Cultural Literature

The stories Zeola told about herself show aspects of her character that was budding at age four and five, for example learning to clean and care for her home and to beautify it. She expressed her love of husband and children as she labored daily to take...

Buoyed by the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, historians began reevaluating previously held beliefs of American slavery. Under particular scrutiny was the belief in slavery's paternalistic benevolence. Remembering the Days of Sorrow is not...

Remembering Our Black Trail Blazers and Their Legacies ll is a departure from Miss Pierce's many books of fiction. It is non-fictional and the second of her two-part black history series. Each brief biography is another authentic glimpse of one...

Remembering Our Black Trail Blazers and Their Legacies ll is a departure from Miss Pierce's many books of fiction. It is non-fictional and the second of her two-part black history series. Each brief biography is another authentic glimpse of one...

Black Americans have been an integral part of the American scene for hundreds of years. Those that you will read about here are the phoenixes that arose from the depths of slavery, or a segregated society. Against all odds, through perseverance, drive...

Black Americans have been an integral part of the American scene for hundreds of years. Those that you will read about here are the phoenixes that arose from the depths of slavery, or a segregated society.Against all odds, through perseverance, drive and...

As Nat Hentoff says, Hearing Bix for the first time was like waking up to the first day of spring. Bix has always inspired such acclaim, for he was an unmatched master of the cornet. Ralph Berton was privileged enough to have been a fan -- and younger...

One of the best women's suffrage books, Remember the Ladies releases in paperback for the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment with unforgettable stories of the courageous leaders who secured women's right to vote.When the Second Continental Congress...

To understand the most contentious issues around religious liberty, this volume provides influential philosophical ideas from the U.S.'s founding to the present day and key U.S. Supreme Court judgements to ask how the two twin pillars of religious...

For more than twenty-five years David Goldfield has interpreted southern urban history for audiences ranging from museumgoers to academics. His love affair with the discipline dates from its birth in the late sixties, and he has been among its primary...

"Dayn Perry, a damn fine writer, brings an insightful, fresh analysis to the career of Mr. October."--Peter Golenbock, author of George: The Poor Little Rich Boy Who Built the Yankee Empire FoxSports.com baseball analyst and author of Winners: How Good...

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was not trying to start a movement. She was simply tired of the social injustice. Yet, her simple act of courage started a chain of events that forever...

Having captivated millions during his tenure as the New York Times's "Frugal Traveler," Seth Kugel is one of our most internationally beloved travel writers. With the initial publication of Rediscovering Travel, he took the corporate modern travel...

By captivating millions during his six-year, fifty-country tenure as the New York Times's "Frugal Traveler," Seth Kugel has become one of our most internationally beloved travel writers. While his famously unassuming journeys around the globe have forged...

"An arresting piece of popular history." --Sean Wilentz, The New York Times Book ReviewNicholas Lemann opens this extraordinary book with a riveting account of the horrific events of Easter 1873 in Colfax, Louisiana, where a white militia of Confederate...

This is a brilliant and provocative work, and Robert L. Lattimer has captured the essence of our current time for constructive protest based on our nation's principles of liberty, freedom, opportunity, and achievement for all Americans, that the promise...