William H Chafe
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It was 1863. Abraham Galloway--son of a white father and an enslaved mother--stood next to the Army recruiter, holding a gun to the soldier's head. He had escaped slavery in the hold of a ship four years earlier, fleeing to Canada, then became a master spy for the Union Army. Now, in the days after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, Galloway had returned to North Carolina, becoming the leader of more than 4,000 escaped slaves who...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Strauss and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In previous works the author has written powerfully about the relationship between personality and politics. This book represents the culmination of this approach to political history. Having written widely on civil rights and women's history, the author brings the themes of all his scholarship together in this book about the Clintons' "co-presidency," two people committed to both sex and race equality. From the beginning, he argues, the personal...
Author
Series
Galaxy book volume GB 644
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
12) Fantastic lies
Series
30 for 30 volume season 3, no. 7
Publisher
ESPN Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
On March 13, 2006, a group of Duke University lacrosse players threw a team party that ended up changing lives, ruining careers, tarnishing a university's reputation and even jeopardizing the future of the sport at the school. Acclaimed director Marina Zenovich ('Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired') delves into the party that ignited a national firestorm and resulted in a highly-charged legal investigation with its underlying themes of sex, race,...