The Kidnapping Club by Jonathan Daniel Wells is an eye-opening history of antebellum New York’s dirtiest secrets.
The Kidnapping Club by Jonathan Daniel Wells is an eye-opening history of antebellum New York's dirtiest secrets.
The Kidnapping Club by Jonathan Daniel Wells is an eye-opening history of antebellum New York’s dirtiest secrets.
The Dead Are Arising illustrates the forces that shaped Malcolm X and captures the voice of a revolutionary whose words resonate powerfully in our own times.
One of our most prominent contemporary historians, Jon Meacham, offers an appreciative assessment of John Lewis’ legacy in His Truth Is Marching On.
This absorbing look at a pivotal point in civil rights activity before the 1950s and ’60s is well done and should be of interest to us all.
Morgan Jerkins recounts her journey to uncover the meaning of stories from millions of African Americans who moved north during the Great Migration.
We all know Rosa Parks as the woman who resisted yielding her seat to a white man on the bus, but there’s so much more to this titan of American history.
If you’re looking to educate yourself on this complicated subject, look no further than The Affirmative Action Puzzle.
Like most civil rights, vehicular freedom was a cultural battle that took several extra decades to be actualized for African Americans.
How do black athletes represent a country that hates them, during the 1936 Berlin Olympics? Olympic Pride, American Prejudice tackles this complicated question.
Overground Railroad is an eye-opening, deeply moving social history of American segregation and black migration during the middle years of the 20th century.
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