Overview :First published in 1797, The Columbian Orator helped shape the American mind for the next half century, going through some 23 editions and t... Read More
Overview :First published in 1797, The Columbian Orator helped shape the American mind for the next half century, going through some 23 editions and t... Read More
Overview :A comprehensive look at how slavery and resistance to it have shaped Yale University Award-winning historian David W. Blight, with the Yale... Read More
Overview :In 1850 seven South Carolina slaves were photographed at the request of the famous naturalist Louis Agassiz to provide evidence of the suppo... Read More
Overview :During the past decade and a half, scholars have increasingly addressed the relationship of history and memory. Among American historians, D... Read More
Overview :This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation... Read More
Overview :No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to em... Read More
Overview :Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, a century after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, Martin Luthe... Read More
Overview :In this sensitive intellectual biography David W. Blight undertakes the first systematic analysis of the impact of the Civil War on Frederic... Read More
Overview :Get to know the iconic historical figure, Frederick Douglass through his story and his writing as the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Dou... Read More
Overview :Slave narratives, some of the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five post-Civil War narratives survivin... Read More
Overview :**Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in History** *Winner of the Bancroft, Parkman, Los Angeles Times (biography), Lincoln, Plutarch, and Chr... Read More
Overview :Get to know the iconic historical figure, Frederick Douglass through his story and his writing as the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Dou... Read More