Collection: History

The deep wounds in god's dream await meholding a silver sign with my name on it This bilingual edition, created as an active collaboration between...

A fiercely poetic, tenderly observed portrait of young women’s travels on the fringes of Mexico and the United States, by the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Liliana’s Invincible...

A dazzlingly inventive account of kinship and dispossession by a two-time Minnesota Book Award–winning authorIn his first work of nonfiction, poet chaun webster blends memoir,...

Now babies and toddlers can learn about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.! This sturdy board book edition of the popular Little Golden Book Biography has shorter,...

A portrait of Black life in the Great Plains, written by a key figure in the Chicago Renaissance and decades-long editor of Ebony. Era Bell Thompson...

With clear, conversational prose, this is the first book dedicated entirely to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's writings on translation. Through his many critically acclaimed novels, stories,...

The first comprehensive collection of Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's nonfiction, spanning lectures and texts on colonialism, labor and political struggles, and the legacies of...

In this biography, literary giant Maryse Condé recounts her early adult years in Guinea, Ghana, and Sénégal, set against the backdrop of their struggles for...

An updated and revised biography of Patrice Lumumba, former Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Patrice Lumumba (1926-61) is perhaps the most...

Author of Piñata, Leopoldo Goût's latest horror novel Rooted is a "a blood reckoning" (Marlon James) where one woman's return to Mexico City digs away the layers of her forgotten...

A whimsical picture book about the first Black woman magician in the world to run her own show, perfect for Black History Month and Women’s...

Set in 1904 August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean begins on the eve of Aunt Esther's 287th birthday. When Citizen Barlow comes to her Pittsburgh's Hill District...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100...

  For centuries, Black artists across the African diaspora have been architects of cultural innovation, resilience, and transformation. Their art, music, literature, and activism have...

  A new reissue of the acclaimed collection of essays blurring cultural criticism, memoir, even nonfiction itself, from the beloved Pulitzer Prize winner.White Girls is about,...

A collection of vibrant and incisive short stories depicting the sometimes humorous, but more often tragic interactions between Black people and white people in America...

Residual textures, patterns and structures of the abandoned Ebony and Jet offices represent both the spirit of a Black publishing empire and the sense of its loss Home to...

Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders' violent police regime continued after Emancipation, through Reconstruction,...

In this deeply personal book, Elizabeth Alexander gives us profound and galvanizing lessons from culture and life to move through challenging times. In close readings...

Discover the visionary legacy of the groundbreaking architect Paul R. Williams, one of the first Black members of the American Institute of Architects. Paul R....

An eloquent and original exploration of the Atlantic slave trade—now featuring the essay “Venus in Two Acts” and a new introduction by Dionne Brand.A monumental...

In her first nonfiction book, New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Xochitl Gonzalez traces her own history from working class Brooklyn to the corridors...

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by The New York Times“Daylight Come takes us to places no biography in recent memory has . . . This...

Published in 1967, as the early triumphs of the Civil Rights movement yielded to increasing frustration and violence, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual electrified a generation...