Civil Rights
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The Crimson and Gold: Football and Integration in Athens, Georgia
$25.95 Add to cartThe Crimson and Gold is a comprehensive narrative detailing the struggle for integration in Athens, Georgia, in the context of highly competitive football as experienced by athletes, their fellow stud
- Author: Clegg, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0820366986
- Language: English
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When Mayor Doug Wilder Ruled Richmond: Strong-Arm Politics in Virginia’s Capital City
$35.95 Add to cartOur nation’s first elected Black governor, L. Douglas Wilder, returned to public service in 2005 as the first popularly elected mayor of Richmond, Virginia, in sixty years. Despite his landslide elect
- Author: Norman, Linwood
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1962416216
- Language: English
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Freedom: An Unruly History
$22.95 Add to cartWinner of the PROSE Award
“Ambitious and impressive…At a time when the very survival of both freedom and democracy seems uncertain, books like this are more i
An NRC Handelsblad Best Book of the Year- Author: de Dijn, Annelien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0674278631
- Language: English
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Necessary Illusions
$19.99 Add to cartIn his national bestselling 1988 CBC Massey Lectures, Noam Chomsky inquires into the nature of the media in a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force and thus must be subj… [more below]
- Series: Massey Lectures
- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 02 1995
- ISBN10: 0887845746
- Language: English
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Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass
$18.99 Read moreSusan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass chat over tea about their efforts to win rights for women and African Americans.
Some people had rights, while others had none.Why shouldn’t they have them, too?… [more below]
- Author: Robbins, Dean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 545399963
- Language: English
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Stella by Starlight
$19.99 Read moreSharon M. Draper presents “storytelling at its finest” (School Library Journal, starred review) in this New York Times bestselling Depression-era novel about a young girl who must learn to be brave in… [more below]
- Author: Draper, Sharon M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1442494972
- Language: English
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Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties
$32.99 Add to cartFrom the speechwriter and top adviser to presidents Kennedy and Johnson: A behind-the-scenes history of the most momentous decade in American politics.
Richard N. Goodwin entered public service in 19- Author: Goodwin, Richard N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 828
- Publish Date: September 30 2014
- ISBN10: 1497676576
- Language: English
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Layers of Truth: A Novel Set During the Turbulent 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project
$24.95 Add to cartIn the spring of 1964, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is recruiting white college students to teach in Freedom Schools and encourage Blacks to register to vote in the racial hotb
- Author: Turner, Rosalie T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1632935376
- Language: English
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The Terror Factory: Tenth Anniversary Edition
$18.95 Read more“Compelling, shocking, and gritty with intrigue.”–Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A real eye-opener that questions how well the country’s security is being protected.”–Kirkus (starred review)
“I
- Author: Aaronson, Trevor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1632461404
- Language: English
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Manimal Woe
$21.00 Add to cartFanny Howe’s Manimal Woe maps the intersection between history and family as few books have. Through poetry, prose, and primary sources, Howe invites us on a journey with the spirit of her father, Civ
- Author: Howe, Fanny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: September 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1734641657
- Language: English
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We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China’s Surveillance State
$21.99 Add to cartNamed a Notable Work of Nonfiction of 2020 by the Washington Post
As heard on NPR’s Fresh Air, We Have Been Harmonized, by award-winning correspondent Kai Strittmatter, offers a groundbreaking look, ba
- Author: Strittmatter, Kai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0063027305
- Language: English
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Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice
$24.95 Add to cart2022 High Plains Book Award Winner for First Book
2022 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize Short List
2022 Eric Hoffer Award Honorable Mention in Culture
2022 IPPY Gold Medal in Environment/Ecology
2022… [more below]- Author: Todrys, Katherine Wiltenburg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496222660
- Language: English
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Identity Capitalists: The Powerful Insiders Who Exploit Diversity to Maintain Inequality
$28.00 Add to cartNancy Leong reveals how powerful people and institutions use diversity to their own advantage and how the rest of us can respond–and do better.
Why do people accused of racism defend themselves by po
- Author: Leong, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1503610136
- Language: English
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American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795
$17.99 Read moreNew attention from historians and journalists is raising pointed questions about the founding period: was the American revolution waged to preserve slavery, and was the Constitution a pact with slaver
- Author: Larson, Edward J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 132407521X
- Language: English
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Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought, Expanded Edition
$31.67 Add to cart“A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism; it … [more below]
- Author: Rauch, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: January 23 2014
- ISBN10: 022614593X
- Language: English
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Howard Zinn’s Southern Diary: Sit-Ins, Civil Rights, and Black Women’s Student Activism
$26.95 Add to cartIn the 1960s, students of Spelman College, a black liberal arts college for women, were drawn into historic civil rights protests occurring across Atlanta, leading to the arrest of some for participat
- Author: Cohen, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0820353280
- Language: English
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Murder at Broad River Bridge: The Slaying of Lemuel Penn by the Ku Klux Klan
$24.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1981, Murder at the Broad River Bridge recounts the stunning details of the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Lemuel Penn by the Ku Klux Klan on a back-country Georgia road in 1964, nine
- Author: Shipp, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 15 2017
- ISBN10: 082035161X
- Language: English
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No Place for a Woman: The Struggle for Suffrage in the Wild West
$31.58 Add to cartNo Place for a Woman explores the history of the fight for women’s rights in the West, examining the conditions that prevailed during the vast migration of pioneers looking for free land and opportuni… [more below]
- Author: Enss, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493072412
- Language: English
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Righteous Troublemakers: Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America
$18.99 Read moreBestselling author Reverend Al Sharpton brings to light the stories of the unsung heroes of the Civil Rights movement, drawing on his unique perspective in the history of the fight for social justice
- Author: Sharpton, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 1335449647
- Language: English
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Breached!: Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It
$33.99 Add to cartA novel account of how the law contributes to the insecurity of our data and a bold way to rethink it.
Digital connections permeate our lives-and so do data breaches. Given that we must be online for … [more below]- Author: Solove, Daniel J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0190940557
- Language: English
