Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparations Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer, abducted her, and sold her back into bondage. She remained enslaved throughout the Civil War, giving birth to a son in Mississippi and never forgetting who had put her in this position...

Caleb walked away, but fate brought him back.Years ago, Caleb Burnett walked away from Taylor Montgomery, leaving her heartbroken and unaware she was carrying his child, with nothing more than a curt goodbye and no explanation. Now a successful marketing professional and devoted mother, Taylor has built a life for herself and her young son, Liam—without Caleb. But when a chance encounter at a convention brings Caleb back into her life, old feelings resurface, along...

In The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery, W. Caleb McDaniel sets forth a new interpretation of the Garrisonian abolitionists, stressing their deep ties to reformers and liberal thinkers in Great Britain and Europe. The group of American reformers known as "Garrisonians" included, at various times, some of the most significant and familiar figures in the history of the antebellum struggle over slavery: Wendell Phillips, Frederick Douglass, and William Lloyd Garrison himself. Betwee...

The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice—and reparationsBorn into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer, abducted her, and sold her back into bondage. She remained enslaved throughout the Civil War, giving birth to a son in Mississippi and never forgetting who had put her in this position. By 1869, Wood had obtained her fr...

During the first quarter of the twenty-first century, more than one hundred institutions of higher education in the United States launched projects to study and share their histories concerning slavery, segregation, and racial injustice. Slavery, Segregation, and the Second Founding of Rice University joins these wider efforts. Authored by award-winning historians Alexander X. Byrd and W. Caleb McDaniel, the book engages questions specific to Rice’s history as the last major priva...

Winner of the Shelley Fisher Fishkin Award for International Scholarship in Transnational American StudiesBridget Bennett’s Antislavery in the Dissenting Atlantic explores the impact of a historically situated set of transatlantic networks, chiefly centered on prominent communities of religious nonconformists in England and Pennsylvania in the decades between the American Revolution and American Civil War. The study reveals the alliances forged out of prog...

Folks forget, vampires have criminals, too, and they hate seeing them on CNN. So when a rogue goes postal, they call Marshal Caleb Ride to clean up the mess—by any means necessary.And his latest case is a poser. Persons unknown have exsanguinated a Houston rodeo clown, drained him dry, and Caleb has to investigate. Turns out the clown was an ex-military sniper with his sights set on Joshua Starfinger: country music superstar, rodeo headliner, and closet vamp. And though the assassi...