General History

"Spell Freedom draws us in with lucid prose, filling in the holes of American history with the work of Septima Clark and Bernice Robinson and their compatriots, who deftly wielded reading and writing as their weapons of choice in the 20th century fight...

A Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award Finalist (Best Fact Crime) * A Virginia Literary Awards Finalist"A haunted, historical legal thriller." -- Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionFrom the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Chesapeake Requiem...

Family Foundations: Four Stories of Black Washtenaw Community Building 1850-1950 features the origin stories of four historic Black families from the Washtenaw County area: The Jewett and Asher-Aray families from Ann Arbor and Pittsfield Township, and...

If you could choose between being Black and being white, what would you do?As a child, Brianna Wheeler, the mixed-race descendant of Dangerfield Newby-first of John Brown's raiders to die at Harpers Ferry in their bid to end slavery-unconsciously chose...

Our nation's first elected Black governor, L. Douglas Wilder, returned to public service in 2005 as the first popularly elected mayor of Richmond, Virginia, in sixty years. Despite his landslide election, voters may have had little idea what they were...

Our nation's first elected Black governor, L. Douglas Wilder, returned to public service in 2005 as the first popularly elected mayor of Richmond, Virginia, in sixty years. Despite his landslide election, voters may have had little idea what they were...

On The Outside Looking In is about how I came to view the American Experiment through my own experiences and that of black people around me. It is not a complaint, although there is some of that in this book. It is more of an observation of life, or an...

FEDERALISM IMPERATIVE IN POST-CONFLICT AFRICA: THE CASE OF SOMALIA is a groundbreaking exploration of federalism in Somalia, the author delves deep into the complex tapestry of history, politics and culture that shapes the nation's governance structure...

FEDERALISM IMPERATIVE IN POST-CONFLICT AFRICA: THE CASE OF SOMALIA is a groundbreaking exploration of federalism in Somalia, the author delves deep into the complex tapestry of history, politics and culture that shapes the nation's governance structure...

In the preface to his biography of John Brown, W. E. B. Du Bois writes that the book "is at once a record of and a tribute to the man who of all Americans has perhaps come nearest to touching the real souls of black folk." Du Bois alludes to this in...

Faith Confronts Evil tells the stories of African American women before the Civil War who countered the rampant evil of slavery with the strength of their Christian faith. They claimed the words of the gospel, that Jesus comes to set the captives free...

Faith Confronts Evil tells the stories of African American women before the Civil War who countered the rampant evil of slavery with the strength of their Christian faith. They claimed the words of the gospel, that Jesus comes to set the captives free...