Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era 1469606429, 9781469606422

American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era 9780674062702

Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, a century after the signing of the Emancipation Procla

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Journal of the Civil War Era 9780807852606

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The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the Civil War through World War II 9780674030268

Focusing on American literature from the Civil War, World War I, and World War II, Dawes develops two primary questions:

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South Reports the Civil War 9781400872541

For the newspaper profession the problems confronted in reporting the Civil War were as catalytic as the war itself was

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Schooling the Movement: The Activism of Southern Black Educators from Reconstruction through the Civil Rights Era 1643363743, 9781643363745

A fresh examination of teacher activism during the civil rights movement Southern Black educators were central contribu

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Washington Brotherhood: Politics, Social Life, and the Coming of the Civil War (Civil War America) [Illustrated] 1469626500, 9781469626505

Traditional portrayals of politicians in antebellum Washington, D.C., describe a violent and divisive society, full of a

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Congress and the First Civil Rights Era, 1861-1918 9780226756530

Civil rights legislation figured prominently in the agenda of Congress during the Civil War and Reconstruction. But as R

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Contraband Guides: Race, Transatlantic Culture, and the Arts in the Civil War Era 9780271088228

In his best-selling travel memoir, The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain punningly refers to the black man who introduces him

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Black Political Organizations in the Post-Civil Rights Era 9780813547015

We know a great deal about civil rights organizations during the 1960s, but relatively little about black political orga

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Freedom to Differ: The Shaping of the Gay and Lesbian Struggle for Civil Rights 9780814759714

Many of us have grown up with the language of civil rights, yet rarely consider how the construction of civil rights cla

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