Pete Daniel

Author of Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s

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About the Author

A former curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History and an award-winning historian of the American South, Pete Daniel was the first full-time public historian to serve as president of the Organization of American Historians. He co-curated Rock 'n' Soul: Social Crossroads and show more Official Images: New Deal Photography, among several other major exhibitions. His books include Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s and Dispossession: Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights. show less

Works by Pete Daniel

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Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s (2000) 86 copies

Deep'n as it come : the 1927 Mississippi River flood (1977) 40 copies

Standing at the Crossroads : Southern Life in the Twentieth Century (1986) 35 copies

A Talent for Detail: The Photographs of Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1889-1910 (1974) 32 copies

Dispossession: Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights (2013) 27 copies

Carry Me Home (1990) — Contributor — 23 copies

Official Images: New Deal Photography (1987) 15 copies

Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post-World War II South (2005) 13 copies

Curating the American Past: A Memoir of a Quarter Century at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History (2022) 13 copies

Official images : New Deal photography 7 copies

Backyard Hobby Metal Casting: A Complete Starter Guide to Building a Cheap Foundry and Starting to Melt and Cast Metals 1 copy

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