Nina Moore: 16 books
An Analysis of Independent Restaurants Featuring Organic Food in Metropolitan Cities in the United States
A Quantitative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
This book is about independent restaurants that feature organic food on their menus in metropolitan cities in the United States. The authors hope that the current book has encapsulated a timely scholarly analysis that sheds an important light on some of the chief factors that impinge upon the successes...
by Nicholas Royle, Guy Ware, Charles Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2013
The third in a series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2013 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2012. These stories appeared in magazines from the Edinburgh Review to Granta, in anthologies from various publishers, and in authors’ own...
Loyalty in Time of Trial
The African American Experience During World War I
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Nearly 370,000 black soldiers served in the military during World War I, and some 400,000 black civilians migrated from the rural South to the urban North for defense jobs. Following the war, emboldened by their military service and their support of the war on the home front, African Americans were...
Between Slavery and Freedom
Free People of Color in America From Settlement to the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
In Between Slavery and Freedom, Julie Winch explores the complex world of those people of African birth or descent who occupied the “borderlands” between slavery and freedom in the 350 years from the founding of the first European colonies in what is today the United States to the start of the...
Paying Freedom's Price
A History of African Americans in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Paying Freedom's Price provides a comprehensive yet brief and readable history of the role of African Americans—both slave and free—from the decade leading up to the Civil War until its immediate aftermath. Rather than focusing on black military service, the white-led abolitionist movement, or...
by Neil A. Wynn, Jacqueline M. Moore, Nina Mjagkij
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
Drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and research, Neil A. Wynn combines narrative history and primary sources as he locates the World War II years within the long-term struggle for African Americans' equal rights. It is now widely accepted that these years were crucial in the development...
Enjoy the Same Liberty
Black Americans and the Revolutionary Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
In this cohesive narrative, Edward Countryman explores the American Revolution in the context of the African American experience, asking a question that blacks have raised since the Revolution: What does the revolutionary promise of freedom and democracy mean for African Americans? Countryman, a Bancroft...
Apocalypse and the Millennium in the American Civil War Era
Radical Movements in the Southwest, 1895--1943
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
In the Civil War era, Americans nearly unanimously accepted that humans battled in a cosmic contest between good and evil and that God was directing history toward its end. The concept of God's Providence and of millennialism -- Christian anticipations of the end of the world -- dominated religious...
A. Philip Randolph
A Life in the Vanguard
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2006
Before the emergence of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., there were several key leaders who fought for civil rights in the United States. Among them was A. Philip Randolph, who perhaps best embodied the hopes, ideals, and aspirations of black Americans. Born in the South at the start of the Jim Crow...
by Charles M. Schulz, Jeff Dyer, Bob Scott
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
Celebrate over 65 years of Charles M. Schulz’s beloved character Charlie Brown. From visits to Lucy’s lemonade stand to missing the football again, this collection is jam-packed with some of the best stories starring everyone’s favorite kid next door.
The African American Experience in Vietnam
Brothers in Arms
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
In this book James E. Westheider explores the social and professional paradoxes facing African-American soldiers in Vietnam. Service in the military started as a demonstration of the merits of integration as blacks competed with whites on a near equal basis for the first time. Military service, especially...
Through the Storm, Through the Night
A History of African American Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
Paul Harvey illustrates how black Christian traditions provided theological, institutional, and personal strategies for cultural survival during bondage and into an era of partial freedom. At the same time, he covers the ongoing tug-of-war between themes of "respectability" versus practices...
by Betty Wood, Jacqueline M. Moore, Nina Mjagkij
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2005
Slavery in Colonial America, 1619–1776 brings together original sources and recent scholarship to trace the origins and development of African slavery in the American colonies. Distinguished scholar Betty Wood clearly explains the evolution of the transatlantic slave trade and compares the regional...
More Than a Game
A History of the African American Experience in Sport
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African American community, and the United States more generally. Recognizing the complicated history of race in America and how sport can both divide and bring...
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