This one-volume, comprehensive overview of African American history brings together original essays by some of the foremost authorities in the field. Arranged b

A director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard presents a sumptuously illustrated chronicle of more than 500 years of African-American history that foc

Chronicles five hundred years of African-American history from the origins of slavery on the African continent through Barack Obama's second presidential term,

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Mark Obmascik has deftly rescued an important story from the margins of our history—and from our country’s most forbidding frontier.

This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession caused by the Middle Passage. The book analyzes the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance, a