Cultural Literature

Flight to Freedom is the story of author Ellen Oppenheimer's family's escape from the Nazis starting in Germany, 1933. They settled in Paris. When war was declared they left Paris and followed the same route that was shown in the film Casablanca. They...

Flesh and Stone is the story of the deepest parts of life--how women and men moved in public and private spaces, what they saw and heard, the smells that assailed them, where they ate, how they dressed, the mores of bathing and of making love--all in the...

A collaboration of artists and writers commemorates a powerful symbol for social justice and freedom on Chicago's South Side The Wall of Respect, a work of public art created in 1967 at the corner of Forty-third Street and Langley Avenue on Chicago's...

Published to coincide with Black History Month and the opening of the new Underground Railroad Museum in Cincinnati, Fleeing for Freedom includes selected narratives from the two most important contemporary chroniclers of the Underground Railroad, Levi...

A Prequle to Flatbush Zombies' 2016 debut LP, 3001: A Laced Oddyssey The official prequel to the Flatbush Zombies' debut album. Erick, Meech, and Juice were just three friends from Flatbush with the power to really move a crowd--until a supernatural...

Growing up in an African American working-class family in the Midwest, Jon Jeter watched the jobs undergirding a community disappear. As a journalist for the Washington Post (twice a Pulitzer Prize finalist), he reported on the freemarket reforms of the...

This landmark book shows how five African civilizations--Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River--have informed and are reflected in the aesthetic, social and metaphysical traditions (music, sculpture, textiles, architecture, religion,...

You know about the fleets of Britain, France, Spain, and America; but did you know that some of the most formidable naval forces in history were not European at all? As the 16th Century opened, the moors had been driven out of Spain and cast onto the...

On October 16, 1859, John Brown and his band of eighteen raiders descended on Harpers Ferry. In an ill-fated attempt to incite a slave insurrection, they seized the federal arsenal, took hostages, and retreated to a fire engine house where they...

"An illuminating portrait of Baltimore in the aftermath of the April 2015 death of Freddie Gray . . . Readers will be enthralled by this propulsive account."--Publishers Weekly LONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST...

Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink's landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina--and her suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. In the tradition of the best investigative journalism,...

Eric Hoffer--one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer--begins with a macro view on the progress of civilization, ending with his crucible vision on the unique and transformative aspects of mankind. (Restored to print...

Discover! the rich cultural heritage of Australia's first people then and now in one of the world's first centres of civilisation.Do you want to learn about the vast, sweeping epic story of Australia's first people dating from 65,000 years ago to the...

From "one of America's smartest political writers" (Glenn Beck) comes a fascinating and accessible history of the United States' unique and enduring relationship with guns, for fans of Chris Kyle's American Gun. For America, the gun is a story of...

Dunbar High School in Washington, DC, defied the odds and, in the process, changed America.In the first half of the twentieth century, Dunbar was an academically elite public school, despite being racially segregated by law and existing at the mercy of...

Derived from interviews with a wide range of people who experienced or observed New York's 1991 Crown Heights racial riots, Fires In The Mirror is as distinguished a work of commentary on black-white tensions as it is a work of drama. In August 1991...