American Education: A History, Sixth Edition is a comprehensive, highly regarded history of
American education from precolonial times to the present. Chronologically organized, it …

Challenging notions of race and sexuality presumed to have originated and flourished in the
slave South, Diane Miller Sommerville traces the evolution of white southerners' fears of …

How did the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee break open the caste system in the
American South between 1960 and 1965? In this innovative study, Wesley Hogan explores …

A history of sexuality runs the risk of confirming popular fears that academics are capable of
ruining even the most simple of pleasures. This book, however, is written in the hope that …

Tracing the erosion of white elite paternalism in Jim Crow Virginia, Douglas Smith reveals a
surprising fluidity in southern racial politics in the decades between World War I and the …

In 1834 Antigua became the only British colony in the Caribbean to move directly from
slavery to full emancipation. Immediate freedom, however, did not live up to its promise, as it …

For decades, historians have primarily analyzed charges of black-on-white rape in the South
through accounts of lynching or manifestly unfair trial proceedings, suggesting that white …

In August 2013, the newly launched YouTube channel, All Def Digital, posted a video
entitled “The Harriet Tubman Sextape.” Reactions to the tape were swift and overwhelmingly …

Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled
Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling …

Many early-nineteenth-century slaveholders considered themselves" masters" not only over
slaves, but also over the institutions of marriage and family. According to many historians …