Displaying 1 of 1 2021 Format: Book Author: Gordon-Reed, Annette, author. Title: On Juneteenth / Annette Gordon-Reed. Edition: First edition. Publisher, Date: New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2021] ©2021 Description: 148 pages ; 20 cm Summary: Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed's On Juneteenth provides a historian's view of the nation's long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond. Subjects: Juneteenth. Slaves -- Emancipation -- Texas. African Americans -- Texas -- Galveston -- History. African Americans -- Anniversaries, etc. African Americans -- Social life and customs. Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-148). Contents: "This, then, is Texas" -- A Texas town -- Origin stories : Africans in Texas -- People of the past and the present -- Remember the Alamo -- On Juneteenth. LCCN: 2021007777 ISBN: 9781631498831 1631498835 Other Number: 1196176524 System Availability: 37 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 3473470 Course Reserves: 0 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 35 Place Request Please select and request a specific volume by clicking one of the icons in the 'Where Is It?' section below. Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Where Is It? Flap Cover Text Praise for Annette Gordon-Reed—Edmund S. Morgan—David W. Blight—David Levering Lewis - (WW Norton) Large Cover Image Suggestions and more Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1
