Michael Todd Landis has no tuck for the doughfaces, northern Democrats who worked to expand the slave power in pre-Civil War America. He blames them directly for the Civil War,.
Scenes on a Cotton Plantation: Hoeing, engraving from Harper’s Weekly, February 2, 1867 Sven Beckert's Bancroft Prize-winning book is a brilliant as advertised. He explores the history of cotton production.
Alan Taylor's Pulitzer Prize winning history of slavery in Virginia during the American Revolution and Early Republic is truly outstanding. The American Revolution created a rhetoric of equality that contributed.
Depleted bauxite mine, Gánt, Hungary Mimi Sheller's history of aluminum is one of the best books I read in 2015. Sheller splits her book into two parts. The first looks.
The twenty essays that make up Eating Asian America demonstrate both the multiple approaches to food studies in an era where that field has exploded and how food is a.
In the stories we tell about music and the South during the 1960s and 1970s, a common theme is that music was the place where race didn't count, where white.
Angela Pulley Hudson's fascinating and very readable new book details a remarkable story of an ex-slave from Mississippi and a Mormon convert who met during the tumultuous early years of.
