Greg Iles is back, and his new thriller channels the storytelling style of William Faulkner
…uncover many long-buried secrets from the South’s deadly civil-rights struggle: Penn’s father, Tom Cage, a Natchez family physician beloved by blacks and whites alike, is about to be charged with…
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Todd S. Purdum’s new book about landmark civil-rights legislation looks back at a Congress capable of compromise
…grassroots social movements, national politics, and public policy. In the popular public imagination, consistently stuck in a rather naïve frame of historical consciousness, events like these tend to be reduced…
In A Late Encounter with the Civil War, Michael Kreyling continues his exploration of collective memory
…the Civil War center on “the first two official commemorations of the War, its semicentennial and its centennial,” as well as the ongoing sesquicentennial. “We use personal and collective memory…
In The Adventures of Henry Thoreau, Michael Sims follows along the path of self-discovery that led to Walden Pond
…with remorse after whipping an insolent ten-year-old named Daniel Potter. “Although at last he had indulged in a paradoxical bout of violence,” Sims writes, “Henry—always a master of rationalization—managed to…
Aram Goudsouzian’s new book recounts the story of James Meredith’s final push for civil rights
…was suffering from internal tumult after the fiery black nationalist Stokely Carmichael deposed John Lewis, an ally of King and an advocate of biracial activism. The mainstream NAACP and the…
February 6, 2014 Aram Goudsouzian’s previous two books consider the lives of actor/director Sidney Poitier and basketball legend Bill Russell, both major cultural icons–and civil-rights activists– during the 1960s. In…
