John Gould Fletcher Lucas Carpenter Harry S. Ashmore
Like a well-planned time capsule, "Arkansas" is a fascinating picture of the state s evolution: from a wilderness explored by Hernando de Soto to a rowdy and often lawless frontier, a partner in the shameful dislocation of Native Americans, a state in the Confederacy, a source of homegrown populists, and always a land of opportunity.
As Harry S. Ashmore states in his introduction to this third volume of the John Gould Fletcher Series, "Arkansas" still stands up as its author intended, a poet s imaginative treatment of a history both tragic and comic with its deep legendary roots going...
Like a well-planned time capsule, "Arkansas" is a fascinating picture of the state s evolution: from a wilderness explored by Hernando de Soto to a...
Civil Rights and Wrongs is a powerful and important reappraisal of the American racial dilemma by a uniquely qualified observer and sometime participant who viewed it from the eye of the political storm that it spawned. In this revised edition, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and editor Harry S. Ashmore assesses the ideological impasses that limited Bill Clinton's effort to reinstate activist government in Washington and offers a penetrating analysis of the 1996 election.
Civil Rights and Wrongs is a powerful and important reappraisal of the American racial dilemma by a uniquely qualified observer and sometime participa...
This book provides an impartial look at the whole picture of biracial education in the United States. It is also a history of segregation in education in the United States and the story of the South's effort to equalize educational opportunities for white and black children.
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This book provides an impartial look at the whole picture of biracial education in the United States. It is also a history of segregation in education...
