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I Freed Myself: African American Self-Emancipation in the Civil War Era
For a century and a half, Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation has been the dominant narrative of African American freedo…
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Britain Against the Xhosa and Zulu Peoples: Lord Chelmsford's South African Campaigns
Britain’s war against the Zulu people of southern Africa in the late nineteenth century is one of the most famous clashes in the history of the Bri…
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War! What Is It Good For?: Black Freedom Struggles and the U.S. Military from World War II to Iraq
African Americans' long campaign for "the right to fight" forced Harry Truman to issue his 1948 executive order calling for equality …
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Kenya's Freedom Struggle: The Dedan Kimathi Papers
The British captured extensive archives belonging to the Mau Mau, which to this day have not been made public. Here for the first time, as a result…
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Kenya's War of Independence: Mau Mau and its Legacy of Resistance to Colonialism and Imperialism, 1948-1990
Kenya's War of Independence restores Kenya’s stolen history to its rightful place, stripped of colonial interpretations. In this expanded and…
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Dedan Kimathi on Trial: Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya’s Mau Mau Rebellion
The transcript from this historic trial, long thought destroyed or hidden, unearths a piece of the British colonial archive at a critical point i…
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Black Soldiers of New York State: A Proud Legacy
Concise history of the valiant service of New York’s African American soldiers. The heroic saga of New York State’s African American soldiers, lar…
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Zulu Warriors:The Battle for the South African Frontier
Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the British embarked on a concerted series of campaigns in South Africa. Within three years they waged fi…
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Modern African Conflicts An Encyclopedia of Civil Wars, Revolutions, and Terrorism
Armed conflict represents a substantial part of African history since around 1960, yet this history is either insufficiently taught or overshadow…
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Black Poppies: Britain's Black Community and the Great War
In this updated edition of his acclaimed study of the black presence in Britain during the First World War, Stephen Bourne illuminates fascinating …
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The Buffalo Soldier Tragedy of 1877
In the middle of thearid summer of 1877, a drought year in West Texas, a troop of some forty buffalo soldiers (African American cavalry led by whi…
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Pichon: Race and Revolution in Castro's Cuba: A Memoir
Revolutionary black nationalist Carlos Moore breaks three decades of silence to challenge Castro’s legacy in this controversial, behind-the-scenes…
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African American Medicine in Washington, D.C.: Healing the Capital During the Civil War Era
The service of African Americans in defense of the Union during the Civil War required African American nurses, doctors and surgeons to heal those …
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Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth
More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 10…
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The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship
A stunning collection of stoic portraits and intimate ephemera from the lives of Black Civil War soldiers Though both the Union and Confederate …
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