Barbara Krauthamer, Chad Williams

Major Problems in African American History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This text introduces you to both primary sources -- straight from the frontlines of history -- and analytical essays, and is designed to encourage critical thinking about the history and culture of African Americans. The carefully selected readings give you many opportunities to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of distinguished historians, and draw your own conclusions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cengage Learning
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 279mm x 216mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 862g
• ISBN-13: 9780357047590
• ISBN-10: 0357047591
• Artikelnr.: 68053981

Autorenporträt

Barbara Krauthamer is associate professor of history and associate dean of the Graduate School at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She received her bachelor�s degree from Dartmouth College and her doctorate from Princeton University. She is the author of two books and many articles on the history of slavery and emancipation. She has written Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South. She is the coauthor of Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery. The latter book was awarded the 2013 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Nonfiction and received Honorable Mention from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. She has received grants and awards from the Association of Black Women Historians; the National Endowment for the Humanities; Stanford University�s Research Institute for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity; Yale University�s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition; the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin; and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Her current research focuses on enslaved women�s lives during the era of the American Revolution.