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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom (HC) (2023)
9781501191053$29.99The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and William posing as "his" slave. In 1848, a year of international democratic... -
Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance (PB) (2023)
9780674278622$19.95Winner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the David J. Langum PrizeWinner of the OAH Liberty Legacy Foundation AwardA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "This extraordinary book is a powerful addition to the history of travel segregation...Mia Bay... -
A Few Days Full of Trouble: Revelations on the Journey to Justice for My Cousin and Best Friend, Emmett Till (HC) (2023)
9780593134269$28.99The last surviving witness to the lynching of Emmett Till tells his story, with moving recollections of Emmett as a boy, critical insights into the recent investigation, and powerful lessons for racial reckoning, both then and now. In 1955, Emmett Till... -
Maryland Freedom Seekers on the Underground Railroad (PB) (2023)
9781467148719$23.99Journey with the unsung heroes of the Underground Railroad.Maryland was the starting point of many freedom seekers. They embarked on the perilous journey from slavery to freedom in whatever way they could. John Thompson signed onto a whaling ship. James... -
Enslaved, Indentured, Free: Five Black Women on the Upper Mississippi, 1800-1850 (PB) (2022)
9780870209895$24.95The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 made slavery illegal in the territory that would later become Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota. However, many Black individuals' rights were denied by white enslavers who continued to...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$24.95Subtotal: -
Never Forget Our People Were Always Free: A Parable of American Healing (HC)
9780062961747$27.99"One of the nation's most prominent civil rights leaders" (Washington Post), a New York Times bestselling author, community organizer, investigative journalist, Ivy League professor, and former head of the NAACP, Ben Jealous draws from a life lived on... -
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (PB) (2022)
9781324021582$20.00Saidiya Hartman has been praised as "one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers" (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and "a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy"... -
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (PB) (2021)
9781469663883$20.00LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDFINALIST, 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYBy the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally worked to end the practice of redlining. Reasoning that the turbulence could... -
Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power (HC) (2022)
9781541672802$35.00A prize-winning historian chronicles a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans' freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government that got in their way. American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$35.00Subtotal: -
Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War (PB) (2022)
9781324092407$19.95Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the fifteenth-century Age of Discovery and the maritime connection it established between West and East; others the accidental unearthing of... -
Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad (HC) (2022)
9781984880390$30.00The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor Matthew Delmont Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo... -
American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World (HC) (2019)
9781588383310$29.952019 Foreword INDIES Finalist American Founders reveals men and women of African descent as key protagonists in the story of American democracy. It chronicles how black people developed and defended New World settlements, undermined slavery, and... -
American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World (PB) (2022)
9781588384676$24.952019 Foreword INDIES Finalist American Founders reveals men and women of African descent as key protagonists in the story of American democracy. It chronicles how black people developed and defended New World settlements, undermined slavery, and... -
I Can't Wait to Call You My Wife: African American Letters of Love, Marriage, and Family in the Civil War Era (HC) (2022)
9781797213729$35.00This book honors the voices of African Americans of the Civil War era through their letters, inviting readers to engage personally with the Black historical experience. Amidst bloody battles and political maneuvering, thousands of African Americans spent... -
Power: The Rise of Black Women in America (HC) (2022)
9781510770027$26.99Black women are the great American success story: they must acknowledge their power and then wield the hell out of it. Like a shadow's distended, colorless depiction of reality, the truth about Black women has been contorted. In POWER: THE RISE OF BLACK...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$26.99Subtotal: -
Tuskegee University Cemetery Stories: The Lives That Built a Great American Educational Institution (PB) (2021)
9781588383587$17.95Tuskegee University Cemetery Stories chronicles the important contributions of those whose last home on this earth is the Tuskegee University Cemetery--those many men and women who diligently built on the foundation laid by Tuskegee founders Lewis Adams...