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All God's Dangers(2nd Edition)
The Life of Nate Shaw
by Theodore Rosengarten
Paperback, 608 Pages, Published 2018 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-0-525-56285-6, ISBN: 0-525-56285-0

"Nate Shaw's father was born under slavery. Nate Shaw was born into a bondage that was only a little gentler. At the age of nine, he was picking cotton for thirty-five cents an hour. At the age of forty-seven, he faced down a crowd of white deputies who had come to confiscate a neighbor's crop. His defiance cost him twelve years in prison. This triumphant autobiography, assembled from the eighty-four-year-old Shaw's oral reminiscences, i ..."






Grass Roots(Illustrated)
African Origins of an American Art
by Dale Rosengarten, Theodore Rosengarten, Enid Schildkrout, Judith Ann Carney, N.Y., Avery Research Center, Mckissick Museum
Paperback, 270 Pages, Published 2008 by Museum For African Art
ISBN-13: 978-0-945802-51-8, ISBN: 0-945802-51-X

"Through the prism of America's most enduring African-inspired art form, the Lowcountry basket, Grass Roots guides readers across 300 years of American and African history. In scholarly essays and beautiful photographs, Grass Roots follows the coiled basket along its transformation on two continents from a simple farm tool once used for processing grain to a work of art and a central symbol of African and African American identity. Featu ..."






A Portion of the People(1st Edition)
Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life
by Theodore Rosengarten, Dale Rosengarten, Mckissick Museum, 1948- Dale Rosengarten, College Of Charleston, Eli N. Evans, Bill Aron
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2002 by University Of South Carolina Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-57003-445-9, ISBN: 1-57003-445-1

"In the year 1800, South Carolina was home to more Jews than any other place in North America. As old as the province of Carolina itself, the Jewish presence has been a vital but little-examined element in the growth of cities and towns, in the economy of slavery and post-slavery society, and in the creation of American Jewish religious identity. The record of a landmark exhibition that will change the way people think about Jewish histo ..."






All God's Dangers
The Life of Nate Shaw
by Theodore Rosengarten, Nate Shaw
Paperback, 600 Pages, Published 2000 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-72774-5, ISBN: 0-226-72774-2

"All God's Dangers won the National Book Award in 1975."There are only a few American autobiographies of surpassing greatness. . . . Now there is another one, Nate Shaw's."--New York Times"On a cold January morning in 1969, a young white graduate student from Massachusetts, stumbling along the dim trail of a long-defunct radical organization of the 1930s, the Alabama Sharecropper Union, heard that there was a survivor and went looking fo ..."






Grass Roots
African Origins of an American Art
by Dale Rosengarten, Theodore Rosengarten, Enid Schildkrout, Jessica B. Harris, Judith A. Carney, Sandra Klopper, J. Lorand Matory, Fath Davis Ruffins, John Michael Vlach, Peter H. Wood
Hardcover, 270 Pages, Published 2008 by Museum For African Art
ISBN-13: 978-0-945802-50-1, ISBN: 0-945802-50-1

"Through the prism of America's most enduring African-inspired art form, the Lowcountry basket, Grass Roots guides readers across 300 years of American and African history. In scholarly essays and beautiful photographs, Grass Roots follows the coiled basket along its transformation on two continents from a simple farm tool once used for processing grain to a work of art and a central symbol of African and African American identity. Featu ..."






All God's Dangers(Reprint)
by Theodore Rosengarten, Nate Shaw, Jeff Stone, Luann Walther
Paperback, 575 Pages, Published 1989 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-0-679-72761-3, ISBN: 0-679-72761-2

"Nate Shaw's father was born under slavery. Nate Shaw was born into a bondage that was only a little gentler. At the age of nine, he was picking cotton for thirty-five cents an hour. At the age of forty-seven, he faced down a crowd of white deputies who had come to confiscate a neighbor's crop. His defiance cost him twelve years in prison. This triumphant autobiography, assembled from the eighty-four-year-old Shaw's oral reminiscences, i ..."






Tombee(1st Edition)
Portrait of a Cotton Planter. With the Plantation Journal of Thomas B. Chaplin (1822-1890)
by Theodore Rosengarten, Susan W. Walker, Thomas Benjamin Chaplin
Hardcover, 750 Pages, Published 1986 by William Morrow
ISBN-13: 978-0-688-05412-0, ISBN: 0-688-05412-9

"Tombee was an unlucky slave owner and cotton planter on St. Helena Island, South Carolina. His real name was Thomas B. Chaplin, and we know him because of his plantation journal, kept between 1845 and 1858. The fascination of this journal is enhanced by notes that Chaplin added periodically after 1865, bringing the lives of his characters up-to-date. Not unnaturally, he compared his poverty after the Civil War with antebellum opulence, ..."






All God's Dangers(1st Edition)
The Life of Nate Shaw
by Theodore Rosengarten, Nate Shaw, T. Y. Rosengarten
Paperback, 575 Pages, Published 1984 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-0-394-72245-0, ISBN: 0-394-72245-0

"All God's Dangers won the National Book Award in 1975."There are only a few American autobiographies of surpassing greatness. . . . Now there is another one, Nate Shaw's."—New York Times"On a cold January morning in 1969, a young white graduate student from Massachusetts, stumbling along the dim trail of a long-defunct radical organization of the 1930s, the Alabama Sharecropper Union, heard that there was a survivor and went looking for ..."






All God's Dangers(1st Edition)
The Life of Nate Shaw
by Theodore Rosengarten, Nate Shaw
Hardcover, 561 Pages, Published 1974 by Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN-13: 978-0-394-49084-7, ISBN: 0-394-49084-3

"All God's Dangers won the National Book Award in 1975."There are only a few American autobiographies of surpassing greatness. . . . Now there is another one, Nate Shaw's."—New York Times"On a cold January morning in 1969, a young white graduate student from Massachusetts, stumbling along the dim trail of a long-defunct radical organization of the 1930s, the Alabama Sharecropper Union, heard that there was a survivor and went looking for ..."






William Elliott's Carolina Sports by Land and Water(94th Edition)
Including Incidents of Devil-Fishing, Wild-Cat, Deer, and Bear Hunting, Etc. (Southern Classics Series)
by William Elliott, Theodore Rosengarten
Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 1994 by University Of South Carolina Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-87249-987-4, ISBN: 0-87249-987-1

"In 1816 Elliott fell in love with fourteen-year-old Ann Hutchinson Smith, daughter of Thomas Rhett Smith and Ann Rebecca Skirving. ..."






Something to Take My Place
the Art of Lonnie Holley
by Mark Sloan, Theodore Rosengarten, Leslie Umberger, Bernard Herman
Published 2015
ISBN-13: 978-1-4951-5866-7, ISBN: 1-4951-5866-7






All God's Dangers
The Life of Nate Shaw (Compact Disc)
by Theodore Rosengarten, Sean Crisden
Published 2014 by Tantor Audio
ISBN-13: 978-1-4945-0420-5, ISBN: 1-4945-0420-0






Art and Landscape in Charleston and the Low Country
by John Beardsley, Len Jenshel, Roberta Kefalos, Theodore Rosengarten
Hardcover, 168 Pages, Published 2006 by Spacemaker Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-888931-17-4, ISBN: 1-888931-17-5

"This book is the legacy of an exhibition entitled "Human/Nature: Art and Landscape in Charleston and the Low Country, " a special project of the twenty-first season of the Spoleto Festival U.S.A. In "Human/Nature, " the diverse works of art were scattered around the city and the surrounding countryside, offering perceptive glimpses into the low-country environment for Spoleto visitors and native Charlestonians alike. With photographs by ..."






Places With A Past
by Mary Jane Jacob, Theodore Rosengarten, Christian Boltanski, Chris Burden, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Antony Gormley, Cindy Sherman, Et. Al
Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 1992 by Rizzoli
ISBN-13: 978-0-8478-1510-4, ISBN: 0-8478-1510-2

"Book by Rizzoli"






Bright Skin
A Novel
by Julia Mood Peterkin, Theodore Rosengarten, Ted Rosengarten, Peterkin/Rosengarten
Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-1954-4, ISBN: 0-8203-1954-6

"Julia Peterkin pioneered in demonstrating the literary potential for serious depictions of the African American experience. Rejecting the prevailing sentimental stereotypes of her times, she portrayed her black characters with sympathy and understanding, endowing them with the full dimensions of human consciousness. In these novels and stories, she tapped the richness of rural southern black culture and oral traditions to capture the co ..."






All God's Dangers
The Life of Nate Shaw.
by Theodore Rosengarten, Nate Shaw
Hardcover, 604 Pages, Published 1975 by Jonathan Cape
ISBN-13: 978-0-224-01182-2, ISBN: 0-224-01182-0

"Nate Shaw's father was born into slavery. Nate was born into a bondage that was only a little gentler. At the age of nine, he was picking cotton and plowing behind a mule. At the age of forty-seven, he faced down a crowd of white deputies who had come to confiscate a neighbor's livestock. His defiance cost him twelve years in prison. This triumphant autobiography, All God's Dangers, assembled from the eighty-four-year-old Shaw's oral ..."






Land of Deepest Shade(1st Edition)
by John Mcwilliams, Theodore Rosengarten, Kelly Morris
Hardcover, 95 Pages, Published 1989 by Aperture Book
ISBN-13: 978-0-89381-392-5, ISBN: 0-89381-392-3

"This book of 71 photographs, reproduced in duotone, was produced to accompany a traveling exhibition organized by the High Museum of Art in 1990 and 1991."






The Granite Farm Letters(1st Edition)
The Civil War Correspondence of Edgeworth and Sallie Bird
by John Rozier, Edgeworth Bird, Sallie Bird, Theodore Rosengarten
Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 1988 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-1042-8, ISBN: 0-8203-1042-5

"The fall of Atlanta is a great disaster, but not irretrievable. I trust every energy will be put forth. Some of the scenes Mr. Stephens foretold are upon us. I am not depressed yet. We leave tomorrow, a day earlier than expected. I never had a sweeter visit. Dear Mrs. Toombs is so good and sweet, and Mrs. Du- Bose is fascinating indeed, so sparkling, that is the word to apply to her. Mrs. DuBose goes with us to Barnett tomorrow. So ..."






ALL GOD'S DANGERS
THE LIFE OF NATE SHAW
by Theodore Rosengarten
Published by Avon Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-380-25619-8, ISBN: 0-380-25619-3






Something to Take My Place
The Art of Lonnie Holley
by Mark Sloan Md, Bernard L. Herman, Lonnie Holley, Lizz Biswell, Theodore Rosengarten, Leslie Umberger
Hardcover, 215 Pages, Published 2016 by Halsey Institute Of Contemporary Art, College Of Charleston
ISBN-13: 978-1-4675-7448-8, ISBN: 1-4675-7448-1

"Lonnie Holley (born 1950), acclaimed by The New York Times as "the Insider's Outsider," is best known for his assemblage sculptures incorporating natural and man-made materials, often cast off or discarded; he has recently also begun to make music, through the Dust-to-Digital label. Legendary for his environmental assemblage that spread over two acres of his property in Birmingham, Alabama--now destroyed--Holley scavenges and repurposes ..."



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