Dewey turned to the captain of his flagship , saying : “ You may fire when you are ready , Gridley . ” American shells rained down upon the Spanish ships ; then Dewey circled and came past four more times , accurately raking the ...
American Realities: From Reconstruction to the present
American Realities: Historical Episodes from Reconstruction to the Present
This edition includes new scholarship and revised writing in existing chapters.
John William Theodore Youngs. ' 1 ^ ; American Realities Volume II Historical Episodes from I.
An explosion of academic scholarship in the 19705 quickly followed upon Gutman's work. fundamentally rewriting the history of African Americans in the era of ... Eric Foner, David Blight, James Horton, Leon Litwack, Michael Perman.
For her writings, see Ida B. Wells-Barnett, The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-lynching Crusader, ed. Mia Bay and Henry Louis Gates Jr. (New York: Penguin Books, 2014). Frederick Douglass, Letter, in Ida B. Wells, Southern Horrors: ...
The average of 1,150 pages derives from these six books: Joyce Appleby, Alan Brinkley, and James McPherson, The American Journey (NYC: Glencoe McGrawHill, 2000); Daniel Boorstin and Brooks Mather Kelley, A History of the United States ...
The abolition of slavery after the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that transformed the nation after World War II. But the century in between remains a mystery: if emancipation sparked 'a new birth of ...
Susan E. O'Donovan, “Nelson Tift,” New Georgia Encyclopedia, online, accessed July 15, 2019, www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/ history-archaeology/nelson-tift-1810-1891. 41. For Tift's effort and the responses, see “Condition of ...
Describes the changes brought about by the Civil War, discusses the impact of slavery's end, and looks at the political, economic, and social aspects of Reconstruction.