History
The Boy from Tiger Bay: A True Story of Murder, Betrayal, and a Fight for Justice (Paperback)
A brutal murder. A blighted investigation. The true story of five men damned by a crime they didn’t commit. On Valentine’s Day 1988, twenty-year-old Lynette White was brutally murdered in a dark corner of Cardiff’s world-famous, and infamous, Tiger Bay....
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The Boston Way: Radicals Against Slavery and the Civil War (Hardcover)
How do good people find the courage to resist and end the greatest evil in their country? An untold story of the Civil War Era: pacifists in Boston who led the fight to end slavery without violence and war.Has there...
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Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840–1920 (Hardcover)
From “one of our most prodigious constitutional scholars” (Jonathan Eig), the definitive history of how the ideal of birth equality reshaped the American Constitution, from antebellum debates over slavery and secession, to the Civil War and emancipation, to women’s suffrageIn 1840, millions...
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Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore (Hardcover)
Longtime NBC News reporter Char Adams writes a deeply compelling and rigorously reported history of Black political movements told through the lens of Black-owned bookstores, which have been centers for organizing from abolition to the Civil Rights Movement to Black...
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Black Women Freedom Fighters: Profiles in the Struggle Against Slavery (Paperback)
During the antebellum period, African American women were at the center of the nation's battle between slavery and liberty as the country moved closer to civil war. Their resistance added momentum to the abolition movement and led to a more...
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Black Soldiers, White Laws: The Tragedy of the 24th Infantry in 1917 Houston (Hardcover)
The first full and definitive narrative of one of the most shocking and largely unknown events of racial injustice in US history: the execution of nineteen Black soldiers in Texas On the sweltering, rainy night of August 23, 1917, one...
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Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake (Hardcover)
How white psychiatrists pathologized African American religionsIn the decades after the end of slavery, African Americans were committed to southern state mental hospitals at higher rates as white psychiatrists listed “religious excitement” among the most frequent causes of insanity for...
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Black Movement: African American Urban History since the Great Migration (Paperback)
The Great Migration of African Americans from the South to northern and western cities between 1915 and 1970 fundamentally altered the political, social, and cultural landscapes of major urban centers like New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Detroit, and changed the...
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Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State (Hardcover)
Longlisted for the National Book Award for NonfictionA New York Times Editors' Choice Pick“Powerful… [and] fascinating.” —The Washington PostThe remarkable story of Edward McCabe, a Black man who tried to establish a Black state within the United States.In this paradigm-shattering work of American...
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Black History Is for Everyone (Hardcover)
A longtime educator explores how the study of Black history challenges our understanding of race, nation, and the stories we tell about who we are.Black history is under attack from powerful forces that seek to excise it from classrooms, libraries,...
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The Black Family Who Built America: The McKissacks, Two Centuries of Daring Pioneers (Hardcover)
The riveting story of the McKissack family—the founders of the leading Black design and construction firm in the United States, from its beginnings in the mid-1800s to its thriving status today—in a moving celebration of resilience and innovation.Captured in his...
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Black Cargoes: A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1518–1865 (Paperback)
“A carefully understated but chilling account of the whole 3 ½ centuries during which 15 million Africans were snatched from their homes and delivered into slavery in the New World.” —TimeIn 1518, the Atlantic slave trade began with the landing...
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Black Artists in Their Own Words (Documents of Twentieth-Century Art) Paperback
The first book to center Black artists' voices on Black aesthetics, revealing a century of evolving relationships to race, identity, and art. What is Black art? No one has thought harder about that question than Black artists, yet their perspectives have...
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Black and Catholic: Racism, Identity, and Religion (Hardcover)
Black and Catholic documents the exclusion, erasure, and systematic racism faced by Black Catholics, filling an essential gap in both Catholic and Black history. In the storied history of the U.S. Catholic community, there is a long-standing myth held by Catholics...
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The Battle for the Black Mind (Hardcover)
A gripping chronicle of the relentless fight for Black educational freedom—and the bold strategies to protect, nourish, and empower Black minds.The Battle for the Black Mind is an explosive historical account of the struggle for educational justice in America. Drawing on over a decade...
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Ballroom: A History, A Movement, A Celebration (Hardcover)
A gorgeous, authoritative, and image-filled celebration of pageantry and community created by ballroom culture for Black and Brown LGBTQIA+ people.The subculture of Ballroom emerged in Harlem in the ‘60s out of a need for safe and inclusive spaces for Black...
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Augustine the African (Hardcover)
ugustine of Hippo (354–430), also known as Saint Augustine, was one of the most influential theologians in history. His writings, including the autobiographical Confessions and The City of God, helped shape the foundations of Christianity and Western philosophy. But for many centuries, Augustine’s...
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American Soul: The Black History of Food in the United States - Including 40 Recipes (Hardcover)
Delve into foodways of the United States, including testimonies from more than 30 Black chefs, restaurateurs, historians and luminaries, as well as 40 historically rooted recipes. Equal parts historical exploration and cookbook, this rich narrative reveals the rich and indelible...
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American Scare: Florida's Hidden Cold War on Black and Queer Lives (Hardcover)
A vital exposé for both our history and our present day, American Scare tells the riveting story of how the Florida government destroyed the lives of Black and queer citizens in the twentieth century.In January 1959, Art Copleston was escorted out of...
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African Ancient Origins: Stories of People & Civilization (Hardcover)
Beautiful edition taking the reader through the origins and history of African nations and peoples, highlighting the roots of modern fiction in history, myth and fable.Africa is a crucible of many civilizations, indeed of humanity. African peoples can be traced...
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