Browse by Subject: History

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"The Ticket to Freedom": The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration

The first full-scale political history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, tracing its struggle for black civil and political equality from its founding in 1909 through the post-civil rights years.

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From Rights to Economics: The Ongoing Struggle for Black Equality in the U.S. South

Rich with the voices of black and white southern workers, this broad collection of essays shows how ardently African Americans have had to continue fighting for economic parity in the decades since the civil rights legislation of the 1960s.

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Making a New South: Race, Leadership, and Community after the Civil War

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Fellow Travelers: Indians and Europeans Contesting the Early American Trail

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Remembering the Great Depression in the Rural South

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Jackie Cochran: Pilot in the Fastest Lane

This riveting story of America’s greatest woman pilot draws from previously unpublished information about Cochran’s early years and her first marriage, and on her extensive correspondence with U.S. Presidents, Air Force generals, and business tycoons to

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From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: Migration and Influences

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The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil Rights

The Spirit and the Shotgun explores the role of armed self-defense in tandem with nonviolent protests in the African American freedom struggle of the 1950s and 1960s.

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Crisis at Sea: The United States Navy in European Waters in World War I

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Uriah Levy: Reformer of the Antebellum Navy