BECOMING LUNSFORD LANE by Craig Friend, who's spent nearly a decade on this masterpiece. Born & enslaved in NC, he manumitted himself & his family, shared podiums with the major abolitionists of the day, & was a 19th-century Zelig who finally has his own biography. uncpress.org/book/9781469... - ThreadSky

dgershenowitz.bsky.social • 106 days ago

BECOMING LUNSFORD LANE by Craig Friend, who's spent nearly a decade on this masterpiece. Born & enslaved in NC, he manumitted himself & his family, shared podiums with the major abolitionists of the day, & was a 19th-century Zelig who finally has his own biography.
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469685342/becoming-lunsford-lane/

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dgershenowitz.bsky.social•106 days ago

THE MEMOIRS OF ROBERT AND MABEL WILLIAMS, ed. by Akinyele Umoja, Gloria House, & the late, great, John Bracey. Like Lunsford Lane, these fearless freedom fighters were from NC but travelled the world to amplify a Black liberation that remains utterly relevant today.
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469680132/the-memoirs-of-robert-and-mabel-williams/

dgershenowitz.bsky.social•106 days ago

THE BREACH, by Alan McPherson. When I signed this book, I espoused its relevance b/c I naively believed the rule of law would bring the president-elect to trial, as it did with Oliver North during the Iran-Contra scandal. It's absolutely chilling to read today. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469686349/the-breach/

dgershenowitz.bsky.social•106 days ago

UNCEASING MILITANT, 2ND EDITION, by @alisonparker. For all who learned about this remarkable woman in the first edition, now you can teach your students about Mary Church Terrell with this paperback that includes a new preface by the author. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469684055/unceasing-militant-second-edition/

dgershenowitz.bsky.social•106 days ago

THE AGE OF THE BORDERLANDS, by Drew Isenberg. The latest title in the New Borderlands History series sponsored by @catehodorowicz.bsky.social & now edited by Ben Johnson & Andy Graybill. Drew's new history of Manifest Destiny will be an instant classic.
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469685052/the-age-of-the-borderlands/

dgershenowitz.bsky.social•106 days ago

SEARCHING FOR MEMORY, by Jake Blanc. The author's many hours of interviews with Brazilian journalist Aluízio Ferreira Palmar shows us that it's not only possible to survive a dictatorship, but it can make us fight harder for justice. May we all be inspired by him. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469681030/searching-for-memory/

dgershenowitz.bsky.social•106 days ago

EXCEPTIONALISM IN CRISIS, by @alysbeverton.bsky.social. For many Americans in the 19thc, Mexico was regarded as the unstable, uncivilized, revolution-prone nation to the South - an example of what the US would never be. The Civil War made them revisit these assumptions. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469685212/exceptionalism-in-crisis/

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