Typically, the phrase “true crime” brings to mind stories of serial murderers—not of, say, thieves and traffickers of rare eggs.
We live in an era that’s awash in crime case forensic evidence. That was hardly the case a century ago, as Kate Winkler Dawson describes in American Sherlock.
In Conversations in Black, Ed Gordon has assembled a who’s who of black voices in conversation with each other, discussing the world as they see it in 2020.
If you’re looking to educate yourself on this complicated subject, look no further than The Affirmative Action Puzzle.
Math isn’t a subject most people consider humorous. But Matt Parker manages to portray the science of mathematics as fun and hilarious in Humble Pi.
Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman gather dozens of celebrated writers to remember, reflect on, criticize and celebrate a century’s worth of landmark ACLU cases.
This important book shows us that without the “long year” of 1774, there may not have been an American Revolution at all.
A captain and his team of eight officers from the Women’s Royal Naval Service devised a game that arguably changed the course of World War II.
“What happened to us?” This question haunts the Middle East and the Arab world. It’s also the question posed by Kim Ghattas in her illuminating new book.
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.
Alexis Coe moves past the well-worn tropes we’ve come to associate with George Washington and paints a cheeky portrait of a man we may think we already know.
When Time Stopped is filled with heartbreaking, spine-tingling stories about Ariana Neumann’s father and his dramatic past as a Jewish refugee in WWII Berlin.
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