Fall 2024

Americans—both black and white—need more books like Harvard Sitkoff’s moving account of the fierce “struggle for black equality” that consumed the nation from the late ’50s until the recent past. The opening chapter, “Up From Slavery” (recalling the title of …

This book is a massive compendium of historical data on people of African descent in the United States. This area of our history is among the least known and understood. Like a ball of tangled thread, it must be painstakingly …