…career, she became renowned for her prolific and varied body of work, which included several novels of Appalachian life, groundbreaking environmentalist writings, and essays of civil-rights advocacy. Her novels, especially…
…train. Once there, though, he fell into a morass of ideological politics almost as dangerous as the war itself—communists loyal to Stalin versus anarchists loyal to no one. This internal…
…made them ideal television actors. In many ways, their political and cultural influence was shaped by the growth of television. Both men used it to reach their audience: Malcolm appealed…
…Ward: My goal with the book’s structure was to capture and connect three moments of local violence and national change, and to devote roughly equal attention to three important eras…
The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family is more than the biography of entertainment trailblazer and civil-rights icon Lena Horne. Gail Lumet Buckley,…
…merciless sun.” Smith also illustrates the hardships for women as they try to do all their normal household chores in wagons and on the ground. But for Abigail there are…
