River of Dark Dreams places the Cotton Kingdom at the center of worldwide webs of
exchange and exploitation that extended across oceans and drove an insatiable hunger for …

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award 2014 With this volume, Davis presents the
age of emancipation as a model for reform and as probably the greatest landmark of willed …

Despite recognition of the gender dimensions of climate change, there is little attention to
racism in climate justice perspectives. In response, this article advocates developing an …

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History Finalist for the National Book Award Finalist for the
Los Angeles Times Book Prize" Impressively researched and beautifully crafted… a brilliant …

When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims
than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that the Civil War had taken on a …

Long before the rise of New World slavery, West Africans were adept swimmers, divers,
canoe makers, and canoeists. They lived along riverbanks, near lakes, or close to the ocean …

How did Africans become'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells the
story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship …

University's Matas Medical Library, wrote an article that has shaped the historical
understanding of Dr. Samuel A. Cartwright. Though Cartwright was a prominent physician …

" One of the best history books I've read in the last few years."—Chris Hayes The Field of
Blood recounts the previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the …

Claudia Milian proposes that the economies of blackness, brownness, and dark brownness
summon a new grammar for Latino/a studies that she names “Latinities.” Milian argues that …