A vivid portrait collection of past and present Americans speaking truth to power The first volume of Robert Shetterly's Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait series, Portraits of Racial Justice takes a multimedia, interdisciplinary approach, blending art and history with today's issues concerning social, environmental, and economic fairness. ......
Carleton Beals and the Progressive Challenge to U.S. Policy in Latin Ame
American journalist Carleton Beals's combative reporting of U.S. intervention in Latin America from Mexico to Cuba in the 20th century won him millions of readers. The Rebel Scribe tells his story in a way that sheds new light on Western Hemisphere history while also showing how probing journalism drives change.
Charles H. Thompson on Desegregation, Democracy, and Education captures the evolving struggle for civil rights from the perspective of Charles H. Thompson, an education insider, brilliant scholar-activist, and arguably the leading dean in African American higher education between 1938 and 1963.
A True Story of Splendour, Tragedy, Humour and Hope
Lala plays with her diamond ring, mesmerized as always by the distant world it conjures for her and the jewel's extraordinary trajectory from Tsarist Russia to twenty-first-century England. An unexpected invitation has arrived and, at last, she will be able to visit Lentvaris, her paternal grandmother's ancestral home, a splendid East European ......
Eugene England championed an optimistic Mormon faith open to liberalizing ideas from American culture. At the same time, he remained devoted to a conservative Mormonism that he saw as a vehicle for progress even as it narrowed the range of acceptable belief.Kristine L. Haglund views England's writing through the tensions produced by his ......
True Stories of Mobster Molls, Violent Vixens, and Murderous Matriarchs
In Pretty Evil Pennsylvania, historical true crime author Stephanie Hoover recounts the crimes committed by nine of the Keystone State's most violent female criminals from the 1850s through the 1930s.
This trenchant diary provides a rare glimpse into the daily life of French and foreign-born Jewish refugees under the Vichy regime during WWII. Lucien Dreyfus offers readers a unique philosophical and moral reflection on the Holocaust as it was unfolding in France up until he and his wife were deported and murdered in Auschwitz in late 1943.
This is an open and frank account of how someone from a railway family in a small East Midlands town went on to become a
Cabinet Minister serving in the Ministry of Defence as Britain conducted difficult and demanding operations in Sierra Leone,
Afghanistan and Iraq. It sets out his political career from his earliest days knocking on doors for the ......