"Less a legal history and more an examination of gender, race, crime, and punishment in the antebellum era, Nunley's book measures the limits and possibilities of justice for enslaved women accused of attempting to or succeeding in committing grave crimes against their owners. Immersing herself in hundreds of court cases, executive orders, transportation records of the state treasury, and newspapers from a single state - Virginia - Tamika Nunley has...

'Millions Flee! End of the World!' From a Manhattan skyscraper, Ralph Burton surveys the emptiness declared by that newspaper headline. Nuclear doomsday has come. Ralph is sure he is the last person alive. Then, a woman appears, and the two form a cautious friendship that's threatened when a third survivor arrives. Unlike other post-apocalyptic thrillers, there are no external monsters to battle here. Instead, the monsters (fear, intolerance, jealousy)...

"When thirteen-year-old Billie Sims learns that the Freedom Riders, a civil rights group protesting segregation on buses in the summer of 1961, will be traveling through Anniston, Alabama, she thinks change could be coming to her stubborn town. But what starts as angry grumbles soon turns to brutality, and Billie is forced to reconsider her own views"--

Jacoby relates the tale of William Ellis, who was born into slavery on a cotton plantation in rural Texas just before the end of America's Civil War, and his transition into Guillermo Eliseo, a wealthy broker, statesman, and politician from Mexico. Ellis/Eliseo's crossing of the color line in an era of racial tension is contrasted with Mexico's post-Independence acceptance of the mixing of ethnic groups. Ellis/Eliseo's business acumen and gift with...

Learn about the bomb blast that rocked the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church on Sunday morning, September 15, 1963, killing four young girls.

Twelve-year-old Trip Westbrook lives in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964 and discovers the underlying racism in his family and neighborhood when he invites his maid's son Dee to play football in the yard.