History

Dominique Jean-Louis identifies and reveals New York City's most significant Black historical landmarks in our latest map. Featuring fifty locations, descriptions, original photography, and an introduction to the history and impact of Black people in New...

From colorful characters like Cato Alexander, New York's first celebrity bartender, to sad and disturbing stories about Jack Daniel's heirs, Makers & Shakers has a little bit of everything for everyone. Join Washington, D.C.-based author and producer of...

A Scientific American Favorite Book of 2025 The riveting story of the McKissack family--the founders of the leading Black design and construction firm in the United States, from its beginnings in the mid-1800s to its thriving status today--in a moving...

Admire stunning Christian imagery of Ethiopian Orthodox Church art in this lavishly illustrated volume with informative essays and more than 100 images Ethiopia is one of the world's oldest Christian civilizations, and its rich artistic history often...

NOTE: This edition contains a black and white photo section.About this EditionThis is the Paperback Edition of Rooted. It includes the complete memoir in its entirety, with all photographs presented in black and white. This edition offers the same...

In 1974-75 the people of two West African countries, Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, put an end to 500 years of Portuguese colonial exploitation. Led by a popular movement forged by Amílcar Cabral, their struggle triggered the collapse of Portugal's...

And the Lights Dimmed is a revelatory book about the causal events that distorted Nigeria's electric power supply sector and agelong efforts.It follows the author from his childhood and early education in Benin City, Edo State, to the start of his career...

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...

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...