History

Discover the Extraordinary True Story of America's First Free Black CommunityIn 1738, decades before the American Revolution, a former slave named Francisco Men?ndez achieved something historians once thought impossible: he founded and commanded North...

An Amazon Best History Title of the Month A revelatory history of enslaved people's resistance and self-emancipation, across the Atlantic world and beyond. In the 1720s, the West African chief Tomba was abducted for organizing the local resistance...

This book is the first true and full account of the 34 months of weapons manufacturing activities of Biafra s Research and Armaments Production (RAP).RAP was secretly nucleated and named by an Arrowhead Troika of engineers in March 1967, following...

On Back of Track: The Epidemic of Violence among African-American Youth in the Gresham Park Community, Dr. Hubert Brown research offers an astounding reality check into violence which challenge the existence, maintenance, and sustenance of the future of...

A bold manifesto arguing that there is a clear precedent for paying reparations to atone for America's original sin of slavery, offering a compelling legal strategy to achieve this goal--from the acclaimed author of The Whiteness of Wealth. The idea of...

Hidden History of Black Cincinnati reveals the untold stories that shaped a city and defined a people. Long before the Civil Rights Movement or the Harlem Renaissance, Black Cincinnatians were building communities, owning businesses, and resisting...

The Hostile Takeover of Paradise and the Strategy to Ungentrify Frontier Markets: The Next $100 Trillion OpportunityIt took exactly 100 years from when communities in Paradise consistently sold hundreds of thousands of pounds of surplus food to British...

'POETIC AND FIERCE' - Olivette Otele, author of AFRICAN EUROPEANS'A RICH, SUMPTUOUS AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN TAPESTRY' - Candice Carty-Williams, author of QUEENIE'A SEARING, NOURISHING JOURNEY THROUGH A HISTORY THE WORLD NEEDS'- Bettany Hughes, author of...

The gripping tale of three Sudanese boys who were driven from their homes by civil war and began an epic odyssey of survival, ultimately finding their way to a new life in America "A moving, beautifully written account, by turns raw and tender." --Los...

Our nation's transportation system is crumbling: highways are collapsing, roads are pockmarked, and commuter trains are unreliable. But as acclaimed scholar and ACLU president Deborah Archer warns in Dividing Lines, before we can think about rebuilding...

THE TRUTH BEHIND THE GREEN REVOLUTION.Are you holding a crime scene in your hand?We are told that the transition to green energy is the key to saving the planet. But for the Democratic Republic of Congo, this "revolution" has a dark price. In Blood,...

A Nation Without: The History America Forgot by Mack E. Smith and Sara Freeman SmithA Nation Without is a bold and timely novel that reimagines a familiar redemption story on moral reckoning for modern America. When a man immersed in prejudice is...