Category: History

  • Author Explores Racial Mixing In New Historical Novel VPR News Vermont Public Radio 2012-03-14 Neal Charnoff, Reporter; Local Host All Things Considered We last heard from writer Lisa Alther in 2007, when she spoke with VPR’s Neal Charnoff about her memoir, Kinfolks. Alther has returned to fiction in a big way with her epic historical…

  • A Heritage Celebration: Event recognizes both Hispanic and Native American roots with symposium and several performances San Marcos Daily Record San Marcos, Texas 2011-08-12 San Marcos — San Marcos will experience a unique, two-in-one heritage celebration in a combination of two nationally recognized heritage months — Hispanic and Native American — on Saturday, Oct. 1…

  • George Reid Andrews has given us a major revision and reconstruction of black history in Argentina since the time of independence, making an exciting and important contribution to both Latin American and Afro-American history. Along the way, he explodes long-held myths, solves a major historical mystery, and documents contributions of blacks to a society that…

  • Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000 Oxford University Press May 2004 304 pages 15 illus. & 3 maps; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 Hardback ISBN13: 9780195152326; ISBN10: 0195152328 Paperback ISBN13: 978-0-19-515233-3; ISBN10: 0-19-515233-6 George Reid Andrews, Distinguished Professor of History University of Pittsburgh Winner of the Arthur P. Whitaker Prize of the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies While…

  • Historical trauma: The impact of colonial racism on contemporary relations between African Americans and Mexican immigrants Colorado State University Spring 2011 114 pages Publication Number: AAT 1492454 ISBN: 9781124645148 Noah M. Wright Submitted by Noah M. Wright Department of Ethnic Studies In partial fulfillment of the requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts Colorado…

  • ‘It gives me gooseflesh’: Remarkable find in South Side attic Chicago Sun-Times 2012-03-10 Kim Janssen, Staff Reporter Richard Theodore Greener (1844-1922), Harvard Class of 1870 It wasn’t much more than a ghost house by the time Rufus McDonald got the call. The front door of the abandoned home near 75th and Sangamon was unlocked and…

  • Letters from a Planter’s Daughter: Understanding Freedom and Independence in the Life of Susanna Townsend (1853-1869) The University of Alabama McNair Journal Volume 12  (Spring 2012) pages 145-174 R. Isabela Morales Wealthy Alabama cotton planter Samuel Townsend had already fathered eight children by the time Susanna Townsend was born in 1853—her mother, like all the…

  • Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue Palgrave Macmillan June 2006 408 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7140-1, ISBN10: 1-4039-7140-4 Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-0-230-10837-0, ISBN10: 0-230-10837-7 John D. Garrigus, Associate Professor of History University of Texas, Arlington   Winner of the Society for French Historical Studies 2007 Gilbert Chinard Prize!…

  • Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization LSU Press September 1992 352 pages 6.00 x 9.00 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780807117743 Edited by: Arnold R. Hirsch, University Research Professor of History University of New Orleans Joseph Logsdon This collection of six original essays explores the peculiar ethnic composition and history of New Orleans, which the authors persuasively…

  • Northwest of Manhattan where the New York-New Jersey boundary crosses the tree-covered ridges and hollows ridges and hollows of the Ramapo Mountains there is a group of about 1,500 racially mixed people who have long been referred to by journalists and historians as the “Jackson Whites.”