Freedom on the Border (Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History)
by Catherine Fosl
Most scholarship on the civil rights movement has focused on the Deep South, even though border states like Kentucky also had segregation laws and a history of racialized violence. African American Kentuckians challenged racial segregation, too, but they adapted their approaches as needed, from familiar protest models in the state's larger cities to more unique strategies in isolated rural communities, where they constituted only a tiny fraction of the population. In ""Freedom on the Border"", 1...
In the summer of 1964 medical professionals, mostly white and northern, organized the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR) to provide care and support for civil rights activists organizing black voters in Mississippi. They left their lives and lucrative private practices to march beside and tend the wounds of demonstrators from Freedom Summer, the March on Selma, and the Chicago Democratic Convention of 1968. Galvanized and sometimes radicalized by their firsthand view of disenfranchised co...
Religion, Space, and the Atlantic World (The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World)
While the concept of an Atlantic world has been central to the work of historians for decades, the full implications of that spatial setting for the lives of religious people have received far less attention. In Religion, Space, and the Atlantic World, John Corrigan brings together research from geographers, anthropologists, literature scholars, historians, and religious studies specialists to explore some of the possibilities for and benefits of taking physical space more seriously in the study...
Clyde E. Palmer: Arkansas Newspaper Publisher began as a thesis by Lawrence J. Bracken, a student at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Bracken's extensive research over several years traces the career and impact of Palmer, a force in American journalism for nearly 50 years until his death in 1957. Palmer, an enterprising Arkansas newspaper publisher, engineered a conglomerate of media properties that was uncommon in his era. He was a successful businessperson and became a pioneer of te...
2000 Census of Population and Housing, South Carolina, Summary Social, Economic, and Housing Characteristics
In this highly original work, Thomas D. Wilson offers surprising new insights into the origins of the political storms we witness today. Wilson connects the Ashley Cooper Plan-a seventeenth-century model for a well-ordered society imagined by Anthony Ashley Cooper (1st Earl of Shaftesbury) and his protege John Locke-to current debates about views on climate change, sustainable development, urbanism, and professional expertise in general. In doing so, he examines the ways that the city design, po...
It Happened on the Outer Banks (It Happened in)
by Molly Perkins Harrison
Discover fascinating stories about thirty events that helped make these sandy barrier islands in North Carolina what they are today. From the story about the moving of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse to a visit by Princess Anne that the town of Manteo spent ten years preparing for, this book includes little-known episodes that shaped the Outer Banks' colorful history.
Northumberland County, Virginia Apprenticeships 1650-1750
by W Preston Haynie
Edgecombe County (Making of America) (Images of America)
by Monika S Fleming
Coast Guard Rescue of the Seabreeze Off the Outer Banks
by Rear Admiral Carlton Moore Uscgr (ret)