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  • Remembering Jim Crow

    African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South

    This “viscerally powerful . . . compilation of firsthand accounts of the Jim Crow era” won the Lillian Smith Book Award and the Carey McWilliams Award (Publisher’s Weekly, starred review).Based on interviews collected by the Behind the Veil Oral History Project at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, this remarkable book presents for the first time the most extensive oral history ever ... Leer más

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  • Lifting the Chains

    The Black Freedom Struggle Since Reconstruction

    All-Black institutions and local community groups have been at the forefront of the freedom struggle since the beginning. Lifting the Chains is a history of the Black experience in America since the Civil War, told by one of our most distinguished historians of modern America, William H. Chafe. He argues that, despite the wishes and arguments of many whites to the contrary, the struggle for ... Leer más

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  • Bill and Hillary

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    In Bill and Hillary: The Politics of the Personal, the distinguished historian William H. Chafe boldly argues that the trajectory of the Clintons' political lives can be understood only through the prism of their personal relationship. Each experienced a difficult childhood. Bill had an abusive stepfather, and his mother was in denial about the family's pathology. He believed that his success as a ... Leer más

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    Lifting the Chains

    The Black Freedom Struggle Since Reconstruction

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    Lifting the Chains is a history of the Black experience in America since the Civil War, told by one of our most distinguished historians of modern America, William H. Chafe. He argues that, despite the wishes and arguments of many whites to the contrary, the struggle for freedom hasbeen carried out primarily by BlackAmericans, with only occasional assistance from whites. Chafe highlights the role ... Leer más

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  • My Vanishing Country

    A Memoir

    New York Times Bestseller: This insightful and deeply personal portrait of African American working-class life "offers something so authentic . . . compelling" ( Charleston Post and Courier).Part memoir, part historical and cultural analysis, My Vanishing Country is an eye-opening journey through the South's past, present, and future.Anchored in Bakari Sellers' hometown of Denmark, South Carolina, ... Leer más

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  • Churchill's Hellraisers

    The Thrilling Secret WW2 Mission to Storm a Forbidden Nazi Fortress

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    From award-winning war reporter Damien Lewis, the untold story of the heroic hellraisers who stormed a Nazi fortress—in one of the most daring raids of World War II . . .Winter, 1944. Allied forces have liberated most of Axis-occupied Italy—with one crucial exception: the Nazi headquarters north of the Gothic Line. Heavily guarded and surrounded by rugged terrain, the mountain fortress is nearly ... Leer más

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    The Birmingham Church Bombing That Changed the Course of Civil Rights

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  • Call Them by Their True Names

    American Crises (and Essays)

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