Song of the South! Poetry and History        Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (The Fred W. Morrison Series ...16 reviews Drew Gilpin Faust The University of North Carolina Press, 2004 Southern Elite White Women's World Turned Upside Down + An Interesting Read + The Secret Lives of Southern Women Mothers of Invention is a book by Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust (historian), who was appointed President of Harvard University in February 2007. This book is an excellent adjunct to any college level class on the Civil War period. Faust researched the letters, diaries and journals of 500 elite southern ...             Arguing about Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress4 reviews William Lee Miller Knopf, 1996 a revelation + It surpassed all expectations + One of the best American History books I've read this yr + An enaging work on an important period of American history.             The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 192117 reviews Tim Madigan St. Martin's Griffin, 2003 EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG? + An unknown massacre in American history. + Balancing History & Narrative + Tulsa's Nightmare             The Mississippi Chinese : Between Black and White, Second Edition James W. Loewen Waveland Press, 1988 This scholarly, carefully researched book studies one of the most overlooked minority groups in America--the Chinese of the Mississippi Delta. During Reconstruction, white plantation owners imported Chinese sharecroppers in the hope of replacing their black laborers. In the beginning they were classed with blacks. But the Chinese soon moved into the towns and became, almost without exception, ...             Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery21 reviews Robert William Fogel, Stanley L. Engerman W. W. Norton & Company, 1995 Still a Classic + Painting the Picture of Slavery by Numbers + Fascinating; sweeps away insidious prejudice + Fascinating book to dispel the myths             Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate9 reviews Eli Evans Free Press, 1989 Judah P. Benjamin: Unsung and Remarkable American + Judah Who? + Difficult to Assess + Judah P. Benjamin: Overcoming Adversity + Mr. Benjamin goes to Richmond.             Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America50 reviews Jon Lewis, Leon F. Litwack, ... Twin Palms Publishers, 2000 Profound Metaphor, for the graphic brutality of Slavery in America + A lesson for all of us. + without sanctuary + Healing from the hurts of racism + Stunning, both inside and out             Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1760-18601 review Christopher Morris Oxford University Press, USA, 1995 A brilliant study of antebellum Mississippi Morris examines the development of a Mississippi community from early frontier to its rise as a center of the cotton culture. The book is extremely well written. Unlike most historians who attempt to write community studies, Morris writes with the reader in mind. His prose is accessible yet ...             Black Bourgeoisie: The Book That Brought the Shock of Self-Revelation to Middle-Class Blacks in America17 reviews E. Franklin Frazier Free Press, 1997 Sheila + THE "LUMBPEN-BLACK-BOURGEOISIE" EXPOSED! + arrested development + I would give it ten stars if I could             The Reconstruction Presidents5 reviews Brooks D. Simpson University Press Of Kansas, 1998 Compelling Comparative Overview + Fine overview + A viewing of a crucial period...... + An unusual new take on a crucial moment in US history.             John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights26 reviews David S. Reynolds Knopf, 2005 When is a fanatic not a fanatic? Highly enjoyable read. Not written at arm's length; It's clear that Reynolds "gets" John Brown and the age he lived in, so his heart and imagination are fully engaged as he writes. He doesn't hide Brown's humanity however. What bothered me the most was that Brown seemed to harden his heart ...             Intimacy and Power in the Old South: Ritual in the Lives of the Planters (New Studies in American ...1 review Steven Stowe The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990 A psychological history of Southern courtship I am a huge fan of Southern history and Stowe's book is by far the best I have read on the subject. He offers an interdisciplinary view of antebellum courtship incorporating psychological, anthropological, and economic perspectives. If you have ever wanted to know more about the origins of our ...             The Strange Career of Jim Crow9 reviews C. Vann Woodward Oxford University Press, USA, 2001 Segregation: What It Was and What It Wasn't + A Concise, Sorely Needed Work + Still influential today + Fascinating book on a sad aspect of US history and politics + Race in America             Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans5 reviews Anthony F. C. Wallace Belknap Press, 1999 The Beginnings of America's Indian Policy + Fallen Hero? + Jefferson and the Indians + Thomas Jefferson: First Hypocrite + Excellent BooK!             Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century1 review Thad W. Tate W. W. Norton & Company, 1980 Landmark Essays on the Colonial Chesapeake This collection of nine essays, edited by Thad W. Tate and David L. Ammerman, examine various aspects of the development of Anglo-American culture in the Chesapeake colonies, Maryland and Virginia. The studies provide a detailed and informative consideration of life in the seventeenth-century ...             Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America102 reviews John M. Barry Simon & Schuster, 1998 Much more than a "Disaster Book" + Marvelous engrossing social history + Interesting piece of history. + Best Book I've ever read + The seven deadly sins on display - it's a bad moon risin'             Black Odyssey: The Case of the Slave Ship `Amistad'3 reviews Mary Cable Penguin (Non-Classics), 1977 The Case of the Slave Ship Amistad + An excellent book + lucky mistake? This book is great!It's very detailed and is very entertaining,it feels like puts you on the Amistad itself and you are watching everything happen, like a movie.I liked the slave ship because it was true in some ways Africans were captured and brought to places around the world. If you read ...             The Burden of Southern History1 review C. Vann Woodward Louisiana State University Press, 1993 Essays from a Southern Intellectual This is a collection of essays on then contemporary southern culture and history. The essays generally deal with the transformation then taking place- the end of segregation, the civil rights movement, and surging population and industrial development. The essays have a sentimental quality I ...             Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War20 reviews Nicholas Lemann Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 Beyond Redemption + Lemann recounts an era when terrorists oveturned Civil War promise of racial justice + A Needed Corrective + Last Battle?             Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland During the Nineteenth Century (Yale Historical ...1 review Barbara Jeanne Fields Yale University Press, 1987 A must read for serious students of the American Civil War. There are seemingly as many books on the American Civil War as there are stars in the sky, and one would think that every conceivable topic has been covered adnauseam and in truth, many have been. However, in Slavery on the Middle Ground, Professor Fields has written on a subject which, ...              Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen VHS: Sweatin' to the Oldies 3: An Aerobic Concert with Richard Simmons home  impressum - about us