books by Willard B. Gatewood

books by Willard B. Gatewood

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Willard B. Gatewood

American Experience: A Concise History (America Interpreted)

Randall Bennett Woods, Woods, ...

Harcourt, 2000

"Concise" is Good!
This book's author refers to it as "concise." This is appropriate language. It is a wonderful introduction to American History, and is worth reading even if you're not a history newbie. The book address a good deal of the issues appropriately and in a concise, ...

Aristocrats of Color: Black Elite, 1880-1920

Willard B. Gatewood

Indiana University Press, 1990

Excellent, objective read.
This book is written from the vantage point of an objective, 3rd party eye. Very clinical, and hard facts. This book is MUCH better than the more recent popular book on the black elite. The author lays it on the line in a professional, objective manner.

From Slavery to Wealth: The Life of Scott Bond
Dan A. Rudd and Theo. Bond

University of Arkansas Press, 2008

In an era in which African Americans were oppressed and deprived of many of the rights and privileges of citizenship, Scott Bond rose from being born a slave in Madison County Mississippi in the early 1850s to wealth and status as a farmer, merchant, and business man in Madison, Arkansas by the early 1900s. From Slavery to Wealth is the ...

Arkansas **ISBN: 9781557287243**
Jeannie M. (EDT)/ Deblack, Thomas A. (EDT)/ Sabo, George (EDT)/ Arnold, Morris S. (EDT)/ Gatewood, Willard B. (FRW) Whayne

Univ of Arkansas Pr, 2002

The New Man: Twenty-Nine Years a Slave, Twenty-Nine Years a Free Man. Recollections of H. C. Bruce (Blacks in ...

H. C. Bruce

Bison Books, 1996

Unique and Interesting Perspective
This book was very interesting. Offered new insight into the life of a slave and in a region not known for large slave population, Missouri. Quick read, too.

The American Experience: A Concise History, Volume I (with American Journey Online and InfoTrac®)
Randall Bennett Woods, Willard B. Gatewood

Wadsworth Publishing, 2002

Concise, readable narrative text aimed at the mid-level introductory American history student. This book is ideal for instructors concerned both about cost and brevity. Particular attention is paid to the formation, interaction, and disintegration of national, regional, ethnic, and economic communities.