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How universities have become increasingly contentious since the Sixties, from the viewpoint of a former Princeton provost and Harvard presidentFrom his days at Princeton University as a member of the...
An Early Eighteenth-Century Journey into and out of Slavery
Lindsay O'Neill
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512827200
Pub Date: February 2025
Format: Hardcover
200 Pages
A fascinating account of two eighteenth-century princes from East Africa, their travels, and their encounters with the British Empire and slaveryIn 1716 two princes from Mpfumo—what is today Maputo,...
The first collection of essays published on trailblazing nineteenth-century Black feminist, activist, journal, and educator, Mary Ann Shadd CaryMary Ann Shadd Cary (1823–1893) was a trailblazing Black...
The life and times of extraordinary Philadelphia art collector Albert C. BarnesPhiladelphia art collector Albert C. Barnes (1872–1951) is renowned today for collecting many of the world’s most important...
The ingenious ways dilemmas are addressed in non-Western traditionsDilemmas explores some of the most pressing existential problems of our times, from climate change, political conflict, and social...
How Benjamin Franklin’s life and legacy have been used, misused, interpreted, and reinterpreted throughout American history and popular cultureA teenage runaway whose face later appeared on the one-hundred-dollar...
The first comprehensive biography of Philadelphia’s Henry C. Lea (1825–1909): historian, publisher, political activist, and reformerWriting in 1868, the Philadelphia publisher-cum-historian Henry...
An ethnographic exploration of anthropological failure through the Mapuche archetypes of witch, clown, and usurperHow do we learn what failure looks like? During the years anthropologist Magnus Course...
Barbara Jordan’s Life and Legacy in Black Politics
Mary Ellen Curtin
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512825800
Pub Date: September 2024
Format: Hardcover
480 Pages
An important new biography of Barbara Jordan, the first Black woman from the South to serve in CongressDuring her keynote speech at the 1976 Democratic Party convention, Barbara Jordan of Texas stood...
Public College Students Expose the Hidden Inequalities of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Edited by Joseph Entin and Jeanne Theoharis
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512826371
Pub Date: August 2024
Format: Paperback
320 Pages
Firsthand accounts of COVID-19’s devastating effects on working-class communities of colorThe first months of the COVID-19 pandemic were filled with talk of heroes, the frontline workers who kept...
