This is a fast-paced, highly readable account of the first year of the Korean Wara time which was...

In May 1905 Robert S. Abbott started publishing the Chicago Defender. The paper attacked racial i...

The writer Alfred Steinberg is well known for hisbiographies of Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. John...

This book was originally published in 1943 with the title New World A-Coming: Inside Black Americ...

The date was May 17, 1954. One Supreme Court justice called it ';a day that will live in glory.' ...

Born in Cardiff, Wales, Mark Davies graduated from Cambridge University, England, with a degree i...

The first African-American to serve on the United States Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall was the...

One of those who watched and was watched in the turbulent summer of 1964 was Chicago Daily News r...

I couldnt hear a sound, either from the corridor and offices beyond the door or from the sleeping...

Who, or what, was the real enemy in Vietnam? The ever-elusive, jungle-wise Viet Cong and their NV...

This is a history of the American Negro, whose ancestors arrived at Jamestown a year before the a...