Cultural Literature

The Life of an Enigma is an engaging read about an interesting and memorable life lived under uniquely challenging surroundings and times. The book is also an anthropological, sociological, and religious inquiry into the cultures and traditions of John...

The Life of an Enigma is an engaging read about an interesting and memorable life lived under uniquely challenging surroundings and times. The book is also an anthropological, sociological, and religious inquiry into the cultures and traditions of John...

My autobiography recounts my life from 1980 as an African Peace Corps child until I became a Us citizen in 2012. I lived a full life as a needy child from a povertystricken nuclear family of nine and believe I have something fascinating to share with the...

The book tells the true storie in the Lower -Congo in the last century . While the majority of the territory assigned to the Belgian colonial power at the Berlin Conference in 1877, is still unexplored, born in 1921 in the village of Luvituku a girl...

This book is about some of the life experiences of a retired chief of the Nanticoke Indian Tribe of Delaware. He informs us what it was like growing up in a state that tries to deny your existence. He tell us of the difficulties of trying to maintain...

Reverend Herbert David Parker was a messenger for Christ for fifty-one years, and a friend to mankind. He was a living testimony that a man of God can be strong and yet still maintain humility. He often let the people know that he was just an instrument,...

The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer--recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars--sheds light on the longstanding connection between race and incarceration in America."[A] harrowing [portrait] of life...

I am writing this book to tell the story of a kid from Everett who joined the Army in the early 1960s and served in Korea, Asia, and West Germany. As a young man, I believed then as I do now about service above self. I hope that this story will be...

Huddie Ledbetter (1889-1949), known to millions of fans simply as Leadbelly, was arguably the most famous black singer in American history. His close musical associations included such towering figures as Blind Lemon Jefferson, Woody Guthrie, Pete...

Left destitute after the Civil War by the death of David Winfree, her former master and the father of her children, Emily Winfree underwent unimaginable hardships to keep her family together. Living with them in the tiny cottage he had given her, she...

Blues legend B.B. King spent his life sharing the music of his soul, which shone relentlessly through hardship and triumph alike.Born on a cotton plantation in 1925, the man born Riley B. King would grow up to be one of the most influential blues...

- A biography of Anne Eisner: from her early years and art in New York to the Ituri Forest in the Congo with Patrick Putnam, and back againThis biography traces Anne Eisner's life and art between cultures: from her early years and artistic career in New...