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Under Fire
Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Veteran White House reporter April Ryan thought she had seen everything in her two decades as a White House correspondent. And then came the Trump administration.
In Under Fire, Ryan takes us inside the confusion and chaos of the Trump White House to understand how she and other reporters adjusted...
Up From Slavery
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Up from Slavery is one of the most influential biographies ever written. On one level it is the life story of Booker T. Washington and his rise from slavery to accomplished educator and activist. On another level it the story of how an entire race strove to better itself. Washington makes it clear...
Rising Out of Hatred
The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, the powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist changed his heart and mind
Derek Black grew up at the epicenter of white nationalism. His father founded Stormfront, the largest racist community on the Internet. His godfather, David Duke, was a...
Master of the Mountain
Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Is there anything new to say about Thomas Jefferson and slavery? The answer is a resounding yes. Master of the Mountain, Henry Wiencek's eloquent, persuasive book—based on new information coming from archaeological work at Monticello and on hitherto overlooked or disregarded evidence in Jefferson's...
by Frederick Douglass
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
In Frederick Douglass' autobiography 'My Bondage and My Freedom' we can see the power of literacy and belief. Douglass transforms himself from slave to an abolitionist, journalist, orator, and one of the most powerful voices to emerge from the American civil rights movement with little more than force...
An Imperfect God
George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
An Imperfect God is a major new biography of Washington, and the first to explore his engagement with American slavery
When George Washington wrote his will, he made the startling decision to set his slaves free; earlier he had said that holding slaves was his "only unavoidable subject...
Lincoln's Gamble
The Tumultuous Six Months that Gave America the Emancipation Proclamation and Changed the Course of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
“A masterful psychological portrait” (George Stephanopoulos) of the most critical six months in Abraham Lincoln’s presidency, when he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation and changed the course of the Civil War.
On July 12, 1862, Abraham Lincoln spoke for the first time of his intention...
Breaking Hate
Confronting the New Culture of Extremism
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2020
A stunning exploration of how to heal a nation reeling from extremist violence from a viral TED speaker and onetime white-supremacist leader who now work as a peace activist disengaging hateful radicals.
At fourteen, Christian Picciolini was recruited by a now notorious skinhead leader and...
In Full Color
Finding My Place in a Black and White World
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
A lot of people have made up their minds about Rachel Doležal. But none of them know her real story. In June 2015, the media outed” Rachel Doležal as a white woman who had knowingly been passing” as Black. When asked if she were African American during an interview about the hate crimes directed...
More Than Freedom
Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
A major new narrative account of the long struggle of Northern activists-both black and white, famous and obscure-to establish African Americans as free citizens, from abolitionism through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and its demise
Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is generally...
Madison Park
A Place of Hope
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Welcome to Madison Park, a small community in Alabama founded by freed slaves in 1880. And meet Eric Motley, a native son who came of age in this remarkable place where constant lessons in self-determination, hope, and unceasing belief in the American dream taught him everything he needed for his...
Enslaved
The New British Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Slavery in Britain did not end with William Wilberforce at the beginning of the nineteenth century. They may be largely invisible to us, but living in our midst are thousands of slaves. Rahila Gupta seeks out five escapees and persuades them to tell us their stories in this compelling book. We meet...
The Beast Side
Living (and Dying) While Black in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
A New York Times Best Seller!
To many, the past 8 years under President Obama were meant to usher in a new post-racial American political era, dissolving the divisions of the past. However, when seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot by a wannabe cop in Florida; and then Ferguson, Missouri,...
Passing Strange
A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2009
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The secret double life of the man who mapped the American West, and the woman he loved
Clarence King was a late nineteenth-century celebrity, a brilliant scientist and explorer once described by Secretary of State John Hay as "the...