Richard Edwards, Jacob K Friefeld

Gebundenes Buch

The First Migrants

How Black Homesteaders' Quest for Land and Freedom Heralded America's Great Migration

Beschreibung

The First Migrants explores the narrative histories of Black homesteaders in the Great Plains and the larger themes that characterize their shared experiences.

Autor

Richard Edwards is director emeritus of the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History (Nebraska, 2017) and Natives of a Dry Place: Stories of Dakota before the Oil Boom. Jacob K. Friefeld is a historian at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois. He is coauthor of Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History (Nebraska, 2017). Angela Bates is the executive director of the Nicodemus Historical Society and a descendant of the original homesteaders of Nicodemus, Kansas. She has served on the Kansas Historical Foundation board of directors and is a member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bison Books
• Seitenzahl: 508
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 161mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1006g
• ISBN-13: 9781496230843
• ISBN-10: 1496230841
• Artikelnr.: 65947969