Author: Horace Elisha ScudderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Men and Manners in America One Hundred Years Ago
Author: Horace Elisha ScudderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Becoming Visible
Author: Molly McGarryPublisher: Penguin Putnam
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Based on the New York Public Library's groundbreaking 1994 exhibit of the same name, "Becoming Visible" represents the largest and most extensive display of gay and lesbian history ever mounted in a museum or gallery space. 350 photos, documents & artifacts, 80 in color.
The American Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated
Author: If You Lived 100 Years Ago
Author: Ann McGovernPublisher: If You.
ISBN: 9780590960014
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Shows what it would have been like to live in New York City during the 1890's.
The Black Church
Author: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984880330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series. “Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again “Engaging. . . . In Gates’s telling, the Black church shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth—as it is in heaven.” —Jon Meacham, New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of Stony the Road and The Black Box, and one of our most important voices on the African American experience, comes a powerful new history of the Black church as a foundation of Black life and a driving force in the larger freedom struggle in America. For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity—an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life's blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic slave trade to today’s political landscape. At road’s end, and after Gates’s distinctive meditation on the churches of his childhood, we emerge with a new understanding of the importance of African American religion to the larger national narrative—as a center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy, as a magnet for political mobilization, as an incubator of musical and oratorical talent that would transform the culture, and as a crucible for working through the Black community’s most critical personal and social issues. In a country that has historically afforded its citizens from the African diaspora tragically few safe spaces, the Black Church has always been more than a sanctuary. This fact was never lost on white supremacists: from the earliest days of slavery, when enslaved people were allowed to worship at all, their meetinghouses were subject to surveillance and destruction. Long after slavery’s formal eradication, church burnings and bombings by anti-Black racists continued, a hallmark of the violent effort to suppress the African American struggle for equality. The past often isn’t even past—Dylann Roof committed his slaughter in the Mother Emanuel AME Church 193 years after it was first burned down by white citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, following a thwarted slave rebellion. But as Gates brilliantly shows, the Black church has never been only one thing. Its story lies at the heart of the Black political struggle, and it has produced many of the Black community’s most notable leaders. At the same time, some churches and denominations have eschewed political engagement and exemplified practices of exclusion and intolerance that have caused polarization and pain. Those tensions remain today, as a rising generation demands freedom and dignity for all within and beyond their communities, regardless of race, sex, or gender. Still, as a source of faith and refuge, spiritual sustenance and struggle against society’s darkest forces, the Black Church has been central, as this enthralling history makes vividly clear.
Bibliotheca Americana. Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books and Pamphlets Relating to America ... With a Descriptive List of the Ohio Valley Historical Series. For Sale by Robert Clarke & Co
Author: Clarke, Robert and CoPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Catalogue of Books in the Roxbury Branch Library of the Boston Public Library. Including the Collection of the Fellowes Athenaeum. Together with Notes for Readers Under Subject-references
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385488753
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Scribner's Magazine
Author: Edward Livermore BurlingamePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 990
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: The Dial
Author: Francis Fisher BrownePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description