African-American History – Bücher, CDs, DVDs und mehr, Seite 4

Nicholas Buccola
One Man's Freedom

From the acclaimed author of The Fire Is upon Us, the dramatic untold story of Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King Jr.'s decade-long clash over the meaning of freedom---and how their conflicting vision…

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Edna Bonhomme
A History of the World in Six Plagues

"Epidemic diseases enter the world by chance, but they become catastrophic by human design. With clear-eyed research and lush prose, A History of the World in Six Plagues shows that throughout histor…

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Jonathan M Jackson
Visions for an African Valley

What was the effect of the numerous, albeit often unsatisfied, plans for development on the land and communities of the Kilombero valley throughout the colonial period and after independence?This book tra…

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Lisa E Davis
Our Minds Were Always Free

An exploration of how African American innovators and artists---whose impact and financial value in American music, movies, and TV is disproportionately greater than their numbers---have fought for and of…

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Amrita Chakrabarti Myers
The Vice President's Black Wife

Award-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796-1833), the enslaved mixed-race wife of Richard Mentor Johnson, ow…

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Race and Resistance in Boston

Race and Resistance in Boston reconstructs the history of Black sport in Boston, from amateur to professional, reimagining the crucial role it played in shaping the city's racial identity.

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Jeffrey A Fortin
Captain Paul Cuffe, Yeoman

Drawing on pamphlets, letters, and other documents, and painstakingly reconstructing his genealogy, Jeffrey A. Fortin vividly describes Paul Cuffe's experiences and places them within the broader history …

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Jeffrey A Fortin
Captain Paul Cuffe, Yeoman

Drawing on pamphlets, letters, and other documents, and painstakingly reconstructing his genealogy, Jeffrey A. Fortin vividly describes Paul Cuffe's experiences and places them within the broader history …

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Deborah Willis
The Black Civil War Soldier

A stunning collection of stoic portraits and intimate ephemera from the lives of Black Civil War soldiersThough both the Union and Confederate armies excluded African American men from their initial calls…

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Bitter Kalli
Mounted

Joining the growing Black creative movement currently refashioning horses and cowboy imagery, a thoughtful, probing exploration of the shared history of Blackness and horses which reveals what its image c…

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Craig Thompson Friend
Becoming Lunsford Lane

Discover a biography for our times: a man searching to define life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in a changing American society marred by loss of political rights, and racial violence.

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Carol R Gardner
The Divided North

Reuben Ruby and Nathaniel Gordon II were born eleven months apart in 1798 and 1799 and spent much of their boyhoods roaming the noisy, bustling waterfront of Portland, Maine. They lived just blocks from o…

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David Greenberg
John Lewis

New York Times Book ReviewTop 100 Books of 2024Explore the "comprehensive and compelling" (Jon Meacham) biography of civil rights leader John Lewis, celebrated as "the conscience of Congres…

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Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
Misbehaving at the Crossroads

"The New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and The Age of Phillis makes her nonfiction debut with this personal and thought-provoking wo…

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Sarah Gold McBride
Whiskerology

Whiskerology traces how hair became a significant marker of identity and belonging in nineteenth-century America. Viewed during the colonial period as disposable, to be donned or removed like clothing, ha…

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Carol R Gardner
The Divided North

Reuben Ruby and Nathaniel Gordon II were born eleven months apart in 1798 and 1799 and spent much of their boyhoods roaming the noisy, bustling waterfront of Portland, Maine. They lived just blocks from o…

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Alyssa Lopez
Reel Freedom

Forthcoming Spring 2025

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John Conyers III
My Father's House

"My Father's House is both a biography of iconic African-American Congressman John Conyers Jr. and his more than half-century of groundbreaking legislation, and a son's memoir of leveraging his own v…

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Karida L Brown
The Battle for the Black Mind

"The Battle for the Black Mind delves into the complex history of Black education in the United States from the end of the Civil War in 1865 until the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Cou…

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John Conyers III
My Father's House

In this moving work, part clear-eyed assessment, part memoir, the son of iconic African American Congressman John Conyers Jr. shines a spotlight on his father and his political legacy, and reveals how, as…

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