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Thomas Aiello
The 1918 lynching of Mary Turner by a white mob in Brooks County, Georgia, is remembered and studied mainly because of the horror of an allegedly pregnant woman's murder. In…
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Filling a significant gap in scholarly literature concerning race and hockey within US history, White Ice is a response to two simple questions: How did a cold-climate sport like hockey…
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After the constitutional end to slavery in the US, southern white landowners replaced labor by enslaved people with systems of bound labor. In this book, Thomas Aiello examines the Deep…
From its 19th-century roots to its position today as a global symbol of American culture, basketball has been a force in American society. This book presents the first cultural history…
Solemnity is, in its way, a love story. It is a vehicle for its narrator to understand the collapse of his relationship and his sanity, an attempt to answer the…
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In the 1930s, Monroe, Louisiana, was a town of twenty-six thousand in the northeastern corner of the state, an area described by the New Orleans Item as the ‘lynch law…
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Presents a collection of essays that examines instances of definitional difference, of contested meaning. The essays move chronologically, but they are by no means comprehensive. The evolution of American history…
Offers the first critical history of the influential Southern Newspaper Syndicate, from its roots in the 1930s through its end in the 1950s. At its heyday, more than 240 papers…
Tracing New Orleans sports history from the early nineteenth century to the present, while also surveying the state of the city’s sports historiography, New Orleans Sports places sport in the…
The Tyranny of Architecture is a full philosophical defense of veganism, one that defends the practice in a way fundamentally unique among such arguments. It makes the case that in…
In 1963, at the height of the southern civil rights movement, Cecil Brathwaite, under the pseudonym Cecil Elombe Brath, published a satire of Black leaders entitled Color Us Cullud! The…
Louisiana’s non-unanimous jury-verdict law permitted juries to convict criminal defendants with only nine, and later ten, out of twelve votes. This updated edition of Jim Crow’s Last Stand unpacks the…
Traces the development and trajectory of the individual newspapers of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate, evaluating those with surviving issues, and presenting them as they existed in proximity to their Atlanta…
Weaves a compelling true crime narrative into an exploration of the economics of magazine fiction and the strains placed on authors by the publishing industry prior to World War II…
This handbook offers a comprehensive historical overview and analysis of police brutality in US history and the variety of ways it has manifested itself.
In the 20 years between 1895 and 1915, two key leaders-Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois-shaped the struggle for African American rights. This book examines the impact of their…
From its nineteenth-century roots to its position today as a global symbol of American culture, basketball has been a force in American society. This book presents the first cultural history…
Thomas Aiello traces the complicated and fascinating life of pioneering journalist, television host, bestselling author, and important yet overlooked civil rights figure Louis Lomax, who became one of the most…
The annual clash in New Orleans between the Grambling State University Tigers and the Southern University Jaguars represents the fiercest and most anticipated in-state football rivalry in Louisiana. Thomas Aiello…
At a time when Louisiana’s penal system has fallen under national scrutiny, Jim Crow’s Last Stand presents a timely, penetrating, and concise look at the history of the nonunanimous jury-verdict…
In this book Thomas Aiello considers the special cultural function of professional basketball in the Deep South over the half century between 1947 and 1979. Next to their counterparts in…
Offers a history of and definition for jive, followed by examples of folktales, poetry, and Shakespeare ‘translated’ into jive. This work includes a jive glossary for easy reference as well…
Model Airplanes are Decadent and Depraved tells the story of the American glue-sniffing epidemic of the 1960s, from the first reports of use to the unsuccessful crusade for federal legislation…
Dr. Thomas Aiello, Ph.D.
Ruth Messier had been sitting in a special care hospital strapped to a chair for twenty-five years. She couldn t see or hear. She couldn t smell or taste or…
Thomas Aiello, PH.D.
HOW TO DEAL WITH CANCER, LOVE, LOSS, ADDICTION, AND DEATH IN THE SOUTH, WITHOUT GOING COMPLETELY BAT-SHIT CRAZY. The more clairvoyant amongst the citizens might have seen the plague coming…
Dr Thomas Aiello, Ph.D.
