History books

In 1829, Samuel Wood and Sons, a New York publisher of children's literature, printed and sold the Quaker Abigail...  Read More >>

The Colonel's Dream from Charles Waddell Chesnutt. Mixed race author, essayist, political activist and lawyer (1858-1932)....  Read More >>

J. McHenry Jones's Hearts of Gold is a gripping tale of post-Civil War battles against racism and systemic injustice....  Read More >>

Virtually unknown outside of her hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, Jane Edna Harris Hunter was one of the most influential...  Read More >>

Between 1899 and 1908, five long works of fiction by the Nashville-based black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs...  Read More >>

This is an exceptional antebellum biography, chronicling Elleanor Eldridge's life from her birth through the first...  Read More >>

This is a recently recovered novel written by William Anderson and Walter Stowers, two of the editors of the Detroit...  Read More >>

Randolph's writings give us a window into a different experience of slavery and freedom than other narratives currently...  Read More >>

Edited and introduced by Tess Chakkalakal and Kenneth W. Warren, this new critical edition offers not only an incisive...  Read More >>

This is the remarkable memoir of Lidia Lukes-Hitchcock, a film production manager who fled communist Prague to forge...  Read More >>

Despite Japan's long-held reputation as an ethnically homogeneous country largely closed to foreigners, the number...  Read More >>

In Literature for Little Bodhisattvas, Natasha Heller makes two key interventions: first, she argues that picturebooks...  Read More >>

They tried to erase her. Instead, she became a legend. At just seven years old, Edna Szurek risked everything...  Read More >>

«México no existe antes del encuentro de Moctezuma y Cortés. De ese encuentro tenemos ideas aprendidas en primaria...  Read More >>

This project is a labor of love manifested in a lifelong father-quest. It is, simply, something I had to do. As...  Read More >>

For what is food but the greatest expression of joy and hurt in the world, Annette Januzzi Wick writes in this blending...  Read More >>

Uncover the remarkable journey of Irish convict John Frawley as he blended history and genealogy, in forging a pioneering...  Read More >>

This bilingual volume presents different kinds of award-winning reportage articles from Regional Newspapers in America...  Read More >>

If only a believer would scratch my back, someone else's jack is all I lack. I can hit pay dirt with someone else's...  Read More >>

If only a believer would scratch my back, someone else's jack is all I lack. I can hit pay dirt with someone else's...  Read More >>

From the earliest of times, the Gypsy Traveller community were renowned for their storytelling. It was how they...  Read More >>

Anyone who has an interest in the history of this part of the Cotswolds and the adjacent vale will find much to...  Read More >>

Iron-willed men dug for gold. A hundred and fifty years later, two brothers dig there, too, and find gold of their...  Read More >>

Iron-willed men dug for gold. A hundred and fifty years later, two brothers dig there, too, and find gold of their...  Read More >>

Sometimes the most painful aspect of life is when one's contributions are forgotten. Such may be the case with...  Read More >>