Archive for Richard M. Gamble
The Letters of Centinel: Attacks on the U.S. Constitution, 1787-1788 by Samuel Bryan edited and introduced by Warren Hope
Fifth Season Press • 1998 • 160 pages • $19.99 paperback Understanding the Antifederalist complaint against the Constitution requires a sympathetic ear and an active historical imagination. It is not easy for a generation taught to revere the Constitution as holy writ to recognize what the Antifederalists feared in the form and powers of the [...]
1Jan2000 | Richard M. Gamble | 24 comments | ContinuedEnterprising Southerners: Black Economic Success in North Carolina, 1865-1915 by Robert C. Kenzer
University Press of Virginia • 1997 • xvi + 178 pages • $30.00 Richard Gamble is a professor of history at Palm Beach Atlantic College. In this meticulous and tightly argued volume, historian Robert Kenzer corrects what he describes as the prevailing “monolithic” view of the economic condition of North Carolina blacks in the 50 [...]
1Feb1999 | Richard M. Gamble | 0 comments | Continued-
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