American Realities with Bill Youngs
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      • Table of Contents
      • Preface
      • Chapter 1: The Ministers and Their Times
      • Chapter 2: The Minister's Calling
      • Epilogue
      • Appendix: Length of Ministerial Settlement
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    • The Congregationalists >
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    • Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life >
      • Prologue: The South Pacific, 1943 >
        • Eleanor Roosevelt South Pacific
      • A Victorian Family
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      • Eleanor and Franklin
      • A Politician's Wife
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      • On Her Own
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      • Volume One >
        • The Native Americans
        • The English Background
        • The British American
        • Reform in Colonial America
        • Divided Loyalties
        • The American Revolution
        • Testing the Constitution
        • Republican Nationalism
        • The Limits of Jacksonian Democracy
        • Abolitionists and Anti-abolitionists
        • Texas Revolution
        • Reform in the Early Republic
        • Manifest Destiny
        • A Slave's Story
        • The Civil War >
          • Two Soldiers
      • Volume Two >
        • The “Taming” of the West
        • Beyond Emancipation
        • The New Industrial Era
        • The Birth of Environmentalism
        • New Immigrants
        • Expanding American Democracy
        • World War I
        • Modernity versus Tradition
        • The New Deal
        • Total War
        • The Cold War
        • The Civil Rights Movement
        • Turmoil on the Campuses
        • The New Computer Age
        • America, the Cold War, and Beyond
      • Additional Essays >
        • Norsemen in the New World
    • The Fair and the Falls >
      • Part I: Possessing the Falls >
        • Chapter One: James Glover: Purchasing the Falls
        • Chapter Two: Waiting for the Indians
        • Chapter Three: Harnessing the Falls
        • Chapter Four: "The World's Fair of the Northwest"
        • Chapter Five: The City Beside the Falls
      • Part II: Rediscovering the Falls >
        • Chapter Six: The Twilight of Old Spokane
        • Chapter Seven: Urban Blight and Urban Renewal
        • Chapter Eight: King Cole and The Heart of a City
        • Chapter Nine: Visualizing a World's Fair
      • Part III Redesigning the Falls >
        • Chapter Ten: From Spokane to Paris >
          • Tom Foley's Turn
        • Chapter Eleven: Wooing the Foreign Exhibitors
        • Chapter Twelve: Wooing the Domestic Exhibitors
        • Chapter Thirteen: The Environmental Debate
        • Chapter Fourteen: Building the Fair
        • Chapter Fifteen: Marketing, Money, and Management
      • Part IV: The Fair by the Falls >
        • Chapter Sixteen: Opening Day
        • Chapter Seventeen: A Mingling of Peoples
        • Chapter Eighteen: Days at the Fair
        • Chapter Nineteen: The Press of New Ideas
        • Chapter Twenty: The Final Tally
      • Part V: An American Environment >
        • Chapter Twenty-One: Spokane Falls, An American Environment
      • The Fair and the Falls Map
Bibliography

DU BOIS, W. E. B. Souls of Black Folk (1903 and later editions). Poetic history of the Reconstruction era by Washington’s chief critic. (Full view on Google Books)

GILMORE, GLENDA ELIZABETH. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896–1920 (1996). Suggests that women were more open than men to allowing African Americans to vote.

HARLAN, LOUIS R. Booker T. Washington: The Making of a Black Leader, 1856–1901 (1972). Fine biography revealing complexity of Washington and his times.

———. Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915 (1983). Extensive account of Washington’s Tuskegee years.

LITWACK, LEON F. Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery (1979). Sensitive recreation of the experience of southern blacks and whites in the first years of freedom.

RICHARDSON, HEATHER COX. West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War (2008).Provides a broad view of Reconstruction, arguing that the years after the Civil War inaugurated patterns in American political life that are still influential today.

ROSE, WILLIE LEE. Rehearsal for Reconstruction (1964). Describes northern efforts to provide a model at Port Royal for the economic and educational progress of ex-slaves.

WASHINGTON, BOOKER T. Up from Slavery (1901 and later editions). Autobiographical account of Washington’s life to the time of the Atlanta Exposition address. (Full view on Google Books)

WEST, MICHAEL RUDOLPH. The Education of Booker T. Washington: American Democracy and the Idea of Race Relations (2005). West explores Washington’s effort to seek racial progress within the framework of segregation.

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