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Books by Thomas Aiello
  | | Jim Crow's Last Stand(Updated) Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana by Thomas Aiello Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2019 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-7237-7, ISBN: 0-8071-7237-5 "A remnant of the racist post-Reconstruction Redeemer sociopolitical agenda, Louisiana’s nonunanimous jury-verdict law permitted juries to convict criminal defendants with only nine, and later ten, out of twelve votes: a legal oddity. On the surface, it was meant to speed convictions. In practice, the law funneled many convicts―especially African Americans―into Louisiana’s burgeoning convict lease system. Although it faced multiple legal ..." |
 | | The Battle for the Souls of Black Folk W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and the Debate That Shaped the Course of Civil Rights by Thomas Aiello Hardcover, 576 Pages, Published 2016 by Praeger ISBN-13: 978-1-4408-4357-0, ISBN: 1-4408-4357-0 "In the 20 years between 1895 and 1915, two key leaders―Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois―shaped the struggle for African American rights. This book examines the impact of their fierce debate on America's response to Jim Crow and positions on civil rights throughout the 20th century―and evaluates the legacies of these two individuals even today.The debate between W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington on how to further social and ..." |
 | | Paul Morphy(Updated) Pride and Sorrow of Chess by David Lawson, Thomas Aiello Paperback, 430 Pages, Published 2010 by Univ Of Louisiana At Lafayette ISBN-13: 978-1-887366-97-7, ISBN: 1-887366-97-0 ""Paul Morphy: The Pride and Sorrow of Chess" is the only full-length biography of Paul Morphy, the antebellum chess prodigy who launched United States participation in international chess and is still generally acknowledged as the greatest American chess player of all time. But Morphy was more than a player. He was a shy, retiring lawyer who had been taught that such games were no way to make a living. The strain of his fame and the pul ..." |
 | | Hoops A Cultural History of Basketball in America (American Ways) by Thomas Aiello Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2022 by Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Md ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-4711-5, ISBN: 1-5381-4711-4 |
 | | Dixieball(1st Edition) Race and Professional Basketball in the Deep South, 1947–1979 (Sports & Popular Culture) by Thomas Aiello Hardcover, 182 Pages, Published 2019 by Univ Tennessee Press ISBN-13: 978-1-62190-463-2, ISBN: 1-62190-463-6 ""In this book Thomas Aiello considers the special cultural function of professional basketball in the Deep South for more than a quarter century between 1947 and 1979." |
 | | The Grapevine of the Black South The Scott Newspaper Syndicate in the Generation before the Civil Rights Movement (Print Culture in the South Ser.) by Thomas Aiello, Sarah Gardner, Jonathan Wells Paperback, 310 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-5445-3, ISBN: 0-8203-5445-7 "In the summer of 1928, William Alexander Scott began a small four-page weekly with the help of his brother Cornelius. In 1930 his Atlanta World became a semiweekly, and the following year W. A. began to implement his vision for a massive newspaper chain based out of Atlanta: the Southern Newspaper Syndicate, later dubbed the Scott Newspaper Syndicate. In April 1931 the World had become a triweekly, and its reach began drifting beyond th ..." |
 | | The Tyranny of Architecture A Vegan Apologetic by Thomas Aiello Paperback, 126 Pages, Published 2017 by Lulu.Com ISBN-13: 978-1-365-79901-3, ISBN: 1-365-79901-8 "The Tyranny of Architecture is a full philosophical defense of veganism, one that defends the practice in a way fundamentally unique among such arguments. It makes the case that in a human society built on artificial constructs, the only demonstrable ethics not part of an imagined community is that of respecting the right to life and contentment, construed for farmed animals as adequate food, space, and other basic amenities, along with ..." |
 | | Dan Burley's Jive(1st Edition) by Thomas Aiello, Dan Burley Paperback, 220 Pages, Published 2009 by Northern Illinois University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87580-623-5, ISBN: 0-87580-623-6 "These two rare books are now available in one volume, including all original illustrations. This retro volume combines two brilliant and long out-of-print books, Dan Burley's "Original Handbook of Harlen Jive" (1944) and "Diggeth Thou?" (1959) by Dan Burley. Burley was a journalist and sportswriter who worked for various African American newspapers and magazines, including the "Chicago Defender", "Chicago Crusader", "New York New Amster ..." |
 | | White Ice Race and the Making of Atlanta Hockey (Sports & Popular Culture) [Hardcover ] by Thomas Aiello Hardcover, 193 Pages, Published 2024 by The University Of Tennessee Press 2024-01-31, Knoxville ISBN-13: 978-1-62190-835-7, ISBN: 1-62190-835-6 "... Hohlstein , William , 139n Holan , Milos , 117–18 Holiday on Ice , 8 , 14 Holmes , Oliver Wendell , 24 Hope , Bob , 104 Houston Apollos , 12 , 16 Houston Huskies , 9 Houston Oilers , 105 Houston Skippers , 9 Howe , Gordie , 27 , 73 ..." |
 | | Model Airplanes are Decadent and Depraved(1st Edition) The Glue-Sniffing Epidemic of the 1960s by Thomas Aiello Paperback, 260 Pages, Published 2015 by Northern Illinois University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87580-724-9, ISBN: 0-87580-724-0 ""Model Airplanes are Decadent and Depraved "tells the story of the American glue-sniffing epidemic of the 1960s, from the first reports of use to the unsuccessful crusade for federal legislation in the early 1970s. The human obsession with inhalation for intoxication has deep roots, from the oracle at Delphi to Judaic biblical ritual. The discovery of nitrous oxide, ether, and chloroform in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and the ..." |
 | | Saint Norman by Dr Thomas Aiello Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2002 by Iuniverse ISBN-13: 978-0-595-25852-9, ISBN: 0-595-25852-2 |
 | | On Carpentry by Dr Thomas Aiello Paperback, 196 Pages, Published 2011 by Lulu.Com ISBN-13: 978-1-257-09067-9, ISBN: 1-257-09067-4 "HOW TO DEAL WITH CANCER, LOVE, LOSS, ADDICTION, AND DEATH IN THE SOUTH, WITHOUT GOING COMPLETELY BAT-SHIT CRAZY. The more clairvoyant amongst the citizens might have seen the plague coming. The town's street design, after all, told the story: had the roads of Carbondale, Arkansas been the constellation lines between stars, reaching with the stretch of their potholes and paint to the homes of those infected, they would have told the stor ..." |
 | | The Kings of Casino Park(2nd Edition) Black Baseball in the Lost Season of 1932 by Thomas Aiello, Robert Powell Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 2011 by University Alabama Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-1742-3, ISBN: 0-8173-1742-2 "In the 1930s, Monroe, Louisiana, was a town of twenty-six thousand in the northeastern corner of the state, an area described by the New Orleans Item as the 'lynch law center of Louisiana.' race relations were bad, and the Depression was pitiless for most, especially for the working class--a great many of whom had no work at all or seasonal work at best. Yet for a few years in the early 1930s, this unlikely spot was home to the Monarchs ..." |
 | | Saint Norman (Hardback) by Dr Thomas Aiello Hardcover, 260 Pages, Published 2002 by Iuniverse Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-595-65381-2, ISBN: 0-595-65381-2 |
 | | New Orleans Sports(1st Edition) Playing Hard in the Big Easy (Sport, Culture, and Society) by Thomas Aiello Paperback, 325 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Arkansas Press ISBN-13: 978-1-68226-100-2, ISBN: 1-68226-100-X "New Orleans has long been a city fixated on its own history and culture. Founded in 1718 by the French, transferred to the Spanish in the 1763 Treaty of Paris, and sold to the United States in 1803, the city’s culture, law, architecture, food, music, and language share the influence of all three countries. This cultural mélange also manifests in the city’s approach to sport, where each game is steeped in the city’s history. Tracing that ..." |
 | | The Devil's Messages by Thomas Aiello Published 2012 by Cognella Academic Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-62131-566-7, ISBN: 1-62131-566-5 |
 | | The Voice of the Negro (1919): The Classic African American Account of Riots and Lynching in America After the First World War by Robert T. Klein by Thomas Aiello, Robert Thomas Kerlin Paperback, 337 Pages, Published 2013 by Edwin Mellen Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-7734-4356-3, ISBN: 0-7734-4356-8 "This is an outstanding reappraisal of activist professor Kerlin's historically relevant and vital, but often overlooked work, The Voice of the Negro. It presents African American journalists' on-the-scene portrayals and analyses of the racial violence and their reports from the frontlines of the bloodshed in the wake of Red Summer. The Voice of the Negro, originally published in 1920, was situated at the intersection of three distinct p ..." |
 | | White Ice Race and the Making of Atlanta Hockey by Thomas Aiello 193 Pages, Published 2024 by Univ. Of Tennessee Press ISBN-13: 978-1-62190-836-4, ISBN: 1-62190-836-4 "... Clayton Trutor, Loserville: How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta—And How At- lanta Remade Professional Sports (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022), 3, 6, 7. 4. Chapman v. King, 154 F.2d 460 (5th Cir. 1946); Tamiko Brown-Nagin ..." |
 | | New Orleans Sports Playing Hard in the Big Easy by Thomas Aiello 325 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Arkansas Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61075-670-9, ISBN: 1-61075-670-3 "Tracing that history from the early nineteenth century to the present, while also surveying the state of the city’s sports historiography, New Orleans Sports places sport in the context of race relations, politics, and civic and business ..." |
 | | Saint Norman by Thomas Aiello 260 Pages, Published by Iuniverse ISBN-13: 978-1-4697-9874-5, ISBN: 1-4697-9874-3 "Ruth Messier had been sitting in a special care hospital strapped to a chair for twenty-five years. She couldn t see or hear. She couldn t smell or taste or feel. She had no arms and no legs. Ruth Messier was a bowling ball." |
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