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From the author of the acclaimed Invisible Generals comes the unsung history of the first Black US senators—two men who overcame fierce resistance to help America forge a multiracial democracy. In 1870—a mere five years after the Civil War ended—Hiram Revels became the first Black US...

During the Cold War, science and spy fiction moved from the cultural margins to reach new heights of popularity. Spies, Scientists, and Cold War Fictions explores how these genres didn’t just reflect the era – they shaped the diplomatic, military, and scientific realities of the day. Joshua...

A powerful hybrid memoir exploring the connections between father and son, addiction and disease, and what it really means to be a man, from an award-winning queer journalist Growing up in and around New York City, all Mat really knew of his father, Tofi, was that he loved to cook, he loved to...

A sweeping history of the African American struggle against police brutality, exposing how state violence underpins the capitalist economy and tracing the long resistance movement in pursuit of racial justice and freedom for all Rekia Boyd, Timothy Thomas, Jonathan Sanders, Breonna Taylor...

Behind the headline catastrophes of wildfires and floods lies California’s history of bending nature to human purpose. The immense waters of Tulare Lake were repurposed long ago for irrigation of industrial farms, leaving a dry expanse. But wet years conjure the ghost of the lake, and recent...

On a warm October night in 1905, a respected banker stepped out of his office and into the darkness. Hours later, he would take his own life, leaving behind a handwritten confession and its most devastating line: "Andrews has worked my ruin." By morning, his bank had collapsed, taking the life...

A blistering exposé of how anti-Black racism has influenced the most essential cornerstones of American life — from where we live and where we go to school to our opportunities to vote and our relationship with law enforcement— from the founder of the Who We Are Project and former director...

The first definitive history of Historically Black Theological Institutions (HBTIs) and their enduring influence on Black Christian leadership and culture. We can't understand the Black church and Black theology without understanding the influence of Historically Black Theological Institutions...

A much-loved Florida writer chronicles the quirky, touching, and thought-provoking stories of the Sunshine State today  In Welcome to Florida, award-winning investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author Craig Pittman introduces listeners to the people, creatures, places, and...

The definitive, groundbreaking biography of John Singer Sargent, the great American artist of the Gilded Age. John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) is one of the most famous American artists of all time, yet his personal life and character have remained elusive more than a century after his death...

Negotiations between the United States and the Taliban led to the 2020 Doha Agreement, which intended to end the American presence in the country and bring peace. Despite the failure of the Taliban to honor all aspects of the agreement, the Biden administration then determined to completely...

A memoir-in-vignettes recalling a poet's early years and memories from a literary household. More than a consecutive memoir, The Fair Fields presents a set of linked vignettes about what it was like to grow up in a white, liberal, literary household in Connecticut in the 1950s and early 1960s...

Pulitzer Prize Board citation to Ida B. Wells, as an early pioneer of investigative journalism and civil rights icon From a thinker who Maya Angelou has praised for shining “a brilliant light on the lives of women left in the shadow of history,” comes the definitive biography of Ida B...

The gentleman spy was a well-worn literary trope long before James Bond appeared on the printed page or silver screen. Yet, like many cliches, there is an element of truth to it. American espionage once relied on well-heeled amateurs to a very large degree. They possessed the necessary skill...

An innovative work that explores the relationship between the Black church, the Hammond organ, and the musicians that bring it to life. The Hammond organ has long distinguished the Black church. Masters of the instrument, often Blackqueer men, invented and advanced gospel music, pioneered new...

A critical biography contextualizing major events from Twain’s life as they pertain to his writing and modern legacy, from the bestselling author of the Edgar Allan Poe biography A Mystery of Mysteries. “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter...

A riveting, in-the-room account of the pivotal six months in 1941 that turned the tide of World War II, as Churchill and Roosevelt forged a crucial alliance and Hitler squandered his early advantage—from the New York Times bestselling author of Road to Surrender In the summer of 1941, Winston...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Countdown 1945 comes a sweeping account of America's WWII forces in their greatest and deadliest hour. After the success of D-Day and then the sweep across France, the allies are taking a pause in the days before Christmas, 1944, planning for their...

The author of The Hospital asks: Can one challenged city show the way to restore faith in government and reimagine the nation’s future? Chester, PA, a majority Black city just south of Philadelphia, is plagued by gun violence, decrepit infrastructure, a hospital at risk of closing, and a scary...

One woman's extraordinary personal journey in the United States military and her triumphant effort to honor her predecessors with the Congressional Gold Medal Looking back on her remarkable career, Retired Army Colonel Edna W. Cummings can justly say that "the odds ain't good, but good stuff...