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Slavery's Exiles

The Story of the American Maroons

by Sylviane A. Diouf
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014

Over more than two centuries men, women, and children escaped from slavery to make the Southern wilderness their home. They hid in the mountains of Virginia and the low swamps of South Carolina; they stayed in the neighborhood or paddled their way to secluded places; they buried themselves underground...

The Deepest South

The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade

by Gerald Horne
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007

During its heyday in the nineteenth century, the African slave trade was fueled by the close relationship of the United States and Brazil. The Deepest South tells the disturbing story of how U.S. nationals - before and after Emancipation -- continued to actively participate in this odious commerce...

A Rabble in Arms

Massachusetts Towns and Militiamen during King Philips War

by Kyle F. Zelner
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009

While it lasted only sixteen months, King Philip's War (1675-1676) was arguably one of the most significant of the colonial wars that wracked early America. As the first major military crisis to directly strike one of the Empire's most important possessions: the Massachusetts Bay Colony, King Philip's...

America Goes to War

A Social History of the Continental Army

by Charles Patrick Neimeyer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1995

One of the images Americans hold most dear is that of the drum-beating, fire-eating Yankee Doodle Dandy rebel, overpowering his British adversaries through sheer grit and determination. The myth of the classless, independence-minded farmer or hard-working artisan-turned-soldier is deeply ingrained...

A Grand Illusion?

An Essay on Europe

by Tony Judt
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011

“I am enthusiastically European; no informed person could seriously wish to return to the embattled, mutually antagonistic circle of suspicious and introverted nations that was the European continent in the quite recent past. But it is one thing to think an outcome desirable, quite another to...

Black Garden

Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War, 10th Year Anniversary Edition, Revised and Updated

by Thomas de Waal
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013

“Brilliant.”—Time 

Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry

From the Golden Age of Spain to Modern Times

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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005

Sephardic Jews trace their origins to Spain and Portugal. They enjoyed a renaissance in these lands until their expulsion from Spain in 1492, when they settled in the countries along the Mediterranean, throughout the Ottoman Empire, in the Balkans, and in the lands of North Africa, Italy, Egypt, Palestine,...

The Racial Middle

Latinos and Asian Americans Living Beyond the Racial Divide

by Eileen O’Brien
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008

The divide over race is usually framed as one over Black and White. Sociologist Eileen O’Brien is interested in that middle terrain, what sits in the ever-increasing gray area she dubbed the racial middle. The Racial Middle, tells the story of the other racial and ethnic groups in America, mainly...

God's New Whiz Kids?

Korean American Evangelicals on Campus

by Rebecca Y. Kim
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006

In the past twenty years, many traditionally white campus religious groups have become Asian American. Today there are more than fifty evangelical Christian groups at UC Berkeley and UCLA alone, and 80% of their members are Asian American. At Harvard, Asian Americans constitute 70% of the Harvard...

Crown of Thorns

Political Martyrdom in America From Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King, Jr.

by Eyal J. Naveh
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1990

"A provocative treatment of political martyrdom in the United States . . . . a well-crafted, thought-provoking book." -The Lincoln Herald "In the U.S., dead politicians and controversial reformers have frequently been called martyrs to a cause. But achieving martyrdom is more elusive...

Bronx Tales

Stories of Public Art, Architecture, and Urban Renewal

by Constance Rosenblum
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014

In these vignettes of life along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, the New York Times’s Constance Rosenblum examines the place of art in this community— its installation, its reception by local residents, and the debates that often surround it. From the growing popularity of European-style Art...

The Turning

A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War

by Andrew E. Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1999

The anti-Vietnam War movement in the United States is perhaps best remembered for its young, counterculture student protesters. However, the Vietnam War was the first conflict in American history in which a substantial number of military personnel actively protested the war while it was in progress. In...

William M. Kunstler

The Most Hated Lawyer in America

by David J. Langum
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999

Alternately vilified as a publicity-seeking egoist and lauded as a rambunctious, fearless advocate, William Kunstler consistently embodied both of these qualities. Kunstler's unrelenting, radical critique of American racism and the legal system took shape as a result of his efforts to enlist the federal...

The Paranoid Apocalypse

A Hundred-Year Retrospective on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

by Steven T. Katz
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, first published in Russia around 1905, claimed to be the captured secret protocols from the first Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897 describing a plan by the Jewish people to achieve global domination. While the document has been proven to be fake, much of it plagiarized...
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