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

Teachers, parents, & librarians, you’ll find the best read-aloud Black History Month books with this list of picture book ...

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 ...

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, ...

Both books benefit from earlier works published when biographies of individuals had to do the work of social history in general, filling in the people, institutions, dates and places around which ...