Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital
Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove
D.C.'s massive social transformations are chronicled here--from a sparsely inhabited plantation society into a diverse metropolis, from a center of the slave trade to the nation's first black-majority city, from "Chocolate City" to "Latte City." Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America's expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war, and gentrification. This is the story of the District’s rich history of activism as Washingtonians of all races have struggled to make their voices heard in the national capital city where residents still lack full political rights.
A native of D.C. and a proud graduate of D.C. public schools, Chris Myers Asch teaches history at Colby College and serves as Editor of Washington History magazine. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina and wrote The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer (2008). He now lives in central Maine with his wife and their three children.
George Derek Musgrove is an Associate Professor of history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He earned his Ph.D. from New York University and is the author of Rumor, Repression, and Racial Politics (U. of Georgia, 2012) and a number of scholarly articles on post-civil rights era and Washington, D.C. politics. Derek lives with his wife and two sons in Washington, D.C.
Reparations for Slavery and the Atlantic Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History
Ana Lucia Araujo
Slavery and the Atlantic slave trade are among the most heinous crimes against humanity committed in the modern era. Yet, to this day no former slave society in the Americas has paid reparations to former slaves or their descendants. This is the first book to offer a transnational narrative history of the financial, material, and symbolic reparations for slavery and the Atlantic slave trade. It argues that calls for reparations have a long and persevering history. In different periods, despite the legality of slavery, slaves and freed people were conscious of having been victims of a great injustice. This work narrates the
campaigns for reparations since the 18th century as it explores the history and the memory of the Atlantic slave trade, slavery, and their social and cultural legacies.
Araujo has been professor of History at Howard University since 2014. She is the author of more than 10 books and 50 articles on the themes of public memory, heritage, and visual culture of slavery. She is a member of the Editorial Review Board of the African Studies Review published by the African Studies Association. At the meeting of the AHA in January she will be commentator of the panel “Final Passages, Part 2: New Perspectives on the Intra-American Slave Trading Routes.” Born in Brazil, where she was educated through her masters, she has earned doctorates in both Canada and France.
A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time: Julia Wilbur’s Struggle for Purpose
Paula Tarnapol Whitacre
The diaries of a Civil War nurse and other primary sources have been shaped into a historical narrative sending the reader back 150 years to understand a woman who was alternately brave, self-pitying, foresighted, petty—and all too human. Whitacre describes Wilbur’s experiences against the backdrop of Alexandria, Virginia, a southern town held by the Union from 1861 to 1865; of Washington DC, where Wilbur became active in the women’s suffrage movement and lived until her death in 1895; and of Rochester, New York, a hotbed of social reform and home to Wilbur’s acquaintances Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony.
Whitacre grew up in New London, Connecticut, and has lived in Alexandria where she worked as a freelance writer and editor for many years. She has her bachelor's and master's degrees in International Studies from Johns Hopkins University. She has worked at the Washington Post and as a Foreign Service Officer in Costa Rica, and now for an environmental education project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Glorious Times: Adventures of the Craighead Naturalists
Thomas Benjey
This is the story of an American clan of Scots-Irish that settled in the early 1700s in Pennsylvania. From this clan came an astonishing number exceptional people, many of whom dedicated their lives to nature. The book covers many generations, but focuses most attention on the famous siblings Frank Jr., John, and Jean (Craighead George).
The second of ten children, Benjey grew up in a home of modest means in a small town in downstate Illinois where he operated the family bicycle shop. He attended
Northwestern University on scholarship for just one year before joining the US Air Force. This took him to the Philippines, Viet Nam and Thailand. Benjey earned his B.S. in Mathematics from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and his M.S. in Computer Science from Shippensburg State College.
Lincoln: The Man Who Saved America
David J. Kent
This book offers a unique view of Abraham Lincoln’s life in a format that blends the best of vivid writing with a graphical novel feel, complete with many spectacular photos, cartoons, and drawings. It tells the story of a man who excelled beyond anyone's imagination, and who rose to power during the nation's most demanding trials. It contains many things about Lincoln they may not have read in other biographies.
Kent is a scientist, traveler, and Abraham Lincoln historian. He has published biographies about Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla. Over a thirty-five year scientific career he has been a marine biologist, an environmental toxicologist, and international consultant. Kent has also been president of three different scientific organizations, chaired a variety of scientific groups and conferences, and won several science awards. He enjoys being an independent Abraham Lincoln historian and currently serves as the Vice President for Programs for the Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia.
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