Collection: History

From a #1 New York Times bestselling author, podcast host, and legal expert comes an accessible and modern guide on how to read and understand the U.S. Constitution.Think of...

"Exquisitely deep in vogue." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Kicking off a picture book series of LGBTQ+ biographies is this inspiring story of the incomparable dancer Willi Ninja,...

Celebrating eight decades of Camara's visionary totemic sculptures that visualize motifs of motherhood and ancestry Gathering select works completed between 1990 and 2022, this volume...

Desire Path explores how everyday life, memory, history, and politics work against and toward each other across communities and national boundaries. This collection pleats numerous lives:...

Pulitzer Prize–winning former Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson tells our nation’s torturous racial history through his own family’s story, starting with his great-grandfather’s freedom from slavery and...

  Puerto Rico is often depicted as a "racial democracy" in which a history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society. In Remixing Reggaetón,...

The New York Times bestselling memoir now adapted for young adults! Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to ever be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court,...

Let's keep the puzzle party going with more Black culture and pop history in this unique and engaging collection of crosswords for puzzlers of all...

A young model is catapulted from her life in Jamaica to the international world of high fashion in this tender, powerful novel about the distance...

In this multi-layered debut novel, Keletso Mopai dives into the world of post-apartheid South Africa in a small town, where a devastating act of racial...

Both an epic history and an intimate family story, a startling account of the lives of Black cops in one Midwestern city.In the wake of...

Winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize Award and recognized as the best book of fiction in the 21st century by the New York Times, Edward P....

WINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION “An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South—and thus of America—by an esteemed daughter...

“This incendiary j’accuse isn’t afraid to name names.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review“Indigeneity is caught between truth tellers and tricksters.…Dina Gilio-Whitaker boldly espouses our truths while confronting...

A riveting, kaleidoscopic exploration of the American compulsion toward cruelty and its expression through rituals of degradation for citizen and immigrant alike—from an award-winning writer...

Gloria Steinem offers an inspiring and candid memoir of her early life and the journey that made her one of the world’s most influential activists...

Based on the true story of Alessandro de' Medici, this sweeping novel follows a Black woman's secret plot to put her son on a Renaissance...

An expansive history of Native America and winner of the National Book Award, now adapted for younger readers.An essential resource for teachers and students that...

The only issue-by-issue, story-by-story history of Spider-Man comics from the wall crawler's first appearance in Amazing Fantasy #15 (August 1962) to the present. Fully-illustrated with archival images. From...

Fifty years before the United States went to war over the issue, Chile abolished slavery. Colombia followed in 1821, and Mexico soon after. Black Americans...

From an award-winning author-illustrator team, Indigenous from A to Z offers a bold, beautiful, authentic view of Indigenous peoples' history, culture, values, and future -- essential for Native...

Howard Zinn's classic account of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), one of the most significant and creative organizations to shape the course of the...

From a dedicated member of Beyoncé’s “BeyHive”, an in-depth exploration of the lessons and affirmations of Beyoncé’s work and how she continues to speak for...

Acclaimed New Yorker contributor Lauren Michele Jackson delivers an essay collection devoted to the back—and the conflicting ideas we load onto it. Moving across literature, film, sport,...