American History
American History
Formation: The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation
What do you get when dare-devil Jihadists, mad English missionaries and proud, stubborn, warring natives meet in a clash? Nigeria. Formation: From Jihad to Amalgamation tracks the unlikely series of events and characters that turned a collection of disparate nations into...
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Black Man of The Nile (paperback)
Black Man of the Nile and His Family, first published in 1972, is Dr. Ben's best known work. It captures much of the substance of his early research on ancient Africa. In a masterful and unique manner, Dr. Ben uses...
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Germany's Black Holocaust, 1890-1945: The Untold Truth!
In the 1890s Blacks were tortured in German concentration camps in Southwest Africa (now called Namibia) when Adolph Hitler was only a child. Colonial German doctors conducted unspeakable medical experiments on these emaciated helpless Africans decades before such atrocities were...
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Proudly Red and Black: Stories of African and Native Americans
A study of the relationship between native American and African-American people profiles six people of mixed African and native American ancestry, including colonial trader Richard Cuffe, Senator Robert Smalls, and artist Edmonia Lewis.
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Black Pioneers: An Untold Story
BLACK PIONEERS: AN UNTOLD STORY one of Katz’s four important books on the African American experience as western pioneers. It has a new Preface by Kenneth B. Morris, Jr. great, great, great grandson of Frederick Douglass, and founder of the...
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Breaking the Chains: African American Slave Resistance
Centering Black voices and the narratives of enslaved people, this young adult history offers a thoroughly researched account with first-hand testimonies of how people in bondage were themselves a driving force behind their own emancipation.Features a new introduction by Robin...
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The Lincoln Brigade: A Picture History
THE LINCOLN BRIGADE The day after Christmas in 1936, a group of ninety-six Americans sailed from New York to help Spain defend its democratic government against fascism. Ultimately, twenty-eight hundred United States volunteers reached Spain to become the Abraham Lincoln...
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The Bathysphere Book
Winner of the 2024 National Book Foundation's Science + Literature AwardA Washington Post top 10 best book of 2023A Publishers Weekly best nonfiction book of 2023"Hypnotic . . . Beautifully written and beautifully made."—W. M. Akers, The New York Times Book Review"one of the...
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The Artisans - A Vanishing Chinese Village
Evoking Studs Terkel, Shen Fuyu delivers a rollicking deep dive into working life in a small village in rural China, tracing the last 100 years of history.Born in Shen Village in Southeast China, Shen Fuyu grew up in a family...
$25.00
Stalking the Atomic City
“His is a voice that must be heard.” —Patti Smith“A poetic rush to madness. . . a stunning, original voice as lyrical as it is unnerving."—Alan Weisman, author of The World Without Us and Countdown"In the shadow of catastrophe, Markiyan Kamysh writes with...
$28.00
Always Remember Your Name
*NOW WITH A DETAILED READING GROUP GUIDE* A haunting WWII memoir of two sisters who survived Auschwitz that picks up where Anne Frank's Diary left off and gives voice to the children we lost.On March 28, 1944, six-year-old Tati and her...
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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Can't Stop Won't Stop is a powerful cultural and social history of the end of the American century, and a provocative look into the new world that the hip-hop generation created.Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop...
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It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him
From a talented young journalist on the rise, a deeply reported, timely new biography of the Notorious B.I.G., publishing for what would have been his 50th birthday. The Notorious B.I.G. was one of the most charismatic and talented artists of...
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Kindezi: The Kongo Art of Babysitting
The authors present the importance of this African tradition. Kindezi (the art of babysitting) and the ndezi (the babysitters) provide extensive value and service to both society and the individual child, making for a cohesive, unified community.
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Adapted for Young Adults)
Now adapted for young adults—the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir, which Toni Morrison called “quite extraordinary,” offers an intimate look at Barack Obama’s early days. This is a compelling journey tracing the future 44th president's odyssey through family, race, and identity. A...
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Ancient Egypt The Light of the World: Vol. 1 and 2
A WORK OF RECLAMATION AND RESTITUTION IN TWELVE BOOKS Vol. I and 2. It may have been a million years ago The Light was kindled in the Old Dark Land With which the illumined Scrolls are all aglow, That Egypt...
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Not Stolen: The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World (paperback)
A renowned historian debunks current distortion and myths about European colonialism in the New World and restores much needed balance to our understanding of the past.Was America really “stolen” from the Indians? Was Columbus a racist? Were Indians really peace-loving,...
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The Year of the Lash: Free People of Color in Cuba and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
Michele Reid-Vazquez reveals the untold story of the strategies of negotiation used by free blacks in the aftermath of the “Year of the Lash”―a wave of repression in Cuba that had great implications for the Atlantic World in the next...
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The Year of the Lash: Free People of Color in Cuba and the Nineteenth-Century
Michele Reid-Vazquez reveals the untold story of the strategies of negotiation used by free blacks in the aftermath of the “Year of the Lash”―a wave of repression in Cuba that had great implications for the Atlantic World in the next...
$149.50
Year of Fire, Year of Ash: The Soweto Schoolchildren’s Revolt that Shook Apartheid
'We can say without fear of being contradicted by history, that June 16, 1976 heralded the beginning of the end of the centuries-old white rule in this country.'Nelson MandelaOriginally banned on publication by the apartheid government, Year of Fire, Year of...
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Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable transition from a world of empires to one of nations―a world in which self-determination was synonymous with nation-building―obscure just...
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Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable transition from a world of empires to one of nations―a world in which self-determination was synonymous with nation-building―obscure just...
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The World Colonization Made: The Racial Geography of Early American Empire
According to accepted historical wisdom, the goal of the African Colonization Society (ACS), founded in 1816 to return freed slaves to Africa, was borne of desperation and illustrated just how intractable the problems of race and slavery had become in...
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Working the Diaspora: The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650-1850
From the sixteenth to early-nineteenth century, four times more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. While this forced migration stripped slaves of their liberty, it failed to destroy many of their cultural practices, which came with...
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Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire
First published in 1926, Drusilla Dunjee Houston (a self-taught historian), describes the origin of civilization and establishes links among the ancient Black populations in Arabia, Persia, Babylonia, and India. In each case she concludes that the ancient Blacks who inhabited...
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Who Betrayed the African World Revolution?: And Other Speeches
This collection of speeches covers an array of topics from the contributions of Nile Valley civilizations to the future of Pan-Africanism in the 21st century.
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White Supremacy: A Comparative Study of American and South African History
A comparative history of race relations in the U.S. and South Africa seeks to explain the different paths each nation followed
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White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture (Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany)
Analyzing literary texts and films, White Rebels in Black shows how German authors have since the 1950s appropriated black popular culture, particularly music, to distance themselves from the legacy of Nazi Germany, authoritarianism, and racism, and how such appropriation changes over time....
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