Brilliant . . . "Redemption" is accessible and important, and we cannot really understand race or political power in modern America without understanding what happened in the South a decade after Appomattox. -Jon Meacham, "Washington Monthly."
Using his unique access to the files of the Educational Testing Service, journalist Nicholas Lemann examines how the ETS, in a program initiated by James Conant of Harvard University, hoped to use intelligence testing to create a meritocracy that would lead America in the postwar period. A New York Times Notable Book of 1999.
An examination of the great black migration and how it changed America. The author points out that the 20th-century migration of five million people from the rural South to the urban North changed America into a place where race relations affected the texture of life everywhere.
A New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A definitive book on American history, The Promised Land is also essential reading for educators and policymakers at both national and local levels. "From the Trade Paperback edition."
The articles are written in elegant and highly polished style. It is enjoyable to read and the reader can also learn the art of elegant writing. The text is translated into English and there is an introduction by the translator on the author and his works.
Published in association with the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., "Fields of Vision: Recording a Century of American Life" is a completely new presentation of an historically significant collection of photographs. The 77,000 photographs in the Library of Congress' collection from the Resettlement Administration (RA, 1935-1937), Farm ...
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