples across America since ... Read more

    $25.19 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

    $31.99 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

  • Blue Laws and Black Codes

    Conflict, Courts, and Change in Twentieth-Century Virginia

    by Peter Wallenstein ...
    Women were once excluded everywhere from the legal profession, but by the 1990s the Virginia Supreme Court had three women among its seven justices. This is just one example of how law in Virginia has been transformed over the past century, as it has across the South and throughout the nation.In Blue Laws and Black Codes, Peter Wallenstein shows that laws were often changed not through legislative ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • The Folly of Jim Crow

    Rethinking the Segregated South

    by Natalie J. Ring, Melissa Stein, Theda Perdue, Peter Wallenstein, Mia Bay, Jane Dailey ...
    Series Book 43 - Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press
    Although the origins, application, and socio-historical implications of the Jim Crow system have been studied and debated for at least the last three-quarters of a century, nuanced understanding of this complex cultural construct is still evolving, according to Stephanie Cole and Natalie J. Ring, coeditors of The Folly of Jim Crow: Rethinking the Segregated South. Indeed, they suggest, scholars ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Brown v. Board of Education

    A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy

    by James T. Patterson ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in May 1954, the ruling that struck down state-sponsored racial segregation in America's public schools. Thurgood Marshall, chief attorney for the black families that launched the litigation, exclaimed later, "I was so happy, I was numb." The novelist Ralph Ellison wrote, "another ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Journalism and Jim Crow

    White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America

    by Kathy Roberts Forde, Sid Bedingfield, Bryan Bowman, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Kristin L. Gustafson, D'Weston Haywood, Blair LM Kelley, Razvan Sibii0, Robert Greene II1 ...
    Series series The History of Media and Communication
    Winner of the American Historical Association’s 2022 Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize.White publishers and editors used their newspapers to build, nurture, and protect white supremacy across the South in the decades after the Civil War. At the same time, a vibrant Black press fought to disrupt these efforts and force the United States to live up to its democratic idea... ... Read more

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  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Race and Inequality in Jim Crow America

    by WilliamJames Hull Hoffer ...
    Series series Landmark Law Cases and American Society
    Six decades before Rosa Parks boarded her fateful bus, another traveler in the Deep South tried to strike a blow against racial discrimination—but ultimately fell short of that goal, leading to the Supreme Court’s landmark 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson. Now Williamjames Hull Hoffer vividly details the origins, litigation, opinions, and aftermath of this notorious case.In response to the ... Read more

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  • Stamped from the Beginning

    The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

    by Ibram X. Kendi ...
    A National Book Award winnerThe New York Times bestselling history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.**“An engrossing and relentless intellectual history of prejudice in America.” -**Washington PostSome Americans insist that we’re living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America—... ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • How the Irish Became White

    by Noel Ignatiev ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    '…from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called ‘path breaking,’ ‘seminal,’ ‘essential,’ a ‘must read.’ How the Irish Became White is such a study.' John Bracey, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachussetts, AmherstThe Irish came to America in the eighteenth century, fleeing a homeland under foreign occupation and a caste system that regarded ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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