Collection: History

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...

From the award-winning author of Beasts of No Nation and Speak No Evil, an insightful and deeply relevant collection of essays about America as it...

A bold, pioneering, "free-souled" and long-rare classic of concrete poetry, available for the first time in 50 years Originally published by Doubleday and Company in...

  Huey P. Newton was called many things in his time: revolutionary, genius, criminal, even the most surveilled human being in world history. Yet, little...

A modern guide to cooking with spices, featuring more than 300 globally inspired recipes designed for home cooks Elevate your everyday cooking with this comprehensive,...

Explore the wondrous world of fungi, mushrooms, and mycelium in this captivating visual survey With millions of species worldwide, fungi and mushrooms are some of...

A moving portrait of Yuri Kochiyama--an ordinary woman who became an extraordinary activist--and her bond with Malcolm X When Japanese American activist Yuri Kochiyama shook...

A masterly, haunting new novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World as “the 21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe,” Half of a...

What we need is a little more love. A little more hope. And a lot more Warwick, please. From six-time Grammy Award-winning musical icon and...

A passionate and illuminating account of soul, the hard-won wisdom shepherded by Black people throughout generations How did enslaved Africans turn America's infamous failure into...

Ashia Ajani's Heirloom stands as a poetic homage to the profound legacy of her family's migration journey - a path traversing from Bentonia, Mississippi to...

The definitive account of how a discarded strand of hair found in Thomas Jefferson’s Bible led to a sweeping, multi-year genomic investigation, drawing on technological...

An inspiring board book!Introduce young readers to important females from history and today and learn about International Women’s Day in this vibrant, celebratory book!On March...

  The Crisis magazine is the official publication of NAACP. It was created in 1910 by renowned historian, civil rights activist, and NAACP co-founder W....

An urgent anthology featuring some of the most eminent Black voices of our time reckoning with, reacting to, and rewriting the Declaration of Independence for...

In the spirit of On Tyranny, a ten-point plan for how feminist principles can be harnessed to combat totalitarianism, authoritarianism, and fascism. Far-right authoritarians have...

This title, Schooling Against the Prison, is the latest title to be released in our flagship Race and Education series. It also takes the honor...

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...