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Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 362 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1962, boxing writers and fans considered Cassius Clay an obnoxious self-promoter, and few believed that he would become the heavyweight champion of the world. But Malcolm X, the most famous minister in the Nation of Islam -- a sect many white Americans deemed a hate cult -- saw the potential in Clay, not just for boxing greatness, but as a means of spreading the Nation's message. . . . Acclaimed historians Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith reconstruct...
Author
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
x, 345 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The First Great Awakening, an unprecedented surge in Protestant Christian revivalism in the eighteenth century, sparked enormous controversy at the time and has been a source of scholarly debate ever since. Few historians have sought to write a synthetic history of the First Great Awakening, and, in recent decades, its having happened at all has been challenged as being either an exaggeration or an "invention."
9) Writings: with other narratives of Roanoke, Jamestown, and the first English settlement of America
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xii, 1329 pages, 28 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 276 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of Mickey Mantle's magnificent 1956 season Mickey Mantle was the ideal batter for the atomic age, capable of hitting a baseball harder and farther than any other player in history. He was also the perfect idol for postwar America, a wholesome hero from the heartland. In A Season in the Sun, acclaimed historians Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith recount the defining moment of Mantle's legendary career: 1956, when he overcame a host of injuries...
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
xxiii, 451 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Informed by research in African-American, military and social history, the 14 essays in this volume tell the stories of the African-American soldiers who fought for the Union cause. Collectively, they probe the military, political and social significance of black soldiers' armed service.
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
A new ed. with primary documents and int.
Physical Desc
xxix, 222 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This new edition of Du Bois's John Brown includes the text of the original 1909 edition and is accompanied by a major introduction that underscores Du Bois's intellectual and emotional debt to the martyred abolitionist. John David Smith's introduction asks new questions about Brown's influence on Du Bois's emerging thoughts on race and society. Smith also provides contextualizing documents, including letters from Brown to his family and Frederick...
19) Soldiering for freedom: how the Union army recruited, trained, and deployed the U.S. Colored Troops
Author
Series
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
x, 131 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
This Civil War history provides an in-depth look at the impact and experiences of African American men fighting in the Union Army.
After President Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, many enslaved people in the Confederate south made the perilous journey north-then put their lives at risk again by joining the Union army. These U.S. Colored Troops, as the War Department designated most black units, performed a variety...
Author
Publisher
FaithWords
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
vi, 249, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Through the years and the struggles, when life seemed more about hurt and loss than hope and mercy, God was positioning the Smiths for something extraordinary--the death and resurrection of their son. When Joyce Smith's fourteen-year-old son John fell through an icy Missouri lake one winter morning, she and her family had seemingly lost everything. At the hospital, John lay lifeless for more than sixty minutes. But Joyce was not ready to give up on...