Collection: History

In American popular music, we often glorify rebellious artists and "outlaws." But in The Midnight Special, Colin Asher tells a deeper story about the criminal justice...

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR • Award-winning author and journalist Wil Haygood explores how the Vietnam War became a mirror for the struggle...

“A crucial, fiery account of Puerto Rico and Cuba’s colonial reality." –Mohammed El-Kurd, author of Perfect Victims Niki and her family packed up their lives...

Meticulously crafted and unflinchingly vulnerable, Nicole R. Fleetwood's multigenerational family portrait braids the intimate life of a neighborhood with the historic arc that shaped it...

Winner, 2026 S-USIH Annual Book Prize, Society for U.S. Intellectual History Winner, 2026 Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History, African American Intellectual History...

A powerful look at this important African American artist whose bold color, luminous style, and vision helped shape modern art, published to accompany a major...

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller How the Word Is Passed takes us on an astonishingly original—and heartbreakingly intimate—journey to meet some of World War II's...

In this series of essays Fred Moten and Stefano Harney draw on the theory and practice of the black radical tradition as it supports, inspires,...

PERIOD founder and Harvard College student Nadya Okamoto offers a manifesto on menstruation and why we can no longer silence those who bleed--and how to...

The must-have companion for classic cocktails, mocktails, and creative drinks, plus historical insights, from a celebrated industry icon. Good Spirits is a culture-rich cocktail exploration that...

From the winner of James Beard, Harriet Tubman, and Whiting Awards, a shimmering and unexpected vision of the world we inhabit together From the celebrated...

In this "unjustly neglected" masterpiece, Nancy Lemann gives an atmospheric account of the New Orleans trial of the Governor of Louisiana for racketeering, fraud, and...

Fat Performance is the first published edited collection dedicated to fat performance. The text connects materials from across scholarship on fat performance and provides the readership...

INDEPENDENCE WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING: A historian and former presidential speechwriter traces the origins and legacy of the words and ideas that made America.Illustrations and...

  A surge of African American enrolment and student activism brought Black Studies to many US campuses in the 1960s. Sixty years later, Black Studies...

The "heart-stopping" (The Millions), "richly layered" (Brooklyn Rail), "haunting, beautiful" (BuzzFeed) story of an escaped captive and the killer hound that pursues him"Slave Old Man is...

Flip through hundreds of record sleeve artworks from Folkways, one of the most iconic independent record labels dedicated to global music The Folkways Records and...

A stunning survey of the boom in independence-era building by western African architects in the mid-20th century, expressed across universities, hotels, banks, museums and more...

The sequel to the beloved anthology continues its collective portrait of Arab Modernism as a lived, deeply human experience Like its predecessor, this second volume...

A compelling love story--inspired by the author's own family history--set in the segregated South during and after World War II, perfect for fans of Kristin...

“You will bow before this queen.” —Sara Raasch, New York Times bestselling author of Night of the Witch “Revenge and justice have never been so...

Set largely in the twelve-block area that would encompass Lincoln Center, The Jungles vibrantly reclaims the historic oasis that was once widely known as San Juan Hill,...

Uses an intersectional and intertextual methodology to present a rigorous yet accessible study of Black queer women artists in theater and film. In A Conditional Embrace, Kristyl...

Recovers a previously hidden theater and performance history of Black women engaging with Shakespeare as actors, playwrights, costume designers, and directors. This catalog documents and...