First published in 1909, W.E.B. Du Bois's biography of abolitionist John Brown is a literary and historical classic. With a rare combination of scholarship and passion, Du Bois defends Brown against all detractors who saw him as a fanatic, fiend, or traitor. Brown emerges as a rich personality, fully understandable as an unusual leader with a deeply religious outlook and a devotion to the cause of freedom for the slave.
This new edition is enriched with an introduction by John David Smith and with supporting documents relating to Du Bois's correspondence with his publisher.
First published in 1909, W.E.B. Du Bois's biography of abolitionist John Brown is a literary and historical classic. With a rare combination of schola...
Celebrated as a classic work of historical literature, Life and Labor in the Old South (1929) represents the culmination of three decades of research and reflection on the social and economic systems of the antebellum South by the leading historian of African American slavery of the first half of the twentieth century. Life and Labor in the Old South represents both the strengths and weaknesses of first-rate scholarship by whites on the topics of antebellum African and African American slavery during the Jim Crow era. Deeply researched in primary sources, carefully focused on social and...
Celebrated as a classic work of historical literature, Life and Labor in the Old South (1929) represents the culmination of three decades of research ...
George W. Squier was one of thousands from Indiana who heeded Lincoln's call for volunteers at the onset of the Civil War. During his service, Squier wrote candid letters to his wife that yield details not often found in soldiers' writings to their families. 10 illustrations.
George W. Squier was one of thousands from Indiana who heeded Lincoln's call for volunteers at the onset of the Civil War. During his service, Squier ...
Ulrich Bonnell Phillips was the most prominent southern historian of the early 20th century. This anthology presents 26 essays and excerpts by recognized authorities who comment on Phillip's writings, his background and training, regional and racial prejudices, methodology, and the historical genres in which he worked.
Ulrich Bonnell Phillips was the most prominent southern historian of the early 20th century. This anthology presents 26 essays and excerpts by recogni...
John David Smith Thomas H. Appleton John David Smith
Utilizing biographical, demographic, political, social, and cultural approaches, the nine essays in this book provide a probing look at the South's diversity and its important place in the national past. The authors explore the tension between the South's well-worn mythic images and the diversity that bred such influential leaders as Philip Mazzei, Henry Clay, A. B. Happy Chandler, and John Sherman Cooper. The chapters illustrate the South's complexity in assessing the region's plain folk, slave panics, military strategy, racial reform, and temperance movement. The book untangles the...
Utilizing biographical, demographic, political, social, and cultural approaches, the nine essays in this book provide a probing look at the South's...
A leading proponent of racial equality in the United States during the second half of the nineteenth century, Albion W. Tourgee (1838--1905) served as the most articulate spokesman of the radical wing of the Republican party, and he continued to advocate for its egalitarian ideals long after Reconstruction ended. Undaunted Radical presents Tourgee's most significant letters, speeches, and essays from the commencement of Radical Reconstruction through the bleak days of the era of Jim Crow.
An Ohioan by birth, Tourgee served in the Union army and afterwards moved to North Carolina, where...
A leading proponent of racial equality in the United States during the second half of the nineteenth century, Albion W. Tourgee (1838--1905) served...
A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 (originally published in 1888) by pioneer African American historian George Washington Williams remains a classic text in African American literature and Civil War history. In this powerful narrative, Williams, who served in the U.S. Colored Troops, tells the battle experiences of the almost 200,000 black men who fought for the Union cause. Determined to document the contributions of his fellow black soldiers and to underscore the valor and manhood of his race, Williams gathered his material from the official records of U.S....
A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 (originally published in 1888) by pioneer African American historian George Washi...
Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1877--1934) established a reputation as one of the early twentieth century's foremost authorities on the history of African American slavery and the Old South. An empiricist, Phillips approached his subjects analytically and dispassionately, and his scholarship shaped historical investigation of the South for decades. Phillips was an empiricist and based his writing on an array of primary sources, including a growing collection of photographs he accumulated during his research. These images of plantation crops and machinery, agricultural scenes, distinctive...
Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1877--1934) established a reputation as one of the early twentieth century's foremost authorities on the history of African A...
