Subject: History
Down Along with That Devil’s Bones
In Down Along with That Devil’s Bones, journalist Connor Towne O’Neill takes a deep dive into American history, exposing the still-raging battles over monuments dedicated […]
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A Promised Land
Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly […]
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Pandemic 1918
Before AIDS or Ebola, there was the Spanish Flu — Pandemic 1918, marks the 100th anniversary of an epidemic that altered world history. In January […]
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His Truth Is Marching On
An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the painful quest for justice in […]
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Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher
In 1934, the nations most legendary crime-fighterfresh from taking on the greatest gangster in American history arrived in Cleveland, a corrupt and dangerous town about […]
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The Underground Railroad Records
A riveting collection of the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and mortal struggles of enslaved people seeking freedom: These are the true stories of the Underground Railroad.
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The Sword and the Shield
To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense vs. nonviolence, black power vs. civil rights, the sword vs. the […]
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The Burning
On the morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob numbering in the thousands marched across the railroad tracks dividing black from white in Tulsa, […]
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The Stonewall Reader
For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded […]
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American Rebels
Before they were central figures in American history, John Hancock, John Adams, Josiah Quincy Junior, Abigail Smith Adams, and Dorothy Quincy Hancock had forged intimate […]
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