In 1739 Bordeaux's Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest seeking answers to a pressing ...

In 1739 Bordeaux's Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest seeking answers to a pressing ...

“Daylight Come takes us to places no biography in recent memory has . . . This book fills the hea...

From the New York Times’s former chief classical music critic, a tribute to one of the great sing...

Selections from the Prose Writings - Ed. with notes and an introd. by Lewis E. Gates is an unchan...

A record of the Blakes of Somersetshire: - Especially in the line of William Blake, of Dorchester...

A New York Times Notable Book • Shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Society's Christian Gauss Awar...

With a New Introduction and Notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Richard J. EllisA fascinating fus...

Finding Oprah's Roots will not only endow readers with a new appreciation for the key contributio...

Who are we, and where do we come from? The fundamental drive to answer these questions is at the ...

For the first time in a deluxe collector's boxed set, the definitive edition of the writings of t...

In a highly original and historic celebration of black Americans and their contributions to cultu...

The New Annotated African American Folktales revolutionises the canon like no other volume. Henry...

The distinguished scholar examines the origins and history of African-American ancestry as he pro...

In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people...

Prominent African American scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., traced Oprah's roots and shares the le...

Introduced by Maya Angelou, the inspiring sermon-poems of James Weldon Johnson James Weldon Johns...

A unique and comprehensive collection of 26 literary essays that provides real evidence of the ri...

In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people...

The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers s now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with ...

The distinguished scholar examines the origins and history of African-American ancestry as he pro...

A definitive edition of the landmark book that forever changed our understanding of the Civil War...

A companion to the PBS series And Still I Rise, hosted and produced by the preeminent harvard sch...

A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American w...

In a coming-of-age story as enchantingly vivid and ribald as anything Mark Twain or Zora Neale Hu...

This is a story about America during and after Reconstruction, one of history's most pivotal and ...

'Companion book to the Emmy Award-winning series as seen on Public TV'--Cover.

A seminal volume of four classic slavenarratives, including Narrative of the Life of Frederick Do...

The only children's book ever written and illustrated by the legendary American artist, this is t...

Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . . . In our curre...

The official movie tie-in edition to the winner of the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture, starr...

Multiple award-winning author Gates takes young readers on a journey through America's past and o...

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM: Oprah Daily, Business Insider, Marie Claire, The Seattle Times, Lit...

A collection of essential writings from the iconic foremother of Black women's intellectual histo...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Stony the Road and one of our most important voices...

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM: Oprah Daily, Business Insider, Marie Claire, The Seattle Times, Lit...

The most influential work by “the father of Black history”, reflecting the long-standing traditio...

The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art is the first comprehensive survey of t...

The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art is the first comprehensive survey of t...

Host of PBS's Finding Your Roots and famed Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. examines Afri...

A foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefi...

'Any serious effort to understand how the Black civil rights generation found role models, vision...

A foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefi...

Thought to be the first novel written by a Black female slave in the 1850's, this work is both a ...

A New York Times Notable Book“Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an ...

An authoritative anthology tracing the history of one of the most important concepts Black people...

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography • A Washington Post Notable Book...

The Image of the European in African Art-a companion to The Image of the Black in Western Art ser...