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An illuminating portrait of five Black woman artists and the New York nightclub that helped inspire the civil rights movement. Before they became household names, Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry, Abbey Lincoln, Miriam Makeba, and Nina Simone needed a place to practice and perform. That place...

For fans of the beloved HBO series The Gilded Age, a definitive volume on life and thought in America during the era—now reissued with a beautiful new cover. With Season 3 of the hit Julian Fellowes HBO series The Gilded Age breaking records in summer 2025 with its highest ratings ever—and...

“Brian Kilmeade provides us with a variation of Profiles in Courage focused on our Founders. It ranges from John Adams, who made the controversial decision to legally represent British soldiers who were part of the Boston Massacre, to his son John Quincy Adams, who defends the enslaved...

Read by award-winning actress Kate Mulgrew "What an incredible life of triumph and tragedy, faith, and love." — Anderson Cooper, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Vanderbilt A vivid, intimate biography of American icon Ethel Kennedy by her daughter Kerry Kennedy, told through her...

A sweeping history of America during the tumultuous decades between the ends of World War I and World War II, when a mainly rural, isolationist republic was transformed into a nuclear superpower and the leader of the free world. Through the prosperous 1920s and its culture wars to the Great...

From New York Times bestselling author David Treuer comes The Savage Mind, a groundbreaking and intimate reckoning with Turtle Island's history, the violence of the frontier, and finding hope in the dark. Growing up on the Leech Lake reservation in Minnesota, the son of a Holocaust survivor and...

Native comedian Joey Clift takes you on a hilarious journey to discover the largest population you don't know in this sharp debut for fans of Michael Harriot and Phoebe Robinson. Foreword by Shane Hawk, writer and co-editor of Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology! Put...

Silas John Edwards—a charismatic Apache medicine man—was known as a controversial figure on Apache reservations in Arizona and New Mexico, where white authorities were determined to maintain control over reservation life. When his wife, Margaret, was brutally murdered in 1933, Silas John was tried and convicted, receiving a sentence of life in prison. The key piece of evidence against Silas John was a rock found near Margaret's body, scratched with his initials, “S. J. E."

Expert journalist and editor-in-chief of Caracas Chronicles Rafael Osío Cabrices offers a riveting, rigorous, and deeply personal account of the modern history of his country, from the rise of Chávez and the slow erosion of democracy, to the U.S. invasion and capture of Maduro. In this...

From bestselling author Celeste Headlee, an urgent and eye-opening story of the women who risked everything to ensure a generation of Black Americans had the right to read. This program is read by the author. In the waning days of the antebellum South, millions of African Americans were suddenly...

Why did one of our greatest presidents ruthlessly persecute one of the richest men in America? By any measure, Franklin D. Roosevelt is one our most admired presidents. But behind the beaming smile and folksy fireside chats was a ruthless politician willing to use the massive powers of the...

The founder and CEO of the Fearless Fund shares the remarkable story of how she defended her life’s work in a landmark legal battle, drawing lessons from the civil rights movement and offering a playbook to help entrepreneurs, business leaders, and policymakers expand opportunity and build...

A riveting, kaleidoscopic portrait of the American compulsion toward cruelty and our power to subvert it from an award-winning contributor to The Guardian and The New York Times. In How to Look Away, Daniel Peña explores how fringe elements of his Texas childhood—AM radio, conspiracy theories...

National Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, reveals how California’s Gold Rush forged the modern United States—and lit the long fuse to civil war In January 1848, a carpenter spotted flecks of gold in a shallow...

A searing exploration of American violence, interweaving memoir, history, and reportage to reveal the wound at the heart of our nation—and to offer hope that the country, and we, might be healed. In the wake of George Floyd’s murder and the January 6 insurrection, as America seemed to be...

From the co-host of NPR’s All Things Considered and NPR’s Senior Editor of Religion and Spirituality, a deeply reported, revelatory biography of Robert Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, that offers rare and exciting new insight into the life and times of the man who would come to lead the...

"An unflinching and visionary work that recovers the central role of children in the making of racial violence.”—Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow A powerful, unsettling, and unflinching exploration that forces readers to confront lynching as a devastating legacy of white...

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Der Traum vom Weltraum ist zurück. Menschen sehnen sich nach einer Zukunft auf dem Mars, Milliardäre schicken Raketen ins All, Künstliche Intelligenz verspricht die nächste Stufe der Evolution. Doch dieses Fieber, das uns heute antreibt, hat eine Geschichte – sie beginnt im Schatten des...

Grounded in meticulous research and written with an uncanny understanding of the military and of American Indian culture, Blake offers soulful profiles of the participants, both Indian and cavalry. Indian Yell is filled with accounts of harrowing sacrifice and tragic misdeeds of real people...