This book examines the journalism of editor and publisher Lucile H. Bluford. Focusing on selections from her writing in the Kansas City Call from 1968 to 1983, it explores how she articulated a Black feminist standpoint and exposed injustices faced by African Americans and women that were otherwise ignored by mainstream media.
Reformers, Pre-Raphaelites, Positivists, and the Bloomsbury Group
This social, artistic, and cultural history examines three generations of the Lushington family and their relationships with prominent British figures and family members' roles in larger trends such as abolitionism, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and positivist philosophy.
This intellectual biography of Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov (1930-2008), the prominent Russian historian who was a leading scholar of US history and Russia-US relations, also examines broader social, cultural, and intellectual developments within the Americanist scholarly community in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia.
This book tells the fascinating story of a family's day-to-day life on an isolated ranch in early twentieth-century Wyoming. The interweaving of authors accounts of their experience on the Love ranch creates a unique memoir. Combining the perspectives of two genders and two generations, the book provides a portrait of ranch life in the west.
It would be hard to find a more satisfying hero than the young warrior Red Kangaroo, who by his mental and physical prowess became a chief of his tribe - the revered and powerful Red Chief of the Gunnedah district in northern New South Wales.
'Autogiro Pioneer' is an account of the life of Jack Richardson (1899-1987), based on his memoirs, edited by his son. In the 1930s he worked for Juan de la Cierva, the inventor of the Autogiro. He was the first person to obtain a commercial pilot's licence as an Autogiro pilot, and later the first fully-trained helicopter pilot in the British ......
The new biography of an iconic and controversial figure
As the acclaimed author of And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts became the country's most recognized voice on the HIV/AIDS epidemic. His success emerged from a relentless work ethic and strong belief in the power of journalism to help mainstream ......
At last available in a Spanish-language edition, Ilegal is the acclaimed memoir of José Ángel N., an undocumented immigrant who built a new life in the United States. Arriving in the US having only finished the ninth grade, N. embraced education, rising from ESL classes to graduate school before becoming a professional translator. Despite a ......
At last available in a Spanish-language edition, Ilegal is the acclaimed memoir of José Ángel N., an undocumented immigrant who built a new life in the United States. Arriving in the US having only finished the ninth grade, N. embraced education, rising from ESL classes to graduate school before becoming a professional translator. Despite a ......
