Black women have been at the crux of American culture for nearly two centuries. Our resilience, resistance, intelligence, grace.

David G. Gitkov has invited readers on a journey spanning continents, seas, and decades in A Long, Long Watch: Volume II: The ...

I love introducing kids to ordinary people who did amazing things by reading picture book biographies for kids. Don't you?

Both books benefit from earlier works published when biographies of individuals had to do the work of social history in ...

Discover the darker, more tormented side of the artists who created disturbing masterpieces. We will discuss not their works, but the troubled lives of Caravaggio, Goya, Munch, Dalí and other masters, ...

You’ll find the first biography of Henry VIII’s court fool William Somer; eye-opening explorations of Africa’s struggle for its art; and a one-of-a-kind history of Chaucer’s most popular and ...