Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century
This book explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Langston Hughes, and their little-known Chinese allies during World War II and the Cold War-journalist, musician, and Christian activist Liu Liangmo, and Sino-Caribbean dancer-choreographer Sylvia ......
Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy
As the sectional crisis gripped the United States, the rancor increasingly spread to the halls of Congress. Preston Brooks's frenzied assault on Charles Sumner was perhaps the most notorious evidence of the dangerous divide between proslavery Democrats and the new antislavery Republican Party. But as disunion loomed, rifts within the majority ......
Delving into the intersection of television entertainment and American politics during the 1970s, focusing on the sitcom All in the Family, this book explores how political campaigns, social movements, and legislators leveraged the show's popularity for their own agendas. From Archie Bunker's reactionary bigotry, to Edith Bunker's symbolic role in ......
Delving into the intersection of television entertainment and American politics during the 1970s, focusing on the sitcom All in the Family, this book explores how political campaigns, social movements, and legislators leveraged the show's popularity for their own agendas. From Archie Bunker's reactionary bigotry, to Edith Bunker's symbolic role in ......
In Archaeology at Colonial Brunswick, Stanley South recounts the decade-long excavation of this important North Carolina colonial port. He provides historical context and detailed interpretation of the many hundreds of objects uncovered. South's narrative guides the reader through a town and a way of life that ended more than two centuries ago. ......
America's Wars in Asia from the Philippines to Vietnam
Although conventionally treated as separate, America's four wars in Asia were actually phases in a sustained U.S. bid for regional dominance, according to Michael H. Hunt and Steven I. Levine. This effort unfolded as an imperial project in which military power and the imposition of America's political will were crucial. Devoting equal attention to ......
This issue of the Appalachian Review (formerly Appalachian Heritage) features fiction from Gavin Colton and Christopher Labaza creative nonfiction from Jacquelyn Scott and Michael Dowdy poetry from Jeremy Paden, Rebecca Lilly, David S. Higdon, Jaycee Billington, Ace Englehart, Katy Luxem, and Adam Moore an interview with poet Marianne Worthington, ......
This issue of the Appalachian Review features creative nonfiction from Ann Pancake, Jarred Johnson, Sarah Ladd, and Nancy Luana Wilkes fiction from Jeff Wallace poetry from Terry L. Kennedy, Emry Trantham, Dorothy Neagle, Faiz Ahmad, Josh Nicolaisen, Burnside Soleil, Jeff Tigchelaar, Ashley Danielle Ry, Sara Jeanine Smith, Cecilia Durbin, and ......
This issue of the Appalachian Review features creative nonfiction from Ashley Anderson and Lindsey Pharr fiction from Mindy Misener poetry from John Brooks, Ann DeVilbiss, CJ Farnsworth, Tamara J. Madison, Garrett Stack, Chad Weeden, and Kate Wright a conversation with Ross Gay and more. For more information including how to subscribe to the ......
