TEXT Norton argues that “the witchcraft crisis of 1692 can be comprehended only in the context of nearly two decades of armed conflict between English settlers and the New England Indians.”8 NOTE 8. Mary Beth Norton, In the Devil's ...
By T. Thomas Fortune Considering the two hundred and fortyfive years of his slavery and the comparatively short time he has enjoyed the opportunities of freedom, his place in American life at the present day is creditable to him and ...
In this book, Kling traces the story of how specific biblical texts have emerged to be the inspiration of movements and collective responses that have changed the course of history.
The Souls of Black Folk W. E. B. Du Bois - One of the Most Important Books on Civil Rights, Race, and Freedom Ever Written.
In this lavishly illustrated volume, Sean Dennis Cashman surveys the history of civil rights in twentieth-century America.
Broad in scope, The Gilded Age brings together sixteen original essays that offer lively syntheses of modern scholarship while making their own interpretive arguments.
Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America Sterling Stuckey Professor of History Northwestern University. "An interpretation of considerable originality. He brings a broad knowledge of, and a wonderful ear for, poetry, ...
Presents an epic history that covers the period from the end of World War I through the 1970s, chronicling the decades-long migration of African Americans from the South to the North and West through the stories of three individuals and ...
The Negro
THE Negro Church is the only social institution of the Negroes which started in the African forest and survived slavery; under the leadership of priest or medicine man, afterward of the Christian pastor, the Church preserved in itself the ...