Hollywood Films of the Seventies: Sex, Drugs, Violence, Rock 'n' Roll and Politics

By Seth Cagin

At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America

By Philip Dray

"It is easy to shrink from our country's brutal history of lynching. Lynching is called the last great skeleton in our nation's closet: It terrorized all of black America, claimed thousands upon th...

We Are Not Afraid

By Seth Cagin

1964 Mississippi is burning with bigotry and violence. Three young civil rights workers - James Chane, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner - are murdered in cold blood by the Ku Klux Klan and loc...

We are not afraid

By Seth Cagin

Capitol men

By Philip Dray

Pulitzer Prize finalist Philip Dray shines a light on a little known group of men: the nation's first black members of Congress. These men played a critical role in pushing for much-needed reforms...

Stealing God's Thunder: Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America

By Philip Dray

Yours for Justice, Ida B. Wells

By By Philip Dray Illustrated By Stephen Alcorn

The award-winning picture book tells the inspirational story of journalist Ida B. Wells and her crusade for justice and civil rights. A must-have for American, Black, and women's history collection...

We Are Not Afraid

By Philip Dray, Seth Cagin

It was one of the most haunting crimes in American history--the abduction and killing of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner in rural Neshoba County, Mississipp...

At the Hands of Persons Unknown

By

WINNER OF THE SOUTHERN BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION • “A landmark work of unflinching scholarship.”—The New York Times This extraordinary account of lynching in America, by acclaimed ci...

There Is Power in a Union

By Philip Dray

From the nineteenth-century textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth century and their waning influence today, the contest between labor and capital for the...