Biography & Memoir
Signals Across Vast Distances: Essays and Tales
eBook
A call to courage and connection from prize-winning poet and champion for the arts and humanities
The Lord Is a Man of War: John Brown and His World
eBook
From a leading historian, a sweeping, revisionist biography of the militant abolitionist John Brown, perhaps the most important radical in American history
The Other Immigrant Story: Rethinking Assimilation
eBook
A case study and analysis of the challenges of “assimilation” through four generations of a Mexican-American family
Mahalia Jackson, Moving On Up a Little Higher: The Story of an American Civil Rights Pioneer
eBook
“Mahalia Jackson was the greatest gospel singer of her time and an overlooked leader in the Civil Rights Movement. Her voice seemed born of heaven.” – Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The Critic: Ada Louise Huxtable and the Building of Modern America
eBook
The extraordinary life of the pioneering The New York Times architecture critic who changed how Americans saw our cities