Raps of Resistance: How Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole Reignited a Hip-Hop Tradition
By Jeremy C. McCool and Earl Hopkins
A persuasive case for the primacy of two singular artists.
We came, we read, we gushed.
A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South
By Melvin Patrick Ely
The boundaries between the enslaved and the free were blurry but never invisible.
Brooding Over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women’s Lethal Resistance
By Nikki M. Taylor
A scorching, stunning look at private revolts against bondage.
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Ravage & Son: A Novel
By Jerome Charyn
Early-1900s Manhattan comes alive in this teeming, overstuffed tale.
The Case of the Married Woman
By Antonia Fraser
A discarded wife demands equal protection under the law.
Like a Rolling Stone
By Jann S. Wenner
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A rock-journalism kingmaker sums it all up.
Mobility: A Novel
By Lydia Kiesling
Big Oil may have set our planet on fire, but we all fuel the flames.
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Before the Gilded Age: W.W. Corcoran and the Rise of American Capital and Culture
By Mark L. Goldstein
Meet the most noteworthy financier you’ve never heard of.
