It was a phrase that consumed the American imagination in the 1960s and 70s and inspired a new agenda for black freedom. Dynamic and transformational, the black power movement embodied more than media stereotypes of gun-toting, dashiki-wearing black radicals; the movement opened new paths to equality through political and economic empowerment.
In popular stereotypes, local grocers were avuncular men who spent their days in pickle-barrel conversations and checkers games; they were backward small-town merchants resistant to modernizing impulses. Cornering the Market challenges these conventions to demonstrate that nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century grocers were important but unsung innovators of business models and retail technologies that fostered the rise of contemporary retailing.
Tammy L. Brown uses the life stories of Caribbean intellectuals as "windows" into the dynamic history of immigration to New York and the long battle for racial equality in modern America
From Eve to Evolution provides the first full-length study of American womens responses to evolutionary theory and illuminates the role science played in the nineteenth-century womens rights movement.
During the first two decades following the Mexican Revolution, children in the country gained unprecedented consideration as viable cultural critics, social actors, and subjects of reform.
Space and Conversion in Global Perspective examines experiences of conversion as they intersect with physical location, mobility, and interiority. The volume's innovative approach is global and encompasses multiple religious traditions. Conversion emerges as a powerful force in early modern globalization.
Associate Professor of History Martin Johnson's book Writing the Gettysburg Address (2013, University Press of Kansas) won the prestigious 2014 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, which includes a $25,000 prize.
From Eve to Evolution provides the first full-length study of American womens responses to evolutionary theory and illuminates the role science played in the nineteenth-century womens rights movement.