Subject: History
South to America
We all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there, who have never even been there, can rattle off a list […]
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Of Blood and Sweat
Clyde W. Ford uses the lives of individual Black men and women as a lens to explore the role they have played in creating American […]
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White Lies
A riveting biography of Walter White, a little-known Black civil rights leader who passed for white in order to investigate racist murders, help put the […]
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Race and Reckoning
Ellis Cose’s groundbreaking latest work interrogates pivotal decisions from enslavement to the New Deal to the handling of Covid that established the United States discriminatory […]
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Born of Lakes and Plains
A fresh history of the West grounded in the lives of mixed-descent Native families who first bridged and then collided with racial boundaries. Often overlooked, […]
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In the Heart of It All
Former Ohio governor Richard Celeste’s remarkable journey from humble beginnings in northeast Ohio to Yale, Oxford, Washington DC, India, the governor’s residence, and beyond “Dick, […]
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Modern Conspiracies in America
America is awash with alleged conspiracies. It seems like today, no one with a cell phone escapes the vortex of skepticism, cynicism, paranoia, and fear […]
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Half American
Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, […]
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Formidable
The Nineteenth Amendment was an incomplete victory. A century later, women are still grappling with how to use the vote and their political power to […]
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