Karen Ferguson

When Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, Atlanta had the South's largest population of college-educated African Americans. The dictates of Jim Crow meant that these men and women were almost entirely excluded from public life, but as Karen Ferguson demonstrates, Roosevelt's New Deal opened unprecedented opportunities for black Atlantans struggling to achieve full citizenship. Black reformers, often working within federal agencies as...

"Three Regency misses are going to have a holiday they'll never forget. Once again, adventurous Lady Priscilla and Lord Neville are drawn into a mysterious murder. Only this one must be solved by Twelfth Night--or else! Sophy Templeton's sprained ankle has endangered her chance to return to her missionary work in America. But now a First Foot challenge has been issued for her hand in marriage! Miss Emma Partrick has been betrothed three times,...