Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Despite their own legacy of torment in Egypt, Jews in the U.S. varied in their attitudes toward the slave system, even after it provoked secession and rebellion in their new promised land. This discomfiting anomaly has been probed by scholars...
Folks from Dixie (1898) is a landmark collection of short stories by Paul Laurence Dunbar that vividly portrays the lives, struggles, and humanity of African Americans in the post-Civil War South. Blending realism with compassion, Dunbar captures the transition from...
Fire!! A Quarterly Devoted to the Younger Negro Artists (Volume 1, Number 1) was a groundbreaking literary magazine created by Wallace Thurman and other members of the Harlem Renaissance. First published in 1926, this single-issue publication gave voice to a...
Fetichism in West Africa: Forty Years' Observation of Native Customs and Superstitions by Robert Hamill Nassau is a seminal ethnographic work documenting the spiritual beliefs, rituals, and cultural practices of West African societies in the late 19th and early 20th...
Features of Yoruba Oral Poetry is primarily an analytic study of the feature class of Yorubá oral poetry. The author describes the literary and stylistic or linguistic devices which are shared by all Yoruba oral poetic forms before isolating which...
Exploration of Aïr: Out of the World North of Nigeria" by Angus Buchanan is a narrative travelogue written in the early 20th century. It details the author's adventurous journey through the less-explored mountainous region of Aïr, located in the Sahara,...