The Black History of the White House, Paperback

Reducere. The Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House as experienced by A...

The complete history of the public house, from eighteenth-century coaching inns to twenty-first century wine barsIllustrations: Illustrations, blac...

DescriptionBorn in rural Kentucky, Mickey Hess grew up listening to the militant rap of Public Enemy while living in a place where the state song s...

Reducere. New York Times Bestseller (Humor)"The book everyone is laughing about "--Joe Scarborough, Morning JoeFor two centuries, presidents hoping to secure...

Reducere. On November 23, 1887, white vigilantes gunned down unarmed black laborers and their families during a spree lasting more than two hours. The violen...

The War of 1812 is etched into American memory with the burning of the Capitol and the White House by British forces, The Star-Spangled Banner, and...

Reducere. In this revealing social history, one remarkable White House dinner shines a powerful light on race, politics, and the lives and legacies of Theodo...

Reducere. DescriptionAs a Global Market Research Analyst for Prudential, Rich led the first African American Financial Experience Study. She founded The Weal...

Reducere. It was a dynasty with more wealth, passion, and power than the houses of Windsor, Kennedy, and Rockefeller combined. It shaped all of Europe and co...

DescriptionThe golden days of the film poster are often remembered in print and at the auction house but the newsprint adverts for film are a vanis...

Reducere. Abraham H. Galloway (1837-1870) was a fiery young slave rebel, radical abolitionist, and Union spy who rose out of bondage to become one of the mos...

Reducere. In this outstanding cultural biography, the author of the New York Times bestseller A Slave in the White House chronicles a critical yet overlooked...

Reducere. At the turn of the nineteenth century, James Vann, a Cherokee chief and entrepreneur, established Diamond Hill in Georgia, the most famous plantati...

Reducere. A story of one family's love and courage in the Jim Crow-era Deep South In defiance of his middle-class landowning family, a young white man named ...

This book advances a novel approach to a familiar eighteenth-century building type: the brick terraced house. Focusing on issues of design and arch...

Reducere. "Alex Heard has crafted a memorable narrative of a civil rights case that deserves a larger place in American memory." --Jon Meacham In this grippi...

1986 was a pivotal year in South African history. It was the year of the vigilante, the year of the necklace - but also the year the talking began....

Reducere. Throughout his career, Eduardo Galeano has turned our understanding of history and reality on its head. Isabelle Allende said his works "invade the...

Reducere. Between 1890 and 1915, a predominately African American state convict crew built Clemson University on John C. Calhoun's Fort Hill Plantation in up...

Reducere. The second book in the treasured Little House series, Farmer Boy is Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved story of how her husband, Almanzo, grew up as a ...

Reducere. Kira Franklin, a black newspaper reporter in Southwest Virginia in 1993, begins to question her own culture when she pursues a story on a local Che...

Reducere. A Virginia Kelly Mystery, Book 2 - By night - the bars, the music, the sexual energy. By day - the beaches, the bay ... basking in the sun and the ...

Reducere. THE BOOK OF KHALLID chronicles the life and times of Khallid Abdul Muhammad, a notorious legend in the Black activist movement, and a militant prop...

Reducere. Bullets in The Fire - The Saga of New York RedA sexually liberated young woman, Erma Louise Hill, comes of age during the depression under difficul...

A Timely Biography of the First Female Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris is known as a tough prosecutor. She rose to fame as Califo...

Reducere. Spencer Polk was born of an African-Indian slave woman known as Sally, and her master, Taylor Polk, a descendant of one of America's first families...

Reducere. They were black and white, young and old, men and women. In the spring and summer of 1961, they put their lives on the line, riding buses through t...

Reducere. Explore one of the most powerful and highest-ranking female figures in American history with this biography of Vice President Kamala Harris in this...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Louise ErdrichIllustrator: Louise ErdrichIn this award-winning sequel to Chickadee, acclaimed author Louise Erdrich continu...

Reducere. Determination. Challenges met and triumphed over.Talent in the heart and soul of her words. And the drive to make history from a young woman who is...

Now in paperback--the intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States, featuring a new introduction by Miche...

Description"A signal event in the history of the music." -- Ted Gioia, author of The Delta BluesMusicologist and writer Samuel Charters (1929-2015)...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John Oliphant"As Mercury dwelleth near the Sun, so I abide in the heart of my Lord. My feet run upon His errands and by my ...

Reducere. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was, for much of her life, the most famous woman in the world. First as the chic, sophisticated wife of President John F...

Reducere. Discover the life of Michelle Obama--a story about working for changeMichelle Obama is one of the most important women in American history. Before ...

Reducere. "Cotton obsessed, Negro obsessed, " Rupert Vance called it in 1935. "Nowhere but in the Mississippi Delta, " he said, "are antebellum conditions so...

Reducere. Bestselling and award-winning author, Sharon G. Flake, delivers a mystery set in the 1950s that eerily blends history, race, culture, and family. O...