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  • The Chase and Ruins

    Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras

    by Sharony Green ...
    A fascinating look at a pivotal period in Zora Neale Hurston's life that reimagines her complicated legacy.Zora Neale Hurston, an anthropologist and writer best known for her classic novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, led a complicated life often marked by tragedy and contradictions. When both she and her writing fell out of favor after the Harlem Renaissance, she struggled not only to regain an ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Voices from a Black Miami Neighborhood

    The Baa Haas, Liberty City, the Grove, and Beyond

    by Sharony Green ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This Palgrave Pivot is a personal and universal history of gain and loss. Via memoir and oral histories, Sharony Green, a native of Miami with ancestral roots in the American South and the Bahamas, sheds light on ups and down of African American residents before and after the Second World War. The author uses the 'Baa Haas,' an outlying community in Miami-Dade County, a region that is also a ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Teaching Public History Creatively in Alabama

    About (Public) Face

    by Sharony Green ...
    Series series Global Perspectives on Public History
    This book chronicles a University of Alabama historian’s efforts to engage public history over the course of a decade, highlighting personal and educational experiences inside and outside of the classroom.Each chapter reveals how Sharony Green, her students, and collaborators used various public places and spaces in Alabama, including the University of Alabama and Tuscaloosa, where she teaches, as ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Alabama Women

    Their Lives and Times

    by Susan Youngblood Ashmore, Christopher D. Haveman, Susan E. Reynolds, Sharony Green, Harriet E. Amos Doss, Kimberly D. Hill, Paul Pruitt Jr., Sheena Harris, Rebecca S. Montgomery0, Rebecca McIntyre1, Tina Naremore Jones2, Caroline Gebhard3, Staci Simon Glover4, Jeanne Theoharis5, Nancy Grisham Anderson6, Marlene Hunt Rikard7, Jenny Luke8, Patricia A. Sullivan9, Wayne Flynt0 ...
    Series series
    Another addition to the Southern Women series, Alabama Women celebrates women’s histories in the Yellowhammer State by highlighting the lives and contributions of women and enriching our understanding of the past and present. Exploring such subjects as politics, arts, and civic organizations, this collection of eighteen biographical essays provides a window into the social, cultural, and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Fordlandia

    The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City

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    Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in HistoryFinalist for the National Book Award in NonfictionFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award“Grandin tells a gripping story of high hopes and deep failure, a saga that in some ways is a morality tale for the American century.” —The Boston GlobeFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning author Greg Grandin comes the stunning,... ... Read more

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  • When We Rise

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  • White Trash

    The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

    by Nancy Isenberg ...
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    by Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross ...
    Series Book 5 - ReVisioning History
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  • Overground Railroad

    The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America

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  • At the Dark End of the Street

    Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power

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