Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)
Title | Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois) PDF eBook |
Author | W. E. B. Du Bois |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 1134 |
Release | 2014-02-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 019938567X |
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, including the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. Du Bois was also a prolific author of novels, autobiographical accounts, innumerable editorials and journalistic pieces, and several works of history. Black Reconstruction in America tells and interprets the story of the twenty years of Reconstruction from the point of view of newly liberated African Americans. Though lambasted by critics at the time of its publication in 1935, Black Reconstruction has only grown in historical and literary importance. In the 1960s it joined the canon of the most influential revisionist historical works. Its greatest achievement is weaving a credible, lyrical historical narrative of the hostile and politically fraught years of 1860-1880 with a powerful critical analysis of the harmful effects of democracy, including Jim Crow laws and other injustices. With a series introduction by editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and an introduction by David Levering Lewis, this edition is essential for anyone interested in African American history.
The American and English Annotated Cases
Title | The American and English Annotated Cases PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1486 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | Law |
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Annotated Cases, American and English
Title | Annotated Cases, American and English PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1292 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | Law |
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American and English Annotated Cases
Title | American and English Annotated Cases PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1380 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
American Annotated Cases
Title | American Annotated Cases PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1384 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | Law reports, digests, etc |
ISBN |
Profiles in Courage
Title | Profiles in Courage PDF eBook |
Author | John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1992 |
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Behold, America
Title | Behold, America PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Churchwell |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2018-10-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1541673425 |
A Smithsonian Magazine Best History Book of 2018 The unknown history of two ideas crucial to the struggle over what America stands for In Behold, America, Sarah Churchwell offers a surprising account of twentieth-century Americans' fierce battle for the nation's soul. It follows the stories of two phrases--the "American dream" and "America First"--that once embodied opposing visions for America. Starting as a Republican motto before becoming a hugely influential isolationist slogan during World War I, America First was always closely linked with authoritarianism and white supremacy. The American dream, meanwhile, initially represented a broad vision of democratic and economic equality. Churchwell traces these notions through the 1920s boom, the Depression, and the rise of fascism at home and abroad, laying bare the persistent appeal of demagoguery in America and showing us how it was resisted. At a time when many ask what America's future holds, Behold, America is a revelatory, unvarnished portrait of where we have been.