The Gettysburg Address
Found insideThe Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, one of the best-known in American history. From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the ...
Found insideThis book examines the social and political impact of the Supreme Court's decisions involving race relations from Plessy, the Progressive Era, and the Interwar period to World Wars I and II, Brown and the Civil Rights Movement. Living in Infamy: Felon Disfranchisement and the History of ...
Living in Infamy uncovers the origins of felon disfranchisement and traces the expansion of the practice to felons regardless of race and its spread beyond the South, establishing a system that affects the American electoral process today. American Government
The book builds upon what students have already learned and emphasizes connections between topics as well as between theory and applications. Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil ...
The story of how Congress helped win the Civil War--a new perspective that puts the House and Senate, rather than Lincoln, at the center of the conflict. Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the ...
The abolition of slavery after the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that transformed the nation after World War II. But the century in between remains a mystery: if emancipation sparked 'a new birth of ... Moyers on Democracy
But he is also one of America's most sought-after public speakers. In this collection of speeches, Moyers celebrates the promise of American democracy and offers a passionate defense of its principles of fairness and justice. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
Describes the changes brought about by the Civil War, discusses the impact of slavery's end, and looks at the political, economic, and social aspects of Reconstruction.