Books written by Thomas Aiello
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The Grapevine of the Black South: The Scott Newspaper Syndicate in the Generation before the Civil Rights Movement
In The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, vol. 10: “Fight for Freedom” and Other Writings on Civil Rights, ed. Christopher C. De Santis, 117–122. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2001. Hunter, Gary Jerome.
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Bayou Classic: The Grambling-Southern Football Rivalry
AM&N, and Langston tempered the hyperbole that opened the season.26 Meanwhile, Normal struggled through mediocrity on the football field and increasing racial violence in Lincoln Parish. In early October, 5 white youths ranging in age ...
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New Orleans Sports: Playing Hard in the Big Easy
James J. Corbett fought Jake Kilrain, Bob Fitzsimmons battled Arthur Upham and such other highly regarded men as Peter Maher, Charlie Mitchell and Frank Slavin made appearances. They came from all corners of the prizefighting world, ...
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Model Airplanes are Decadent and Depraved: The Glue-Sniffing Epidemic of the 1960s
Lawton , James J. , and Carl P. Malmquist . ... Lohman , Joseph D. “ Youth : New Problems and New Directions . ... New York : Century Co. , 1922 . von Oettingen , Wolfgang F. , Paul A. Neal , and Dennis D. Donahue .
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Model Airplanes are Decadent and Depraved: The Glue-Sniffing Epidemic of the 1960s
... and Helen McDade from DeKalb. 42. “House of Representatives by Districts and Counties,” Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Mississippi, 1525–43; “HB No. 281,” ibid., 353. 43. “Part XIII: Biographical Data of ...
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The Trouble in Room 519: Money, Matricide, and Marginal Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century
IT GREW better still on Broadway, for Canavan, the cop on the corner, held up his hand in utter disregard of all green lights, and traffic growled to a stop to let the Great Man through. It growled to such an abrupt stop that Mr.
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Hoops: A Cultural History of Basketball in America
One of the most important “muscular Christians” was Thomas Wentworth Higginson, editor of the Atlantic Monthly. His 1858 essay, “Saints and Their Bodies,” argued that ministers were weak. He asked why the cloistered, scrawny minister ...
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Bayou Classic: The Grambling-Southern Football Rivalry
“The integrity of the conference rules is at stake,” said SWAC commissioner Andrew Brown. “Conference members must observe conference rules first and the scheduling of games with opponents outside the conference must be done in a way ...
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The Grapevine of the Black South: The Scott Newspaper Syndicate in the Generation before the Civil Rights Movement
Melissa A. McEuen and Thomas H. Appleton Jr., 274–293. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015. McDowell, A. “The Young Men's Progressive Club.” Academy Herald 1 (May 1909): 25–26. McDowell, Deborah E. Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of ...
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The Battle for the Souls of Black Folk: W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and the Debate That Shaped the...
Smith, John David. “No Negro Is Upon the Program: Blacks and the Montgomery Race Conference of 1900.” In A Mythic Land Apart: Reassessing Southerners and Their History, by eds. John David Smith and Thomas H. Appleton, 125–150 (Westport, ...
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The Life and Times of Louis Lomax: The Art of Deliberate Disunity
Jon Meacham, 268–280. New York: Random House, 2001. Lomax, Louis E. “A Negro View: Johnson Can Free the South.” Look, 10 March 1964, 34–38. Lomax, Louis E. “Prelude to a New Africa Policy.” New Republic, 4 September 1961, 18–20.
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The Kings of Casino Park: Black Baseball in the Lost Season of 1932
... Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 4 July 2002, 1C, 8C; and Swingin' Timber: The Story of the Claybrook Tigers, videocassette, produced and directed by David D. Dawson, lemke Department of Journalism, University of arkansas, fayetteville, ...
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Jim Crow’s Last Stand: Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana
This updated edition of Jim Crow’s Last Stand unpacks the origins of the statute in Bourbon Louisiana, traces its survival through the civil rights era, and ends with the successful effort to overturn the nonunanimous jury practice, a ...
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Saint Norman
In this new work, Thomas Aiello takes on religious dogma, the judicial system, and the media as events quickly spiral to a dramatic conclusion. Saint Norman is tragicomedy at its finest.
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Solemnity
The story begins with the couple's childhood, then progresses through their marriage, their happiness, and the narrator's mental declension, which ultimately unravels his marriage.
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The Devil's Messages
The Devil's Messages
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The Artistic Activism of Elombe Brath
Collected for the first time, an exploration of the artwork and commentary of a forgotten activist during the civil rights movement
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Womb of Monsters: Or, the Fine Art of Blasphemy in a Post-Religious World
A social commentary, religious satire, and absurdist comedy that examines the fine line between imagination and reality: come look inside the womb of monsters.
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The Devil's Messages: Language and Contested Space in 20th Century America
This book is a collection of essays that examines instances of definitional difference, of contested meaning. Each essay is exemplary of historical points where disagreements over language create contested space.
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The Tyranny of Architecture: A Vegan Apologetic
The Tyranny of Architecture is a full philosophical defense of veganism, one that defends the practice in a way fundamentally unique among such arguments.