Books written by Raymond Arsenault
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Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
In a final flurry of phone calls, Byron White and Governor Ross Barnett put the finishing touches on a military operation “worthy of a NATO war game,” as one historian later put it. Unfortunately, the close collaboration also produced a ...
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The Long Civil War: New Explorations of America’s Enduring Conflict
In this wide-ranging volume, eminent historians John David Smith and Raymond Arsenault assemble a distinguished group of scholars to build on the growing body of work on the "Long Civil War" and break new ground.
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The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America
On the accomplishments and obscurity of black artists, see Samella Lewis, African American Art and Artists (Berkeley: ... 2005), 172–217; Lisa Gail Collins and Lisa Mintz Messinger, African-American Artists, 1929–1945: Prints, Drawings, ...
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Dixie Redux: Essays in Honor of Sheldon Hackney
... Nationalism after Sir Walter Scott,” Historically Speaking 10.3 (2009): 24—27. Simms, Mellichampe, 1:X—xii, and “Ellet's “Women of the Revolution',” in William Gilmore Simms's Selected Reviews on Literature and Civilization, ed.
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Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Randall and Randall, “Freedom Riders' Diary,” 14–20; Brown and Randall, The Freedom Riders, 6–9; Gordon Negen, “I Went on a Freedom Ride,” Reformed Journal (July–Aug. 1961): 4–6. St. Petersburg Times, June 16, 17 (Diamond and Smith ...
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Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
With characters and plot lines rivaling those of the most imaginative fiction, this is a tale of heroic sacrifice and unexpected triumph.
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St. Petersburg and the Florida Dream, 1888-1950
Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic.
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Arthur Ashe: A Life
But much of the book explores his off-court career as a human rights activist, philanthropist, broadcaster, writer, businessman, and celebrity.
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Dixie Redux: Essays in Honor of Sheldon Hackney
It is in this spirit that we offer the essays of Dixie Redux as a reprise of the themes and questions that have propelled Sheldon Hackney through a lifetime of scholarly engagement. In Rabbit Redux—the inspiration for our title and the ...
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The Changing South of Gene Patterson: Journalism and Civil Rights, 1960-1968
"In pointing us toward how to be 'better than we are, ' Gene Patterson--passionate, funny, sound of mind and full of heart--coincidentally reminds us just how fine journalism can be. This is a wonderful, inspiring book.
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The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America
Award-winning civil rights historian Ray Arsenault describes the dramatic story behind Marian Anderson's concert at the Lincoln Memorial—an early milestone in civil rights history—on the seventieth anniversary of her performance....
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Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
The book paints a harrowing picture of the outpouring of hatred and violence that greeted the Freedom Riders in Alabama and Mississippi.
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The Long Civil War: New Explorations of America's Enduring Conflict
... Leavitt sat in the House of Representatives gallery and concentrated on reporting debate as members turned to the ... Joshua Leavitt and the Antislavery Insurgency in the Whig Party 1839-1842 , ” Journal of Negro History 48 ( July 1963 ) ...
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Paradise Lost?: The Environmental History of Florida
"--Carolyn Johnston, Eckerd College This collection of essays surveys the environmental history of the Sunshine State, from Spanish exploration to the present, and provides an organized, detailed overview of the reciprocal relationship ...
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Waters Less Traveled: Exploring Florida's Big Bend Coast
A comprehensive guide to Florida's Big Bend Coast, one of America's longest and wildest continuous wetlands, introduces readers to Florida's frontier past and evolving future, including little-known stories of backcountry feuds that rivaled ...
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Crucible of Liberty
The adoption of the Bill of Rights in 1791 marked the creation of a uniquely innovative mechanism for constitutional change by which Americans have continued to renew and redefine their governance over a two-hundred-year period.
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Crucible of Liberty
The adoption of the Bill of Rights in 1791 marked the creation of a uniquely innovative mechanism for constitutional change by which Americans have continued to renew and redefine their governance over a two-hundred-year period.
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The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America
... Hard Road to Glory:A History oftheAfrican-American Ath- 18. 19. lete, 1919–1945, vol. 2 (New York: Amistad, 1988) ... 1 and 2; and David K. Wiggins and Patrick B. Miller, eds., The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History ofthe African ...
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The Changing South of Gene Patterson: Journalism and Civil Rights, 1960-1968
"In pointing us toward how to be 'better than we are,' Gene Patterson--passionate, funny, sound of mind and full of heart--coincidentally reminds us just how fine journalism can be. This is a wonderful, inspiring book.