Highlights from our 2021 SHA Virtual Booth

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The Citizenship Education Program and Black Women’s Political Culture

Deanna M. Gillespie

Southern Dissent

This book details how African American women used lessons in basic literacy to crack the foundation of white supremacy and sow seeds for collective action during the civil rights movement.

Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era

Jonathan A. Noyalas

Southern Dissent

This book examines the complexities of life for African Americans in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley from the antebellum period through Reconstruction, showing how enslaved and free African Americans resisted slavery and supported the Union war effort in a borderland that changed hands frequently during the Civil War.

People Power: History, Organizing, and Larry Goodwyn’s Democratic Vision in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Wesley C. Hogan and Paul Ortiz

Featuring contributions from leading scholar-activists, this book demonstrates how the lessons of history can inform the building of new social justice movements today.

Political Thought and the Origins of the American Presidency

Edited by Ben Lowe

The Alan B. and Charna Larkin Series on the American Presidency

This volume examines the political ideas behind the construction of the presidency in the U.S. Constitution, as well as how these ideas were implemented by the nation’s early presidents.

A Punkhouse in the Deep South: The Oral History of 309

Aaron Cometbus and Scott Satterwhite

Told in personal interviews, this is the collective story of a punk community in an unlikely town and region, a hub of radical counterculture that drew artists and musicians from throughout the conservative South and earned national renown.

Now in Paperback