1838-1905

"Documents the story of the infamous nineteenth-century Supreme Court ruling in favor of segregation, tracing the half-century of history that shaped the ruling and the reverberations that are still being felt today"--OCLC.

"During one of the darkest periods of U.S. history, when white supremacy was entrenching itself throughout the nation, the white writer-jurist-activist Albion W. Tourg?e (1838-1905) forged an extraordinary alliance with African Americans. ... Tourg?e offers an ideal lens through which to reexamine the often caricatured relations between progressive whites and African Americans. He collaborated closely with African Americans in founding an interracial civil rights organization eighteen years before the inception of the NAACP, ... Here Carolyn L. Karcher provides the first in-depth account of this collaboration. Drawing on Tourg?e's vast correspondence ..., on African American newspapers and on his newspaper column"--Back cover.

Profiles the lives and relationships of five figures who helped the United States become a major player in world politics at the dawn of the twentieth century.

The literature on Art Nouveau is extensive but little mention has been made of the man who created the name, Siegfried Bing, a leading figure in fin de siecle decorative arts and a moving force in the style that swept through Western Europe and the United States. Weisberg, along with SITES, has produced a visually delightful, detailed tribute to this elusive but effective artist-entrepreneur. The catalog traces Bing's life, involvement in Japanese arts, the creation of the gallery ``L'Art Nouveau'' and the atelier that flourished under his supervision. It was a union of art and industry aimed at design reform with an international style and no distinction between major or minor, fine or applied arts. Useful for art libraries. Paula Frosch, Metropolitan Museum Lib., New York.

Follows Lincoln's presidential secretaries, John Hay and John Nicolay, through the Civil War years, including letters, diaries, and memoirs as primary sources.

Presents the life and works of a leading Northern writer of Reconstruction literature.