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This collective study of the James siblings—Alice, William, and Henry—lights up their shared intellectual project: showing how minds meet in a world teeming with possibilities and risks. Philosophical Siblings offers a fresh way of thinking about literary encounters, one that approaches even the most iconic texts with serious lightness.

The first scholarly collection devoted to Shirley Graham Du Bois, this volume examines how African and African American culture infused her artistry as a musician, dramatist, editor, and author and analyzes how her creative intellect shaped the evolution of her radical political commitments across the global Black freedom struggle.

In this first biography of Elihu Palmer, Kirsten Fischer depicts a once notorious freethinker who countered Christianity with the idea of an interconnected universe infused with a divine life force. Denounced as "heretical," Palmer's speeches and writings shaped the contest over freedom of religion and of speech in the new United States.

Former Princeton provost and Harvard president Neil L. Rudenstine demonstrates that universities have become “contentious” institutions—by the anti-Vietnam student protests in the Sixties, by their extensive decentralization in the following decades, and by the increasingly diverse social composition of students and faculty today.

The Two Princes of Mpfumo brings to life East African individuals caught up in the eighteenth-century slave trade—known in the historical record as Prince James and Prince John—and shows how their stories reveal an emerging global British empire, one in which competing organizations and interests created a chaotic situation on the ground.

Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823–1893) was a trailblazing Black feminist, activist, journalist, and educator and the first Black woman to edit a newspaper, the Provincial Freeman, in North America. Insensible of Boundaries is the first collection of essays dedicated to Shadd Cary’s cultural significance and intellectual contributions.

The House of Barnes chronicles the life and times of extraordinary art collector Albert C. Barnes and the continued endurance of the Barnes Foundation long after the death of its founder, including the controversial events surrounding the Foundation’s move to Philadelphia. Includes full-color reproductions of masterpieces from the collection.

Pushing back against the tendency to think of dilemmas as clear-cut binary choices, anthropologist Michael Jackson shows us the ingenious ways dilemmas are addressed in non-Western traditions, as well as how they are reimagined and circumvented in a variety of contemporary settings.