Focuses on labor and politics to help develop broader interpretive trends in the post-emancipation US South.

At a public picnic in the South in the 1890s, a young man paid five cents for his first chance to hear the revolutionary Edison talking machine. He eagerly list

African American history is the part of American history that looks at the past of African Americans or Black Americans. Of the 10.7 million Africans who were b

The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most influential Black intellectual of his time. This pioneering wo

A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Dou