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Jessica Gordon Nembhard

Collective Courage

"Chronicles the achievements and challenges of African American collective economic action and social entrepreneurship in the struggle for civil rights and economic equality"--Provided by publis…

Louis Ferrante

Borgata: Clash of Titans

The explosive second volume of former mobster's Lou Ferrante's BORGATA trilogy in which we learn of the existential threats that nearly destroyed the American Mafia

Zev Eleff

The Greatest of All Time

Americans love to talk about 'greatness.' In this book, Zev Eleff explores the phenomenon of 'greatness' culture and what Americans really mean when they talk about greatness. Greatness discourse provides…

Richard N Langlois

The Corporation and the Twentieth Century

A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial eraThe twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational transformation…

Daniel Rood

In the Shadow of the Great House

We imagine the plantation-the big house, the porticos, the slave quarters, the vast cotton fields-as situated firmly in the dismal American past. Yet as historian Daniel Rood shows in In the Shadow the Gr…

William Grady

Redrawing the Western

A history of American Western genre comics and how they interacted with contemporaneous political and popular culture.

Tamara J. Walker

Beyond the Shores

**New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - An award-winning author charts the poignant global journeys of African Americans as she explores her own transatlantic family odyssey in Beyond the Shores,a …

John Stubbings

The Devil Is in It

The rich history of the acoustic guitar and its impact on the music world.

Eva Payne

Empire of Purity

"Between the 1870s and 1930s, American social reformers, working closely with the United States government, transformed sexual vice into an international political and humanitarian concern. As these …

Andrew Fialka,

Hope Never to See It

"Hope Never to See It illustrates two exceptional incidents of guerrilla violence in Missouri during the American Civil War: (1) a Union spy's two-week-long murder spree targeting civilians, and; (2)…

Arthur Ashe

A Hard Road to Glory, Volume 1 (1619-1918)

With a Foreword by Jeanne Moutoussamy-AsheAvailable once again for a new generation of readers, the first volume in Arthur Ashe's epic trilogy that chronicles the remarkable legacy of Black athletes in th…

Adam Chandler

99% Perspiration

An enlightening and entertaining interrogation of the myth of American self-reliance and the idea of hard work as destiny"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."…

Joe William Trotter Jr

From Enslavement to Covid-19

"During the COVID-19 pandemic, commentators opined that the high concentration of African Americans in dangerous and unsafe work and living environments exposed them to the virus at higher and more d…

The Liberal Heartland

Over the last two decades, the political narrative of the "liberal coasts" and the "conservative heartland" has become something of a truism, leading many Democrats to write off much o…

Walter Hood, Grace Mitchell Tada,

Memorial To Our Ancestors

The first publication to document the International African American Museum's landscape design by Hood Design Studio, illuminating its mission and historic site The African Ancestors Garden is the first b…

Daniel K Williams

The Search for a Rational Faith

The Search for a Rational Faithpresents a 400-year narrative history of Anglo-American Protestant intellectual defenses of the Christian faith from the seventeenth century to the present. It challenges po…

Aaron Sheehan-Dean

Fighting with the Past

"Civil War Americans, like people today, used the past to understand and traverse their turbulent present. As Aaron Sheehan-Dean reveals in this fascinating work of comparative intellectual history, …

Sean Meehan

The Emerald Bench

Twenty-five Irish Americans who have served as Supreme Court justices and shaped the highest court in the land.From the Supreme Court's first session in 1790 to today, Irish Americans have maintained a ne…

Donald Edwards

Evolution Of An Influenced Mind