Together, and separately, black and white Baptists created different but intertwined cultures that profoundly shaped the South. Adopting a biracial and bicultural focus, Paul Harvey works to redefine southern religious history, and by extension southern c
Yet this noble aspect of Lincoln’s identity is the dimension that some historians have cast into doubt. The award-winning historian and Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo offers a vigorous defense of America’s sixteenth president.
Scott Stephan argues that female Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians played a crucial role in this transformation.
Last two paragraphs from Boyer, How Sweet the Sound, 21; J. William Harris, Rise of Gospel Blues, 99-100; and Kempton, Boogaloo. See also Palmer, Deep Blues, and Spencer, Blues and Evil, which provide some of the most recent compelling ...
Katherine Franke makes a powerful case for reparations for Black Americans by amplifying the stories of formerly enslaved people and calling for repair of the damage caused by the legacy of American slavery.
His memoir tells the story of this horrendous event, backing up to recount the journey that led him there particularly his rising awareness of the radical social implications of the gospel and his identification with the liberation struggle ...
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The increases in the other five counties were also impressive : 295 to 4,257 in Marengo , 320 to 6,789 in Dallas , 289 to 2,466 in Perry , 0 to 1,496 in Lowndes , and o to 6,085 in Wilcox.32 But elsewhere in Alabama and the South the ...
This, the last volume in Smith's history of the United States, covers the 1920s, the Great Depression, and the New Deal years.
A collection of thirteen essays on American political thought.
In this illuminating story of hope and full-circle redemption, Adams draws on his life and the cases of his clients to show the racist tactics used to convict young men of color, the unique challenges facing exonerees once released, and how ...