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Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Views on slavery Presidents United States Biography Race relations Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Slaves Emancipation United States United States United States Politics and government 1861-1865 United States Race relations History 19th century United States Race relations History 20th centuryDomby, Adam H.
Summary: "This book examines the foundational role of deliberate misrepresentation in various elements of white supremist Lost Cause mythology, from Confederate soldiers' military prowess, loyalty, motivation, and unity, to mythical black Confederates, to the evolution of Lost Cause myths to support present-day white supremacy. It adds to the understanding of the memory and reality of the American Civil...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Virginia Press 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Challenges one of America's most cherished assumptions, the belief that slavery in the U.S. ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, by telling the harrowing story of how, in the South, a new system of involuntary servitude took its place with shocking force.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2012
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SLAMeacham, Jon
Summary: Examines life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln and how he navigated the crises of slavery, secession, and war by marshaling the power of the presidency while recognizing its limitations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 LINCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 LINMeacham, Jon
Summary: Jon Meacham chronicles the life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln and explores why and how Lincoln confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery in order to expand the possibilities of America. This book tells the story of Lincoln from his birth on the Kentucky frontier in 1809 to his leadership during the Civil War to his tragic assassination at Ford's Theater on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LINBlackmon, Douglas A.
Summary: A sobering account of a little-known crime against African Americans, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today. From the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II, under laws enacted specifically to intimidate blacks, tens of thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily arrested, hit with outrageous fines, and charged for the costs of their own arrests....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 BLAGates, Henry Louis
Summary: "A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind. The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 GATCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 GATLincoln, Abraham
Summary: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., presents the full range of Lincoln's views, gathered from his private letters, speeches, official documents, and even race jokes, arranged chronologically from the late 1830s to the 1860s. --from publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 LINMeacham, Jon
Summary: "A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Abraham Lincoln was president when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions inextricably bound up with money, power, race, identity, and faith. He was hated and hailed, excoriated and revered. In Lincoln we can see the possibilities of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM MEACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 MEACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B LINCOLN MEAEscott, Paul D.
Summary: "Throughout the Civil War, newspaper headlines and stories repeatedly asked some variation of the question posed by the New York Times in 1862, "What shall we do with the negro?" The future status of African Americans was a pressing issue for both those in the North and in the South. Consulting a broad range of contemporary newspapers, magazines, books, army records, government documents,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Virginia Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 ESCFoner, Eric.
Summary: This new examination of the years of Emancipation and Reconstruction during and immediately following the Civil War emphasizes the era's political and cultural meaning for today's America. Historian Foner overturns numerous assumptions growing out of the traditional understanding of the period, which is based almost exclusively on white sources and shaped by (often unconscious) racism. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 FONJones, Martha S.
Summary: This volume explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating women into positions of visibility and leadership. Martha Jones reveals how, throughout the 19th century, the "woman question" was at the core of movements against slavery and for civil rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.6 JonSmith, Sherri L.
Summary: "Reconstruction -- the period after the Civil War -- was meant to give newly freed Black people the same rights as white people. And indeed there were monumental changes once slavery ended -- thriving new Black communities, the first Black members in Congress, and a new sense of dignity for many Black Americans. But this time of hope didn't last long and instead, a deeply segregated United...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Blk His What SmithKaplan, Fred
Summary: Explores how the differing experiences and viewpoints of two Presidents shaped slavery and race relations in America for more than a century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 KAPBell, Richard
Summary: "A gripping and true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South -- and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice, reminiscent of Twelve Years A Slave and Never Caught"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 37 INK, Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 BELCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 BELCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 BELOakes, James.
Summary: This is a book about two towering figures in our nation's history. It is a moving story about an improbable friendship, and an important story about an equally improbable alliance. [In the book, the author] has written a ... narrative history. He brings these two iconic figures to life and sheds new light on the central issues of slavery, race, and equality in Civil War America. -Dust jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7114 OAKBordewich, Fergus M.
Summary: "A stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil-when Ulysses S. Grant wielded the power of the federal government in an attempt to dismantle the Ku Klux Klan. The Ku Klux Klan, which celebrated historian Fergus Bordewich defines as "the first organized terrorist movement in American history," rose from the ashes of the Civil War. At its peak in the early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 BORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 BORWitgen, Michael J.
Summary: "Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining thousands of acres of their homeland in what is now Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Their success rested partly on their roles as sellers of natural resources and buyers of trade goods,which made them key players in the political economy of plunder that drove white settlement and U.S. development in the Old Northwest. But, as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 WITGreenidge, Kerri
Summary: "This long-overdue biography reestablishes William Monroe Trotter's essential place next to Douglass, Du Bois, and King in the pantheon of American civil rights heroes. William Monroe Trotter (1872- 1934), though still virtually unknown to the wider public, was an unlikely American hero. With the stylistic verve of a newspaperman and the unwavering fearlessness of an emancipator, he galvanized...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Co. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TROTTER, WILLIAM MONROE GREDavidson, James West.
Contents: Into a changing world -- A moral education -- Unladylike lady -- Edged tools -- Ambition to edit -- They say -- Do something -- Exiled.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WELLS, IDA DAVBurlingame, Michael
Summary: Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president” as well as “the first who rose above the prejudice of his times and country.” This narrative history of Lincoln’s personal interchange with Black people over the course his career reveals a side of the sixteenth president that, until now, has not been fully explored or understood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 BURLevine, Robert S. (Robert Steven)
Summary: "The absorbing narrative of Frederick Douglass's heated struggle with President Andrew Johnson reveals a new perspective on Reconstruction's demise. When Andrew Johnson rose to the presidency after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, African Americans were optimistic that Johnson would pursue aggressive federal policies for Black equality. Just a year earlier, Johnson had cast himself as a "Moses"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 LEVDray, Philip.
Summary: Pulitzer Prize finalist Philip Dray shines a light on a little known group of men: the nation's first black members of Congress. These men played a critical role in pushing for much-needed reforms in the wake of a traumatic civil war, including public education for all children, equal rights, and protection from Klan violence. But they have been either neglected or maligned by most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.81 DRAHagedorn, Ann.
Summary: The surprising story of America in the year 1919--democracy under stress. In the aftermath of an unprecedented world war and a flu pandemic, Americans were full of hope for the benefits of peace. But instead, the fear of terrorism filled their days. Bolshevism was the new menace, and the federal government, utilizing a vast network of domestic spies, began to watch anyone deemed suspicious. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.913 HEGWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: "On August 28, 1963, a quarter of a million activists and demonstrators from every corner of the United States convened for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was there that they raised their voices in unison to call for racial and economic justice for all Black Americans, to call out inequities, and ultimately to advance the Civil Rights Movement. Every movement has its unsung...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022