University of Georgia Press Bücher

Offers perspectives on civil rights. This anthology gathers works by some of the influential writers to engage issues of race and social justice in America, including James Baldwin, Flannery O'Connor, Amiri Baraka, and Nikki Giovanni.

From the earliest European colonization to the present, New Yorkers have been revolting. Hard hitting, revealing, and insightful, Revolting New York tells the story of New York's evolution through revolution, a story of near- continuous popular (and sometimes not-so-popular) uprising. číst celé

Explores the influence of the Peabody Awards Collection as an archive of the vital medium of TV, These essays turn their attention to the wealth of programs considered for Peabody Awards that were not honoured and thus have largely been forgotten and yet have the potential to reshape our understanding of American television history.

Presents the complete texts of all known correspondence between Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) and Joseph Hopkins Twichell. Theirs was a rich exchange. The long, deep friendship of Clemens and Twichell rarely fails to surprise, given the general reputation Twain has of being antireligious. číst celé

The charismatic Rev. Peter Thomas Stanford (1860-1909) rose from humble and challenging beginnings to emerge as an inventive and passionate activist and educator who championed social justice. This collection highlights Stanford's writings: sermons, lectures, newspaper columns, entertainments, and memoirs.

Offers a social history of the southern colonies. John Schlotterbeck describes how social interactions between Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans from initial contacts with Europeans in the early 1500s to the eve of the American Revolution in the 1760s created new societies.