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White Evangelical Racism
The Politics of Morality in America
Häftad, 2024
176 kr
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The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals play a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chronicle of American religion and politics, Anthea Butler argues that racism is at the core of …
New History of the American South
Inbunden, 2023
495 kr
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For at least two centuries, the South's economy, politics, religion, race relations, fiction, music, foodways and more have figured prominently in nearly all facets of American life. In A New History of the American South, W. Fitzhugh Brundage joins a stellar group of accomplished historians in …
Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination
An Artist's Reckoning with the South
Inbunden, 2022
500 kr
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Romare Bearden (1911–1988), one of the most prolific, original, and acclaimed American artists of the twentieth century, richly depicted scenes and figures rooted in the American South and the Black experience. Bearden hailed from North Carolina but was forced to relocate to the North when a white …
Passion Plays
How Religion Shaped Sports in North America
Inbunden, 2022
302 kr
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Randall Balmer was a late convert to sports talk radio, but he quickly became addicted, just like millions of other devoted American sports fans. As a historian of religion, the more he listened, Balmer couldn't help but wonder how the fervor he heard related to religious practice. Houses of …
Country Capitalism
How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and the Planet
Av Bart Elmore
Inbunden, 2023
340 kr
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The rural roads that led to our planet-changing global economy ran through the American South. That region's impact on the interconnected histories of business and ecological change is narrated here by acclaimed scholar Bart Elmore, who uses the histories of five southern firms—Coca-Cola, Delta …
Vice President's Black Wife
The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
Inbunden, 2023
358 kr
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Award-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796–1833), the enslaved mixed-race wife of Richard Mentor Johnson, owner of Blue Spring Farm, veteran of the War of 1812, and US vice president under Martin Van …
Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived
The Surprising Story of Apples in the South
Av Diane Flynt
Inbunden, 2023
391 kr
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For anyone who's ever picked an apple fresh from the tree or enjoyed a glass of cider, writer and orchardist Diane Flynt offers a new history of the apple and how it changed the South and the nation. Showing how southerners cultivated over 2,000 apple varieties from Virginia to Mississippi, Flynt …
Vote Collectors
The True Story of the Scamsters, Politicians, and Preachers Behind the Nation's Greatest Electoral Fraud
Av Michael Graff, Nick Ochsner
Häftad, 2024
285 kr
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In November 2018, Baptist preacher Mark Harris beat the odds, narrowly fending off a blue wave in the sprawling Ninth District of North Carolina. But word soon got around that something fishy was going on in rural Bladen County. At the center of the mess was a local political operative named McCrae …
Freedom Was in Sight
A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region
Av Kate Masur
Häftad, 2024
268 kr
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The Reconstruction era was born from the tumult and violence of the Civil War and delivered the most powerful changes the United States had seen since its founding. Black Americans in Washington, D.C., and its surrounding region were at the heart of these transformations, bravely working to reunite …
Sabor Judío
The Jewish Mexican Cookbook
Av Ilan Stavans, Margaret E. Boyle
Inbunden, 2024
436 kr
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Sabor Judio celebrates the delicious fusion of two culinary traditions: Jewish and Mexican. Written with joy and verve, Ilan Stavans and Margaret Boyle's lavishly illustrated cookbook demonstrates how cooking and eating connect the Jewish-Mexicans across places and generations. Featuring one …
Freedom Was in Sight
A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region
Av Kate Masur
Inbunden, 2024
529 kr
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The Reconstruction era was born from the tumult and violence of the Civil War and delivered the most powerful changes the United States had seen since its founding. Black Americans in Washington, D.C., and its surrounding region were at the heart of these transformations, bravely working to reunite …
Intrepid Girls
The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA
Inbunden, 2025
391 kr
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When eight-year-old Amy Erdman Farrell moved with her family to Akron, Ohio, in 1972, she found herself adrift in a sea of taunting boys and mean girls. Shy by nature, she dreaded her long, unhappy days at school. But a few years later, Farrell found an escape from bullying, the promise of …
Legend of Wyatt Outlaw
From Reconstruction Through Black Lives Matter
Av Sylvester Allen, Belle Boggs
Inbunden, 2026
355 kr
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Wyatt Outlaw’s story was one of Black success: He was a Union League leader, business owner, and the first Black town constable and commissioner in Graham, a small town located in North Carolina’s Alamance County. But in 1870, Outlaw was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan, setting off a dramatic series …
Vice President's Black Wife
The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
Häftad, 2025
268 kr
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Award-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1779 – 1833), the enslaved wife of Richard Mentor Johnson, owner of Blue Spring Farm, veteran of the War of 1812, and US vice president under Martin Van Buren. …
No Common Ground
Confederate Monuments and the Fight for Racial Justice
Av Karen L. Cox
Häftad, 2026
198 kr
Kommande
When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Debates over their meaning have sparked legislative battles, courtroom fights, and public protests that sometimes turn destructive. These conflicts have persisted for over a century, but never with today’s intensity. In No Common …
Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived
The Surprising Story of Apples in the South
Av Diane Flynt
Häftad, 2026
340 kr
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For anyone who’s ever picked an apple fresh from the tree or enjoyed a glass of cider, writer and orchardist Diane Flynt offers a new history of the apple and how it changed the South and the nation. Showing how southerners cultivated over 2,000 apple varieties from Virginia to Mississippi, Flynt …
Mosby
The Life of a Rebel Among Rebels
Inbunden, 2027
423 kr
Kommande
When the Civil War ended in 1865, Unionists ranked John S. Mosby among the most reviled of all Confederates. As colonel of the 43rd Battalion Virginia Cavalry, a partisan unit better known as Mosby’s Rangers, he led daring raids that frustrated Union forces in northern Virginia and grabbed …
New History of the American South
Häftad, 2027
309 kr
Kommande
For at least two centuries, the South’s economy, politics, religion, race relations, fiction, music, foodways and more have figured prominently in nearly all facets of American life. In A New History of the American South, W. Fitzhugh Brundage joins a stellar group of accomplished historians in …
Country Capitalism
How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and the Planet
Av Bart Elmore
Häftad, 2027
309 kr
Kommande
The rural roads that led to our planet-changing global economy ran through the American South. That region’s impact on the interconnected histories of business and ecological change is narrated here by acclaimed scholar Bart Elmore, who uses the histories of five southern firms—Coca-Cola, Delta …
Vote Collectors
The True Story of the Scamsters, Politicians, and Preachers Behind the Nation's Greatest Electoral Fraud
Av Michael Graff, Nick Ochsner
Inbunden, 2021
326 kr
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In November 2018, Baptist preacher Mark Harris beat the odds, narrowly fending off a blue wave in the sprawling Ninth District of North Carolina. But word soon got around that something fishy was going on in rural Bladen County. At the center of the mess was a local political operative named McCrae …
