In this highly-anticipated new work, Christopher Waldrep takes a fresh look at how the Vicksburg ...

In 1937 the Supreme Court revolutionized American constitutionalism, sharply restricting the stat...

An examination of the historical experience of African Americans as a case study of America's leg...

Violence forms a constant backdrop to American history, from the revolutionary overthrow of Briti...

In American history, students are taught about the three branches of government. Most of the time...

Whether conveyed through newspapers, photographs, or Billie Holliday's haunting song 'Strange Fru...

Race and National Power: A Sourcebook of Black Civil Rights from 1862 to 1954 gathers together a ...

'A well-researched work of creative scholarship . . . Waldrep's book is an important contribution...

In 1906 a white lawyer named Dabney Marshall argued a case before the Mississippi Supreme Court d...

Much of the current reassessment of race, culture, and criminal justice in the nineteenth-century...

'A well-researched work of creative scholarship . . . Waldrep's book is an important contribution...