Feb 20, 2009
What's on Your Nightstand, Juliet Walker?
History Professor Juliet E.K. Walker knows first-hand the power of a book to shape history. Earlier this year,…
Jan 16, 2009
Historian Traces Emergence of Black Identity in America
During the transatlantic slave trade an estimated 20 million people from the continent of Africa were transported to North…
Jan 15, 2009
A Guided History of the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama
January 19 marks the celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr., a remembrance of the life and legacy of a…
Dec 17, 2008
Books that Changed America
Like no other mass medium, books have the ability to crystallize a point in history or serve as a…
Nov 20, 2008
Books Offer New Perspectives on American Indian Identity
November is a time of year when popular culture often revisits stereotypes about American Indians via mythologized depictions of the…