In the Jim Crow era, along with black churches, schools, and newspapers, African Americans also had their own history. Making Black History focuses ...

After reading J. A. Baker's fifty-year-old British nature classic The Peregrine , John Lane found himself an ocean away, stalking resident red-shouldered ...

The Hunt v. Arnold decision of 1959 against the state of Georgia marked a watershed moment in the fight against segregation in higher education. Though ...

This study details how the development and maturation of New Negro politics and thought were shaped not only by New York-based intellectuals and revolutionary ...

Growing up in the rural South, Bessie Jones sang her way through long hours of field work and child tending, entertaining her young companions with chants ...

When D. H. Lawrence wrote his classic study of American literature, he claimed that youth was the 'true myth' of America. Beginning from this assertion ...

In the early sixties, Stuart Schlegel went into a remote rainforest on the Philippine island of Mindanao as an anthropologist in search of material. What ...

As a high-ranking American diplomat during the Cold War, Martin J. Hillenbrand was witness to some of the most exciting moments in twentieth-century history. ...

Deep Enough for Ivorybills is a powerful, thoughtful collection of autobiographical writings about James Kilgo's hunting and fishing excursions ...