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  • Cotton City

    Urban Development in Antebellum Mobile

    The exploration of the North-South relationship and the growth of of antebellum Mobile.Cotton City offers a compelling exploration of Mobile, Alabama’s transformation into a thriving urban center during the antebellum period. Historian Harriet E. Amos examines how economic ambition, civic planning, and the cotton trade shaped the city’s development between 1819 and 1861. Through detailed archival ... Leer más

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  • The Yellowhammer War

    The Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama

    Published to mark the Civil War sesquicentennial, The Yellowhammer War collects new essays on Alabama’s role in, and experience of, the bloody national conflict and its aftermath.During the first winter of the war, Confederate soldiers derided the men of an Alabama Confederate unit for their yellow-trimmed uniforms that allegedly resembled the plumage of the yellow-shafted flicker or “yellowhammer ... Leer más

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  • Slavery in Alabama

    Series series Library of Alabama Classics
    The only comprehensive statewide study of the institution of slavery in AlabamaSince its initial publication in 1950, Slavery in Alabama remains the only comprehensive statewide study of the institution of slavery in Alabama. Sellers concentrates on examining the social and economic aspects of how slavery operated in the state. After a brief discussion of slavery under imperial rulers of the ... Leer más

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  • Alabama Women

    Their Lives and Times

    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 ... Leer más

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    America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-18

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  • White Trash

    The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

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  • The Half Has Never Been Told

    Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

    The classic history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people.**"Gripping." —**New York Times**“A stinging indictment of slavery.” —**NPR Books?Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution—the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in ... Leer más

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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

    Here is the courageous, groundbreaking story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor—a story that reinterprets the history of America's civil rights movement in terms of the sexual violence committed against Black women by white men."An important step to finally facing the terrible legacies of race and gender in this country.” —The Washington PostRosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent ... Leer más

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  • America's Women

    400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines

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  • Ida: A Sword Among Lions

    Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching

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  • How the Irish Became White

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  • A Shining Thread of Hope

    The History of Black Women in America

    At the greatest moments and in the cruelest times, black women have been a crucial part of America's history. Now, the inspiring history of black women in America is explored in vivid detail by two leaders in the fields of African American and women's history.A Shining Thread of Hope chronicles the lives of black women from indentured servitude in the early American colonies to the cruelty of ... Leer más

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