Willie Lee Rose | The New York Review of Books

Reforming Women

October 7, 1982 issue

Democratic Vistas

The Victim as Criminal and Artist: Literature from the American Prison

by H. Bruce Franklin

August 17, 1978 issue

A History of Endurance

Black Odyssey: The Afro-American Ordeal in Slavery

by Nathan Irvin Huggins

January 26, 1978 issue

The Emergence of American Women

The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835

by Nancy F. Cott

The Feminization of American Culture

by Ann Douglas

Perish the Thought: Intellectual Women in Romantic America, 1830-1860

by Susan Phinney Conrad

Dimity Convictions: The American Woman in the Nineteenth Century

by Barbara Welter

Women and Equality: Changing Patterns in American Culture

by William H. Chafe

The Sex Radicals: Free Love in High Victorian America

by Hal D. Sears

We Were There: The Story of Working Women in America

by Barbara Mayer Wertheimer

Seven Women: Portraits from the American Radical Tradition

by Judith Nies

The Female Experience: An American Documentary

by Gerda Lerner

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September 15, 1977 issue

American Women in Their Place

The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835

by Nancy F. Cott

The Feminization of American Culture

by Ann Douglas

July 14, 1977 issue

An American Family

Roots

by Alex Haley

November 11, 1976 issue

Off the Plantation

Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South

by Ira Berlin

They Who Would Be Free: Blacks' Search for Freedom, 1830-1861

by Jane H. Pease and William H. Pease

The Emancipation of Angelina Grimké

by Katherine DuPre Lumpkin

September 18, 1975 issue

What We Didn’t Know About Slavery

Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States

by Carl Degler

Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713

by Richard S. Dunn

White, Red, and Black: The Seventeenth-Century Virginians

by Wesley Frank Craven

Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion

by Peter H. Wood

Flight and Rebellion: Slave Resistance in Eighteenth-Century Virginia

by Gerald W. Mullin

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October 17, 1974 issue

Shoot-Out

April 22, 1971 issue

An Exchange on John Brown

February 11, 1971 issue

Letter

Stephen B. Oates

Shoot-Out

April 22, 1971 issue

Killing for Freedom

To Purge This Land With Blood: A Biography of John Brown

by Stephen B. Oates

John Brown: The Making of a Revolutionary

Edited and Introduced by Louis Ruchames

The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

Edited and Abridged by Genevieve S. Gray

Frederick Douglass

by Philip S. Foner

Frederick Douglass

by Benjamin Quarles, Preface by James McPherson

My Bondage and My Freedom

by Frederick Douglass, Introduction by Philip Foner

Black Abolitionists

by Benjamin Quarles

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December 3, 1970 issue