Southern Association for Women Historians Julia Cherry Spruill Prize “The definitive history of the UDC.”—Daily Beast “Highlights the central role the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) played in creating and sustaining the myth of the Lost Cause in early-twentieth-century southern culture.”—Choice “This younger generation of white southern women was committed to the public vindication … Continue reading Dixie’s Daughters, with a New Preface
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Legacy of Selma Today
By Joe Street and Henry Knight Lozano, coeditors of The Shadow of Selma The Trump presidency seems to have reignited popular protest in numerous ways—sometimes troubling, sometimes inspiring. We need only look to the women’s marches, the furor over the travel ban, the militant response to fascists openly marching in Charlottesville, and the astonishing, heart-rending … Continue reading Martin Luther King Jr. and the Legacy of Selma Today
The Statues That Speak for Us
Written by Regis M. Fox, author of Resistance Reimagined: Black Women’s Critical Thought as Survival. This book is a part of our Women's History Month sale, running now through March 31, 2021. To order, visit our website and use code WHM21 at checkout. Events in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017 brought matters of race and … Continue reading The Statues That Speak for Us
5 Books on the True History Behind Confederate Monuments
Note to our readers: We are no longer giving away free PDFs of Dixie’s Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture by Karen L. Cox and Recalling Deeds Immortal: Florida Monuments to the Civil War by William B. Lees and Frederick P. Gaske. If you would like to order … Continue reading 5 Books on the True History Behind Confederate Monuments
An Author’s Response to Charlottesville
I was honored that I could add my voice to something that is not only a national conversation, but an international one." In the wake of events in Charlottesville last weekend, University Press of Florida author and University of North Carolina at Charlotte history professor Karen Cox was called upon as an expert to comment … Continue reading An Author’s Response to Charlottesville
The Florida Bookshelf 