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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Amerikaanse schrijfster, Slavernij, Verenigde Staten

Judith Giesberg – Last Seen

Judith Giesberg Last Seen recensie, review en informatie boek van de Amerikaanse historicus over de voortdurende zoektocht van voorheen tot slaaf gemaakte mensen om hun verloren familie te vinden. Op 3 februari 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het boek van Judith Giesberg over de zoektocht naar de verloren families van Amerikaanse tot slaaf gemaakten. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het geschiedenisboek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Judith Giesberg Last Seen recensie, review en informatie

  • “Heartbreaking, and essential.” (Jill Lepore, Amerikaanse historicus en schrijfster)
  • “This unvarnished account reminds us that centuries of suffering have yet to be fully acknowledged or atoned for. Informative and sobering.” (Kirkus Reviews)
  • “Love speaks across miles, decades and centuries in this meticulously excavated tribute to the formerly enslaved mothers, fathers, siblings, and kin who published “last seen” advertisements in search of loved ones stolen from them in bondage. Patience and Clara Bashop, Hagar Outlaw, Tally Miller, and the other seekers featured here may or may not have succeeded in having their beloveds restored to them, but the power of their loving, the spirit of their loved ones, and the immense scope of their courage breathe off the page in this vital work of recovery.” (Ilyon Woo, author of Master, Slave, Husband, Wife)

Judith Giesberg Last Seen

Last Seen

The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families

  • Auteur: Judith Giesberg (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis, slavernijgeschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 4 februari 2025
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 29,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 25,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de zoektocht van voorheen tot slaaf gemaakte mensen naar hun verloren familie

Drawing from an archive of nearly five thousand letters and advertisements, the riveting, dramatic story of formerly enslaved people who spent years searching for family members stolen away during slavery.

Of all the many horrors of slavery, the cruelest was the separation of families in slave auctions. Spouses and siblings were sold away from one other. Young children were separated from their mothers. Fathers were sent down river and never saw their families again.

As soon as slavery ended in 1865, family members began to search for one another, in some cases persisting until as late as the 1920s. They took out “information wanted” advertisements in newspapers and sent letters to the editor. Pastors in churches across the country read these advertisements from the pulpit, expanding the search to those who had never learned to read or who did not have access to newspapers. These documents demonstrate that even as most white Americans—and even some younger Black Americans, too—wanted to put slavery in the past, many former slaves, members of the “Freedom Generation,” continued for years, and even decades, to search for one another. These letters and advertisements are testaments to formerly enslaved people’s enduring love for the families they lost in slavery, yet they spent many years buried in the storage of local historical societies or on microfilm reels that time forgot.

Judith Giesberg draws on the archive that she founded—containing almost five thousand letters and advertisements placed by members of the Freedom Generation—to compile these stories in a narrative form for the first time. Her in-depth research turned up additional information about the writers, their families, and their enslavers. With this critical context, she recounts the moving stories of the people who placed the advertisements, the loved ones they tried to find, and the outcome of their quests to reunite.

This story underscores the cruelest horror of slavery—the forced breakup of families—and the resilience and determination of the formerly enslaved. Thoughtful, heart-wrenching, and illuminating, Last Seen finally gives this lesser-known aspect of slavery the attention it deserves.

Judith Giesberg was born 11 June 1966 in Texas. She is professor of history and Robert M. Birmingham chair in the humanities at Villanova University. She is the founder and director of the Last Seen archive, and the author of several books on Civil War history, including Army at Home, Emilie Davis’s Civil War, and Last Seen.

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Bennett Parten – Somewhere Toward Freedom

Bennett Parten Somewhere Toward Freedom review, recensie en informatie boek over de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog en General Sherman’s March vanuit het perspectief van zwarte Amerikanen. Op 21 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het boek van de Amerikaanse historicus Bennett Parten over Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het Amerikaanse geschiedenisboek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Bennett Parten Somewhere Toward Freedom, review, recensie en informatie

  • “Somewhere Toward Freedom is one of the most innovative studies of American emancipation in the Civil War we have ever seen, from the March to the Sea in Georgia and well beyond. An epic tale of movement, of collisions with nature, of military history of a new kind in the annals of American warfare, and of the great human drama—full of loss and tragedy and confusion—of an evolving freedom for former slaves across a vast landscape.” (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Frederick Douglass)
  • “A well-known episode in Civil War history viewed from a fresh, and illuminating, perspective.” (Kirkus Reviews)

Bennett Parten Somewhere Toward Freedom

Somewhere Toward Freedom

Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation

  • Auteur: Bennett Parten (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 21 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Prijs: $ 29.99 / $ 14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van Bennett Parten over de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog

A groundbreaking account of Sherman’s March to the Sea—the critical Civil War campaign that destroyed the Confederacy—told for the first time from the perspective of the tens of thousands of enslaved people who fled to the Union lines and transformed Sherman’s march into the biggest liberation event in American history.

In the fall of 1864, Gen. William T. Sherman led his army through Atlanta, Georgia, burning buildings of military significance—and ultimately most of the city—along the way. From Atlanta, they marched across the state to the most important city at the time: Savannah.

Mired in the deep of the South with no reliable supply lines, Sherman’s army had to live off the land and the provisions on the plantations they seized along the way. As the army marched to the east, plantation owners fled, but even before they did so, slaves self-emancipated to Union lines. By the time the army seized Savannah in December, as many as 20,000 enslaved people had attached themselves to Sherman’s army. They endured hardships, marching as much as twenty miles a day—often without food or shelter from the winter weather—and at times Union commanders discouraged and even prevented the self-emancipated from staying with the army. Racism was not confined to the Confederacy.

In Somewhere Toward Freedom, historian Bennett Parten brilliantly reframes this seminal episode in Civil War history. He not only helps us understand how Sherman’s March impacted the war, and what it meant to the enslaved, but also reveals how it laid the foundation for the fledging efforts of Reconstruction. When the war ended, Sherman and various government and private aid agencies seized plantation lands—particularly in the sea islands off the Georgia and South Carolina coasts—in order to resettle the newly emancipated. They were fed, housed, and in some instances, taught to read and write. This first real effort at Reconstruction was short-lived, however. As federal troops withdrew to the north, Confederate sympathizers and Southern landowners eventually brought about the downfall of this program.

Sherman’s march has remained controversial to this day. But as Parten reveals, it played a significant role in ending the Civil War, due in no small part to the efforts of the tens of thousands of enslaved people who became a part of it. In Somewhere Toward Freedom, this critical moment in American history has finally been given the attention it deserves.

Bennett Parten is an assistant professor of history at Georgia Southern University whose area of expertise is the Civil War period. He is a native of Royston, Georgia, and completed his PhD in history at Yale University. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Zocalo Public Square, and The Civil War Monitor, among others. He currently lives in Savannah, Georgia.

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Amerikaans historicus

Juan Williams – New Prize for These Eyes

Juan Williams New Prize for These Eyes review, recensie en informatie boek over de Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement. Op 14 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het boek van de Amerikaanse historicus en journalist Juan Williams over de opkomst van de tweede burgerrechtenbeweging in de Verenigde Staten. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Juan Williams New Prize for These Eyes review, recensie en informatie

  • “Nearly four decades after his Eyes on the Prize heralded the heroes of the Civil Rights era, Juan Williams takes a compelling look at how far America has come in the years since–and how far we have to go.” (David Axelrod, former chief strategist and senior advisor to President Barack Obama)
  • “Williams’ arresting prose and keen insights into this unfolding, volcanic movement are essential reading for those who want to ensure that this nation’s ‘new birth of freedom’ continues unabated and unstoppable. There is no better person to write the book on the new movement to make this a more perfect union than the author who wrote the book on the first one.” (Donna Brazile, New York Times-bestselling author of Hacks)

Juan Williams New Prize for These Eyes

New Prize for These Eyes

The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement

  • Auteur: Juan Williams (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schsuter
  • Verschijnt: 14 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 28.99 / $ 14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de tweede civil rights movement in Amerika

In this highly anticipated follow-up to Eyes on the Prize, bestselling author Juan Williams turns his attention to the rise of a new 21st-century civil rights movement.

More than a century of civil rights activism reached a mountaintop with the arrival of a Black man in the Oval Office. But hopes for a unified, post-racial America were deflated when Barack Obama’s presidency met with furious opposition. A white, right-wing backlash was brewing, and a volcanic new movement—a second civil rights movement—began to erupt.

In New Prize for These Eyes, award-winning author Juan Williams shines a light on this historic, new movement. Who are its heroes? Where is it headed? What fires, furies, and frustrations distinguish it from its predecessor?

In the 20th century, Black activists and their white allies called for equal rights and an end to segregation. They appealed to the Declaration of Independence’s defiant assertion that “all men are created equal.” They prioritized legal battles in the courtroom and legislative victories in Congress. Today’s movement is dealing with new realities. Demographic changes have placed progressive whites in a new role among the largest, youngest population of Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians in the nation’s history. The new generation is social media savvy, and they have an agenda fueled by discontent with systemic racism and the persistent scourge of police brutality. Today’s activists are making history in a new economic and cultural landscape, and they are using a new set of tools and strategies to do so.

Williams brilliantly traces the arc of this new civil rights era, from Obama to Charlottesville to January 6th and a Confederate flag in the Capitol. An essential read for activists, historians, and anyone passionate about America’s future, New Prize for These Eyes is more than a recounting of history. It is a forward-looking call to action, urging Americans to get in touch with the progress made and hurdles yet to be overcome.

Juan Williams was born on 10 April 1954 in Colón, Panama. He is a Panamanian-American prizewinning journalist and historian. He is the author of the bestselling civil rights history Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years 1954–1965, which accompanied the PBS series of the same name. He also wrote the landmark biography of the first African American on the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary, as well as the New York Times bestsellers Enough and Muzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate. Williams worked for The Washington Post as a celebrated national political correspondent, White House correspondent, and editorial writer. His NPR talk show took ratings to a new high. He has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Ebony. He is currently senior political analyst for Fox News Channel and a columnist for The Hill.

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Willem F. Korthals Altes – Nederlandse kolonisten in Amerika en de Liga der Irokezen

Willem F. Korthals Altes Nederlandse kolonisten in Amerika en de Liga der Irokezen recensie en informatie van de inhoud van het geschiedenisboek. Op 4 december 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Walburg Pers het nieuwe boek van advocaat en rechter Willem F. Korthals Altes. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave.

Willem F. Korthals Altes Nederlandse kolonisten in Amerika en de Liga der Irokezen recensie en informatie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking of recensie verschijnt van Nederlandse kolonisten in Amerika en de Liga der Irokezen, het boek van Willem F. Korthals Altes, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Willem F. Korthals Altes Nederlandse kolonisten in Amerika en de Liga der Irokezen

Nederlandse kolonisten in Amerika en de Liga der Irokezen

  • Auteur: Willem F. Korthals Altes (Nederland)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek
  • Uitgever: Walburg Pers
  • Verschijnt: 4 december 2024
  • Omvang: 144 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Prijs: € 20,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekhandel / Bol

Flaptekst van het nieuwe boek van Willem F. Korthals Altes

De Nederlandse kolonisten noemden hen ‘wilden’ of ‘naturellen’, omdat zij naakt liepen en als jager-verzamelaars leefden. Maar zij hadden een samenleving met sterk ontwikkelde intermenselijke, organisatorische en juridische verhoudingen. De Liga der Irokezen of Iroquois of Haudenosaunee Confederacy was een uniek verbond van vijf stammen (naties) van Native Americans in de staat New York, dat van ongeveer 1450 tot de Amerikaanse revolutie heeft bestaan. De Nederlanders hebben vele jaren met Irokezen handelgedreven en samengeleefd. De ‘Five Nations’ hadden kenmerken van het Romeinse Rijk, maar kwamen door de invasie van Europeanen aan de ontwikkeling daarvan niet toe.

Wat zou er zijn gebeurd als de Europeanen het Noord-Amerikaanse continent later hadden ‘ontdekt’, of als de Founding Fathers van de Verenigde Staten elementen van de Iroquois Confederacy hadden overgenomen?

Willem F. Korthals Altes is geboren in 1949. Hij was advocaat, universitair docent en 25 jaar lang rechter. Hij heeft in New York gestudeerd en lesgegeven.

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Verenigde Staten, Amerikaanse schrijfster, Geschiedenisboeken

Jill Lepore – Het beest Amerika

Jill Lepore Het beest Amerika recensie en informatie over het non-fictie boek over de Verenigde Staten van de Amerikaanse historicus. Op 8 oktober 2024 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij De Arbeiderspers de Nederlandse vertaling van The Beast America, de bundel met essays van de Amerikaanse schrijfster en historicus Jill Lepore. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur, de vertalers en over de uitgave.

Jill Lepore Het beest Amerika recensie en informatie

  • “Jill Lepore is niet alleen een van onze belangrijkste denkers, maar ook een van onze beste schrijvers.” (Los Angeles Times)
  • “Meesterlijke anatomie van het Amerika van nu.” (The New York Times)

Jill Lepore Het beest Amerika

Het beest Amerika

  • Auteur: Jill Lepore (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: essays
  • Origineel: The American Beast (2023)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Rob Kuitenbrouwer, Frank Lekens
  • Uitgever: De Arbeiderspers
  • Verschijnt: 8 oktober 2024
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de Verenigde Staten van Jill Lepore

Amerika is in het afgelopen decennium ingrijpend veranderd. In twintig briljante beschouwingen ontrafelt Jill Lepore de tumultueuze troebelingen waaraan Amerika ten prooi is – in de politiek en daarbuiten. Culminatiepunt: het presidentschap van Donald Trump. Maar ook andere ontwikkelingen ontwrichten de Amerikaanse samenleving: de cultuurstrijd, het afbrokkelen van de traditionele media, de macht van (en angst voor) Big Tech, de constitutionele crises rond gender, abortus, wapenbezit, rassenhaat en geweld.

Met een scherp oog en een sensitieve pen laat Lepore zien waarom het Amerikaanse politieke landschap voorgoed is veranderd.

Jill Lepore (27 augustus 1966, West Boylston, Massachusetts) is hoogleraar Amerikaanse geschiedenis aan Harvard University en staff writer van The New Yorker. Ze publiceerde onder meer het bejubelde Deze waarheden. Een geschiedenis van de Verenigde Staten. Ze ontving de Hannah Ahrend Prize for Political Thought. Voor New York in brand werd ze genomineerd voor de Pulitzer Prijs.

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David Greenberg – John Lewis biografie

David Greenberg John Lewis biografie recensie, review en informatie boek over de Amerikaanse burgerrechtenactivist. Op 8 oktober 2024 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het boek over John Lewis, geschreven door David Greenberg. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de biografie, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

David Greenberg John Lewis biografie recensie, review en informatie

  • “John Lewis was my friend, steadfast ally, and personal hero. I loved him and miss him very much. Every page of David Greenberg’s biography brings him back to life with rich details that reveal not only his legendary moral compass, but the pressures and practical realities he maneuvered in both protest and politics.” (President Bill Clinton)
  • “Greenberg captures Lewis’ life, achievements, and times with heartstopping precision….a passionately researched and defining portrait of an American hero.” (Booklist)

David Greenberg John Lewis biografie

John Lewis

A Life

  • Auteur: David Greenberg (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 8 oktober 2024
  • Omvang: 704 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de biografie van John Lewis

A comprehensive, authoritative biography of Civil Rights icon John Lewis, “the conscience of the Congress,” drawing on interviews with Lewis and approximately 275 others who knew him at various stages of his life, as well as never-before-used FBI files and documents.

Born into poverty in rural Alabama, Lewis would become second only to Martin Luther King, Jr. in his contributions to the Civil Rights Movement. He was a Freedom Rider who helped to integrate bus stations in the South, a leader of the Nashville sit-in movement, the youngest speaker at the 1963 March on Washington, and the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which he made into one of the major civil rights organizations. He may be best remembered as the victim of a vicious beating by Alabama state troopers at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where he nearly died.

Greenberg’s biography traces Lewis’s life through the post-Civil Rights years, when he headed the Voter Education Project, which enrolled millions of African American voters across the South. The book reveals the little-known story of his political ascent first locally in Atlanta, and then as a member of Congress. Tapped to be a part of the Democratic leadership in Congress, he earned respect on both sides of the aisle for the sacrifices he had made on behalf of nonviolent integration in the South and came to be known as the “conscience of the Congress.”

Thoroughly researched and dramatically told, Greenberg’s biography captures John Lewis’s influential career through documents from dozens of archives, interviews with hundreds of people who knew Lewis, and long-lost footage of Lewis himself speaking to reporters from his hospital bed following his severe beating on “Bloody Sunday” in Selma. With new details about his personal and professional relationships, John Lewis: A Life is the definitive biography of a man whose heroism during the Civil Rights movement helped to bring America a new birth of freedom.

David Greenberg is a professor of history and of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University and a frequent commentator on historical and political affairs. He is the author or editor of several books on American history and politics including Nixon’s Shadow: The History of an Image and Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency. Formerly acting editor of The New Republic and then a columnist for Slate, Greenberg now writes regularly for Politico, Liberties, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. His work has also been featured in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous academic journals. In support of this book Greenberg won awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Cullman Center of the New York Public Library, and the Leon Levy Center for Biography. He holds a PhD in history from Columbia University and a BA from Yale and lives with his family in Manhattan.

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David S. Brown – A Hell of a Storm

David S. Brown A Hell of a Storm recensie, review en informatie boek over The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War. Op 17 september 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Scribner het boek over het ontstaan van de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog in 1854, geschreven door de Amerikaanse historicus David S. Brown. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het geschiedenisboek is niet verkrijgbaar.

David S. Brown A Hell of a Storm recensie, review en informatie

  • “Engaging . . . intriguing and persuasive . . . Brown’s ultimate conclusions are apt, compelling, and memorably expressed. . . . A lively, incisive examination of the social and political background of a tumultuous era.” (Kirkus)
  • “David S. Brown has crafted a fascinating narrative web, one that expertly interweaves the well-known with the little-remembered. The book abounds in compelling portraits of the great and not-so-great. A Hell of a Storm is a hell of a book, insightfully revealing how America’s best minds could not avert America’s greatest calamity.” (John Matteson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author)

David S. Brown A Hell of a Storm

A Hell of a Storm

The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War

  • Auteur: David S. Brown (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Scribner
  • Verschijnt: 17 september 2024
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek over het begin van de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog

From popular historian and author of the “marvelous” (The New York Times Book Review) The Last American Aristocrat comes the fascinating story of how in 1854, a new law—the Kansas-Nebraska Act—unexpectedly became the greatest miscalculation in American history, dividing North and South, creating the Republican party, and paving the way for the Civil War.

The history of the United States includes a series of sectional compromises—the Constitutional Convention, the Missouri Compromise in 1820, and the Compromise of 1850. While these accords created an imperfect republic, or “a house divided,” as Lincoln put it, the country remained united. But then in 1854, this three-generations system suddenly blew up with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and here, David Brown explores in riveting detail how the Act led to the sudden division of North and South.

The Act declared that planters, if permitted by territorial laws, could bring their enslaved peoples to the land extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains—the core of Jefferson’s old Louisiana Purchase which had been reserved for free labor. Northerners were shocked that free soil might now be turned over to slavery and responded with unprecedented backlash. In the bill’s wake the conservative Whig Party (winners of multiple presidential elections) collapsed, and the radical Republican Party was born—in six years it would take control of the central government, provoking Southern secession.

In A Hell of a Storm, Brown brings history to life in a way that resonates with the events of present. Through chapters on Lincoln, Emerson, Stowe, Thoreau, and Tubman, along with a cast of presidents, poets, abolitionists, and black emigrationists, Brown weaves a political, cultural, and literary history that chronicles the Republican party’s creation and rise, the collapse of antebellum compromises, and the coming of the Civil War, all topics that mirror current discussions about polarization in our nation today. By illuminating the personalities and the platforms, the writings and ideas that upended an older America and made space for its successor, A Hell of a Storm reminds us that American history is always being made, and it can be both dynamic and dangerous, both then and now.

David S. Brown (29 September 1966, Troy, Ohio) teaches history at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. He is the author of seven books, among them four biographies: The First Populist: The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson, The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams, Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography.

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Hannah Durkin – De overlevenden van de Clotilda

Hannah Durkin De overlevenden van de Clotilda recensie en informatie boek met de levensverhalen van de laatste gevangenen van de Amerikaanse slavenhandel. Op 7 mei 2024 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Querido het boek van Hannah Durkin over het einde van de slavernij in de Verenigde Staten. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster, de vertaler en over de uitgave.

Hannah Durkin De overlevenden van de Clotilda recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking of recensie verschijnt van De overlevenden van de Clotilda, geschreven door de Britse historicus Hannah Durkin, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Hannah Durkin De overlevenden van de Clotilda

De overlevenden van de Clotilda

De levensverhalen van de laatste gevangenen van de Amerikaanse slavenhandel

  • Auteur: Hannah Durkin (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek, slavernijgeschiedenis
  • Origineel: Survivors (2024)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Jan Willem Reitsma
  • Uitgever: Querido
  • Verschijnt: 7 mei 2024
  • Omvang: 464 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 32,50
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek over de laatste gevangenen van de Amerikaanse slavenhandel

In juli 1860 komt het laatste slavenschip op Amerikaans grondgebied aan: de Clotilda. Aan boord bevinden zich meer dan honderd gevangengenomen en tot slaaf gemaakte Afrikanen. Het zijn de laatste ooggetuigen van een huiveringwekkende en belangrijke periode in de wereldgeschiedenis.

In De overlevenden van de Clotilda volgt Hannah Durkin hun levens. Ze beschrijft hun ontvoering uit het huidige Nigeria, de angstaanjagende reis over de oceaan en hun verkoop in Alabama. Hun levensverhalen voeren van de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog tot het begin van de burgerrechtenbeweging in Selma. Clotilda-overlevenden vormen de spil van de quiltgemeenschap in de regio en zijn betrokken bij de stichting van de volledig zwarte stad Africatown, een inspiratiebron voor talloze schrijvers en kunstenaars.

De overlevenden van de Clotilda is een onthullend en aangrijpend boek op basis van jarenlang onderzoek, waarin geschiedenis, biografie en engagement samenkomen.

Hannah Durkin (1982) is een Brits historicus, gespecialiseerd in de geschiedenis van de Atlantische slavenhandel en de Verenigde Staten. Ze won vele academische prijzen en geeft les aan verschillende universiteiten.

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Geschiedenisboeken, Memoir

Doris Kearns Goodwin – An Unfinished Love Story

Doris Kearns Goodwin An Unfinished Love Story recensie en informatie boek met A Personal History of the 1960s. Op 16 april 2024 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Simon & Schuster het boek over de jaren 60 van de vorige eeuw van de Amerikaanse historicus en schrijfster Doris Kearns Goodwin. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Doris Kearns Goodwin An Unfinished Love Story recensie

Als er een boekbespreking of recensie verschijnt van An Unfinished Love Story, het persoonlijke geschiedenisboek en memoir over de jaren 60 van de Amerikaanse historicus Doris Kearns Goodwin, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

  • “Just as An Unfinished Love Story is a testament to the Kearns Goodwin marriage, so is it a love story of the United States and its democratic government. The many speeches written by Goodwin, the writings of Kearns Goodwin and both their reflections demonstrate that words do indeed matter.” (The Columbus Dispatch)

Doris Kearns Goodwin An Unfinished Love Story

An Unfinished Love Story

  • Auteur: Doris Kearns Goodwin (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek, memoir
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 16 april 2024
  • Omvang: 480 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $35.00 / $316.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de memoir van Doris Kearns Goodwin

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin embarked upon in the last years of his life.

Dick and Doris Goodwin were married for forty-two years and married to American history even longer. In his twenties, Dick was one of the brilliant young men of John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier. In his thirties he both named and helped design Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and was a speechwriter and close advisor to Robert Kennedy. Doris Kearns was a twenty-four-year-old graduate student when selected as a White House Fellow. She worked directly for Lyndon Johnson and later assisted on his memoir.

Over the years, with humor, anger, frustration, and in the end, a growing understanding, Dick and Doris had argued over the achievements and failings of the leaders they served and observed, debating the progress and unfinished promises of the country they both loved.

The Goodwins’ last great adventure involved finally opening the more than three hundred boxes of letters, diaries, documents, and memorabilia that Dick had saved for more than fifty years. They soon realized they had before them an unparalleled personal time capsule of the 1960s, illuminating public and private moments of a decade when individuals were powered by the conviction they could make a difference; a time, like today, marked by struggles for racial and economic justice, a time when lines were drawn and loyalties tested.

Their expedition gave Dick’s last years renewed purpose and determination. It gave Doris the opportunity to connect and reconnect with participants and witnesses of pivotal moments of the 1960s. And it gave them both an opportunity to make fresh assessments of the central figures of the time—John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, and especially Lyndon Johnson, who greatly impacted both their lives. The voyage of remembrance brought unexpected discoveries, forgiveness, and the renewal of old dreams, reviving the hope that the youth of today will carry forward this unfinished love story with America.

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James L. Swanson – The Deerfield Massacre

James L. Swanson The Deerfield Massacre recensie en informatie boek over een bloedige strijd tussen indianen en kolonisten in Amerika in 1704. Op 27 februari 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Scribner het boek The Deerfield Massacre van de Amerikaanse historicus en schrijver James L. Swanson. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Er is is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het geschiedenisboek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

James L. Swanson The Deerfield Massacre recensie

  • “A meticulous account of the eponymous 18th–century massacre . . . Swanson’s narrative pivots ingeniously from the event itself . . . to trace the massacre’s afterlife … The result is a rewarding close look at the process of history-making.” (Publishers Weekly)
  • “A briskly told history of death, resilience, and recovery in the American past.” (Kirkus Reviews)

James L. Swanson The Deerfield Massacre

The Deerfield Massacre

A Surprise Attack, a Forces March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America

  • Auteur: James L. Swanson (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Scribner
  • Verschijnt: 27 februari 2024
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $30.00 / $14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over een confrontatie tussen Indianen en kolonisten in 1704

In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Moon comes a spellbinding account of a forgotten chapter in American history: the deadly confrontation between Indians and colonists in Massachusetts in 1704 and the tragic saga that unfolded, written by acclaimed historian James Swanson.

Once it was one of the most infamous events in early American history. Today, it has been nearly forgotten.

In an obscure, two-hundred-year-old museum in a little town in western Massachusetts there stands what once was the most revered relic from the history of early New England: the massive, tomahawk-scarred door that came to symbolize the notorious Deerfield Massacre of 1704. This impregnable barricade—known to early Americans as “The Old Indian Door”—constructed from double-thick planks of Massachusetts oak and studded with hand-wrought iron nails to repel the tomahawk blades wielded by several attacking Native tribes, is the sole surviving artifact from one of the most dramatic moments in colonial American history: In the leap year of 1704, on the cold, snowy night of February 29, hundreds of Indians and their French allies swept down on an isolated frontier outpost to slaughter or capture its inhabitants.

The sacking of Deerfield led to one of the greatest sagas of survival, sacrifice, family, and faith ever told in North America. One hundred and twelve survivors, including their fearless minister, the Reverend John Williams, were captured and forced to march three hundred miles north into enemy territory in Canada. Any captive who faltered or became too weak to continue the journey—including Williams’s own wife—fell under the tomahawk or war club.

Survivors of the march willed themselves to live and endured captivity. Ransomed by the royal governor of Massachusetts, the captives later returned home to Deerfield, rebuilt their town and, for the rest of their lives, told the incredible tale. The memoir of Rev. Williams, The Redeemed Captive, published soon after his liberation, became one of the first bestselling books in American history and remains a literary classic. The Old Indian Door is a touchstone that conjures up one of the most dramatic and inspiring stories of colonial America—and now, at last, this legendary event is brought to vivid life by popular historian James Swanson.

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