The story of several families of black Mormon pioneers.
Lee's River George was the earliest fugitive migrant novel to frame its protagonist's migration around a whipping . Published in 1937 , the same year as Their Eyes Were Watching God , the novel marks a transition from the concerns of ...
Get to know the lovable cast of characters that populate the small town of Mitford in this inspirational novel in Jan Karon's #1 New York Times bestselling series.
2 Corinthians 11:20 ANE J AMES HAD NO WAY OF KNOWING IT,FORNONE OF HER SIBLINGS COULD WRITE , but her brother, ... “Marshall. It ain'tdrythere, but it sho' ain't as drippin' as here.” “Marshall, Missouri? Iain'theard of it.
"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2020."
The hero in Booth Tarkington's tale The Conquest of Canaan has achieved a strange kind of popularity -- he's seen as a prince among those who are down on their luck, but to the upper classes and the powerful, he might as well be invisible.
In Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad, Jeanine Michna-Bales presents a remarkable series of images following a route from the cotton plantations of central Louisiana, through the cypress swamps of ...
The final volume of Taylor Branch's monumental, much honored, and definitive history of the Civil Rights Movement (America in the King Years), At Canaan's Edge covers the final years of King's struggle to hold his non-violent movement ...
"This was the ugliest, deadest town I ever seen in my life" : migrants and reformers in the Steel City, 1915-1929 -- "A healthy and prosperous race" : the Urban League of Pittsburgh and the struggle for jobs, housing, and health, 1915-1929 ...
Just as white Americans throughout the new republic rejected African American equality, the Moravian story illustrates the power of slavery and race to overwhelm other ideals.
This book focuses on the relationship established between China, the world’s second largest economy, and Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter.