During the 1950s and early 1960s, nonviolent protesters challenged legalized racial segregation and discrimination in the only two places on earth where such blatant manifestations of white supremacy could be found—the southern United States and the Union of South Africa. …
The thirteen essays in this volume were originally commissioned by the American Historical Association as a series of pamphlets to acquaint schoolteachers with the latest trends in historical writing about the United States. The contributors are well known and highly …
Lydia Maria Child was one of the most remarkable American women of the 19th century. An author and reformer, she wrote extensively on social and cultural issues, was active in the antislavery movement, and supported women’s rights. Her literary output …
