Collection: History

The riveting story of Puerto Rico, its flag, and its people—told in captivating verse by Pura Belpré Honor-winning author Anika Aldamuy Denise with gorgeous illustrations...

When Language Broke Open collects the creative offerings of forty-five queer and trans Black writers of Latin American descent who use poetry, prose, and visual...

From historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist Garrett M. Graff, America in 25 Revolutions follows America’s 250-year quest to fulfill the founders’ promise of a nation...

How contemporary artist Glenn Ligon’s expansive body of work mines American history and literature to ask critical questions about modern culture.OCTOBER Files: Glenn Ligon presents...

How African Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries invented mutual aid as we know it—and made the Underground Railroad possibleThis book tells the fascinating...

A powerful meditation on Blackness, ancestry and the natural world. In Elemental Blackness: Black Liberation and the Natural World, Cherise Morris weaves poetry, memoir, prayer...

Fans of Wildfire and the I Survived series will delight in this action-packed historical survival story about a girl and her younger brother braving the...

Founded in 1935, the New Farmers of America (NFA) was the first national organization for Black farm boys studying vocational agriculture at segregated public high...

The inspiring true story of the generation of Black officials who took their activism into the halls of power, working in historic leadership roles within...

Set on both sides of the Texas-Mexico border and spanning more than a century, this powerful multi-generational debut charts the fate of a gifted, young...

From one of the great storytellers of our time, an exquisite period piece—a disarming and memorable caper, in which not everything is quite as it...

A people's history of perfume--what the art of olfaction can teach us about ourselves and our common humanity How do Las Vegas casinos convey the...

An exciting social history encompassing music, culture, and real estate during the vital, artistically rich, and plain old fun period of the 1980s and ’90s...

Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated LiteratureAn acclaimed Syrian journalist crafts a vital portrait of October 7, 2023, and its aftermath through the harrowing...

How black gospel music crossed over, reshaped American popular music, and transformed the culture at large.Gospel music is the soundtrack of black Christian history, a...

With a foreword by Eric Clapton, the definitive story of the last great blues giant and how his fearless guitar style shaped rock ’n’ roll...

How Biddy Mason crossed the continent, broke free from slavery, and built Black Los Angeles. Born in bondage, Biddy Mason endured one of the longest...

From the Orbis Pictus Award–winning duo behind Between the Lines—including nine-time Coretta Scott King Award recipient and four-time Caldecott Honor artist Bryan Collier—comes a powerful...

Across centuries, Black women have invented means to preserve what official history could not: friendship albums, kitchen-table philosophy, blogs, playlists, oral histories, and archives held...

A lively and revelatory exploration of the history of the countertenor by Anthony Roth Costanzo, the Grammy Award-winning star of Philip Glass’s Akhnaten and “one...

The intimate, extraordinary biography of Dr. Margaret Morgan Lawrence, America’s first Black female psychoanalyst—written by her own daughter and featuring a new afterwordBorn in 1914...

The first publication dedicated to Indigenous typography, poster design, lettering and graphic arts across the Americas Design history has a problem. Native American and Indigenous...

Discover a world of creativity and tradition in this fascinating picture book that explores the history and cultural significance of the color yellow. From a...

The extraordinary biography of Salif Keïta, a Malian singer born with albinism, who overcame all odds to become a musical and social justice icon reminding all who...