Author: Gay Garrigan MoorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
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The Southern Historical Collection in the Louis Round Wilson Library of the University of North Carolina, from the Beginning of the Collection Through 1948
Author: Gay Garrigan MooreAmerican Library History
Author: Arthur P. YoungPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810821385
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
...a leaping departure in comprehensiveness, organizational format, and accessibility through indexing...A magnificent contribution to the study of American library history. --LIBRARIES & CULTURE ...a work of enormous and painstaking scholarship. --LIBRARY ASSOCIATION RECORD (UK)
A Guide to Research in American Library History
Author: Michael H. HarrisPublisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Hidden History of Chapel Hill
Author: Brian BurnsPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467153559
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Well known as a university town, Chapel Hill's rich and fascinating past dates back to the eighteenth century. Learn all about the origins of the 1,200-acre Strowd plantation and its complete transformation into a modern neighborhood. Robert Strowd was v
The Journal of Library History, Philosophy and Comparative Librarianship
Author: American Library History
Author: Michael H. HarrisPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Slavery in Indian Country
Author: Christina SnyderPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674064232
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Slavery existed in North America long before the first Africans arrived at Jamestown in 1619. For centuries, from the pre-Columbian era through the 1840s, Native Americans took prisoners of war and killed, adopted, or enslaved them. Christina Snyder's pathbreaking book takes a familiar setting for bondage, the American South, and places Native Americans at the center of her engrossing story. Indian warriors captured a wide range of enemies, including Africans, Europeans, and other Indians. Yet until the late eighteenth century, age and gender more than race affected the fate of captives. As economic and political crises mounted, however, Indians began to racialize slavery and target African Americans. Native people struggling to secure a separate space for themselves in America developed a shared language of race with white settlers. Although the Indians' captivity practices remained fluid long after their neighbors hardened racial lines, the Second Seminole War ultimately tore apart the inclusive communities that Native people had created through centuries of captivity. Snyder's rich and sweeping history of Indian slavery connects figures like Andrew Jackson and Cherokee chief Dragging Canoe with little-known captives like Antonia Bonnelli, a white teenager from Spanish Florida, and David George, a black runaway from Virginia. Placing the experiences of these individuals within a complex system of captivity and Indians' relations with other peoples, Snyder demonstrates the profound role of Native American history in the American past.
Resources on the History of 20th Century American Student Organizations
Author: Publisher: Worthy Shorts Inc
ISBN: 1935340220
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
American Library History
Author: Donald G. DavisPublisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Remaking the Rural South
Author: Robert Hunt FergusonPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820351784
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
This is the first book-length study of Delta Cooperative Farm (1936–42) and its descendant, Providence Farm (1938–56). The two intentional communities drew on internationalist practices of cooperative communalism and pragmatically challenged Jim Crow segregation and plantation labor. In the winter of 1936, two dozen black and white ex-sharecropping families settled on some two thousand acres in the rural Mississippi Delta, one of the most insular and oppressive regions in the nation. Thus began a twenty-year experiment—across two communities—in interracialism, Christian socialism, cooperative farming, and civil and economic activism. Robert Hunt Ferguson recalls the genesis of Delta and Providence: how they were modeled after cooperative farms in Japan and Soviet Russia and how they rose in reaction to the exploitation of small- scale, dispossessed farmers. Although the staff, volunteers, and residents were very much everyday people—a mix of Christian socialists, political leftists, union organizers, and sharecroppers—the farms had the backing of such leading figures as philanthropist Sherwood Eddy, who purchased the land, and educator Charles Spurgeon Johnson and theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, who served as trustees. On these farms, residents developed a cooperative economy, operated a desegregated health clinic, held interracial church services and labor union meetings, and managed a credit union. Ferguson tells how a variety of factors related to World War II forced the closing of Delta, while Providence finally succumbed to economic boycotts and outside threats from white racists. Remaking the Rural South shows how a small group of committed people challenged hegemonic social and economic structures by going about their daily routines. Far from living in a closed society, activists at Delta and Providence engaged in a local movement with national and international roots and consequences.