Collection: History

The untold history of slavery and resistance in California, from the Spanish missions, indentured Native American ranch hands, Indian boarding schools, Black miners, kidnapped Chinese...

Discover the sweeping story of how Indigenous, European, and African traditions intertwined to form an entirely new cuisine, with over 100 recipes for the modern...

Help your little one dream big with a Little Golden Book biography about writer, poet, and Civil Rights activist Maya Angelou. Little Golden Book biographies...

For fans of Aftershocks and How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, a gripping and deeply honest memoir in essays, this debut collection...

"An awe-striking masterpiece of love." -- Jason Reynolds, #1 New York Times bestselling author "The sentences alone in In Open Contempt make it one of the most memorable...

A shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare how forces from around the world converged on the Mississippi Delta...

A collection of literary essays about California from some of the state's most established, and most exciting upcoming writers.   Writing the Golden State: The...

A vision of the first decade of socialism in the United States. The diverse multinational working class has achieved political supremacy and is actively eliminating...

Perfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal―an ode to the steadfastness of a nation.Palestine is a microcosm of the...

Tracing five centuries of exploitation in Latin America, a classic in the field, now in its twenty fifth year Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century...

A groundbreaking collection of photographs and essays that shed new light on the history of Black America, from the Picturing Black History project. "An astonishing...

Major literary figure and "master of language" (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman uses his unique generational perspective to explore what he calls the "slaveroad,"...

Gather the midnight strands,tend the roots that gave you life,weave hopes into pathways--paths that lead you home.Day after day, Nemy sows seeds, pulls weeds, and...

We are in the fray of another signature moment in the long history of the United States as a project of anti-Black and racial-colonial violence. ...

This book, written with so much love, so much realism, so much honesty and so much literary beauty by my friend and comrade in the...

A radical analysis of Palestinian resistance from one of their most influential voices. Revisit Ghassan Kanafani's pivotal text in a new English edition. Kanafani presents...

"In The Conjuring of America, Lindsey Stewart offers nothing less than a rethinking of our national culture through the stories of 'conjure women.' When we talk...

From forgotten innovators like Anna M. Mangin to well-known inventors like James West, this picture book is a celebration of Black history and inventors with...

Soon to be a Major Motion Picture In the ebullient spirit of Ocean's 8, The Heist, and Thelma & Louise, a sensational and entertaining memoir of the...

A kaleidoscopic narrative history of 1963, the pivotal moment in America’s long civil rights movement—the year of the March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr.’s...

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 founder of popular BlackCrossword.com and author of the groundbreaking Black Crossword returns with a second fabulous collection, featuring 100 diverse-sized puzzles once again inspired by the...

The jazz musician-composer-arranger Mary Lou Williams spent her sixty-year career working in--and stretching beyond--a dizzying range of musical styles. Her integration of classical music into...

In the years immediately after the Civil War, tens of thousands of former slaves deposited millions of dollars into the Freedman's Bank. African Americans envisioned...