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

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...

The Civil War shook America to the core of its constitutional foundations. Before the war, the Co...

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...

'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...

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

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

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...

This book examines African Americans' strategies for resisting white racial violence from the Civ...