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Louis Ferrante

Borgata: Clash of Titans

The first hundred years of the American Mafia's existence would come to be seen as a golden age. From small-town Sicily to glittering Las Vegas, the mob had carefully expanded and consolidated their power…

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 (Deluxe-Edition)

Kristen Martin

The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow

"Pairing powerful critiques of popular orphan narratives, from Annie to the Boxcar Children to Party of Five, journalist Kristen Martin explores the real history of orphanhood in the United States fr…

Arthur Ashe

A Hard Road to Glory, Volume 3 (1946-1992)

With a Foreword by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe

Zev Eleff

The Greatest of All Time

Americans love to talk about 'greatness.' In this book, Zev Eleff explores the phenomenon of 'greatness' culture and what Americans really mean when they talk about greatness. Greatness discourse provides…

Louis Ferrante

Borgata: Clash of Titans

The explosive second volume of former mobster's Lou Ferrante's BORGATA trilogy in which we learn of the existential threats that nearly destroyed the American Mafia

Richard N Langlois

The Corporation and the Twentieth Century

A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial eraThe twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational transformation…

Jessica Gordon Nembhard

Collective Courage

"Chronicles the achievements and challenges of African American collective economic action and social entrepreneurship in the struggle for civil rights and economic equality"--Provided by publis…

William Grady

Redrawing the Western

A history of American Western genre comics and how they interacted with contemporaneous political and popular culture.

Tamara J. Walker

Beyond the Shores

**New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - An award-winning author charts the poignant global journeys of African Americans as she explores her own transatlantic family odyssey in Beyond the Shores,a …

John Stubbings

The Devil Is in It

The rich history of the acoustic guitar and its impact on the music world.

Eva Payne

Empire of Purity

"Between the 1870s and 1930s, American social reformers, working closely with the United States government, transformed sexual vice into an international political and humanitarian concern. As these …

Andrew Fialka,

Hope Never to See It

"Hope Never to See It illustrates two exceptional incidents of guerrilla violence in Missouri during the American Civil War: (1) a Union spy's two-week-long murder spree targeting civilians, and; (2)…

Arthur Ashe

A Hard Road to Glory, Volume 1 (1619-1918)

With a Foreword by Jeanne Moutoussamy-AsheAvailable once again for a new generation of readers, the first volume in Arthur Ashe's epic trilogy that chronicles the remarkable legacy of Black athletes in th…

Adam Chandler

99% Perspiration

An enlightening and entertaining interrogation of the myth of American self-reliance and the idea of hard work as destiny"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."…

The Liberal Heartland

"Over the last two decades, the political narrative of the "liberal coasts" and the "conservative heartland" has become something of a truism, leading many Democrats to write off …

Joe William Trotter Jr

From Enslavement to Covid-19

"During the COVID-19 pandemic, commentators opined that the high concentration of African Americans in dangerous and unsafe work and living environments exposed them to the virus at higher and more d…

Daniel K Williams

The Search for a Rational Faith

The Search for a Rational Faithpresents a 400-year narrative history of Anglo-American Protestant intellectual defenses of the Christian faith from the seventeenth century to the present. It challenges po…

Walter Hood, Grace Mitchell Tada,

Memorial To Our Ancestors

The first publication to document the International African American Museum's landscape design by Hood Design Studio, illuminating its mission and historic site The African Ancestors Garden is the first b…