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The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence (PB) (2024)
9781250321732$22.00"[An] erudite, enlightening new biography . . . [Waldstreicher's] interpretations equal Wheatley's own intentional verse, making it a joy to follow along as he unpacks her words and their arrangement." --Tiya Miles, The Atlantic"Thoroughly researched,... -
I've Been to the Mountaintop #2 (HC) (2024)
9780063351042$22.99A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's last speech "I've Been to the Mountaintop," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.On April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood at the pulpit of Mason Temple... -
Beyond Vietnam #3 (HC) (2024)
9780063351035$22.99A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "Beyond Vietnam," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.At New York City's Riverside Church in 1967, Dr. King stood in front of a rapt audience and... -
The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State (HC) (2022)
9781421442921$29.95The definitive account of the lynching of twenty-three-year-old Matthew Williams in Maryland, the subsequent investigation, and the legacy of "modern-day" lynchings.On December 4, 1931, a mob of white men in Salisbury, Maryland, lynched and set ablaze a... -
Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar (HC) (2023)
9780300270273$35.00A powerful and inspiring biography of Merze Tate, a trailblazing Black woman scholar and intrepid world traveler Born in rural Michigan during the Jim Crow era, the bold and irrepressible Merze Tate (1905-1996) refused to limit her intellectual... -
Haiti: The First Black Republic (PB) (2021)
9781736725627$12.99Haiti: The First Black Republic tells the story of how a group of enslaved Africans came together to fight for their freedom and created the first independent Black nation in the Americas. A lesson that is often left out of the history books, The Haitian... -
Why I March: Images from the Women's March Around the World (PB) (2017)
9781419728853$14.95New York Times Bestseller Indiebound Bestseller The Washington Post Bestseller San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller On January 21, 2017, five million people in 82 countries and on all seven continents stood up with one voice. The Women's March began with... -
Who's Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race (PB) (2024)
9780674295452$19.952023 PROSE Award in European History "An invaluable historical example of the creation of a scientific conception of race that is unlikely to disappear anytime soon."--Washington Post "Reveals how prestigious natural scientists once sought physical... -
Contested Valor: African American Marines in the Age of Power, Protest, and Tokenism (HC) (2023)
9780700635771$44.95Contested Valor is a challenging examination of the use and status of black Marines in United States military service during the Cold War era. These pioneering men experienced contested military integration, as well as multiple forms of institutional and... -
The Frederick Douglass Collection: A Library of America Boxed Set (HC) (2023)
9781598537697$82.50For the first time in a deluxe collector's boxed set, the definitive edition of the writings of the great African American freedom fighter, including all 3 of his classic memoirs and the best of his impassioned speeches and journalism For more than five...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$82.50Subtotal: -
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family (PB) (2024)
9781324094548$21.99Sarah and Angelina Grimke--the Grimke sisters--are revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand activists in the North. Their antislavery pamphlets, among the most... -
Saying It Loud: 1966--The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement (PB) (2024)
9781982114138$19.99Mark Whitaker "writes with the eye of a journalist and ear of a poet" (The Boston Globe) to tell the story of the momentous year that redefined the civil rights movement as a new sense of Black identity, expressed in the slogan "Black Power," challenged... -
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Georgia and the Power of the Vote (PB) (2024)
9781467109482$24.99Georgia and the Power of the Vote traces the history of Georgia's enfranchisement and its influence on American politics from 1865 to 2021. Since Reconstruction, Georgia's enfranchisement history has captured the nation's attention. During multiple... -
American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795 (PB) (2024)
9781324075219$17.99New attention from historians and journalists is raising pointed questions about the founding period: was the American revolution waged to preserve slavery, and was the Constitution a pact with slavery or a landmark in the antislavery movement? Leaders...