Cultural History Biographies

Black Boy: A Record of Youth and Childhood

By Richard Wright, Geoffrey Summerfield

Desert Dawn

By Waris Dirie

The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays

By Chinua Achebe

African's Life, 1745-1797: The Life and Times of Olaudah Equiano

By James Walvin (University of York, UK)

Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua

By Robin Law, Paul E. Lovejoy

City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran

By Ramita Navai

Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

By Howard W. French (Columbia University)

The Fleet Street Girls: The women who broke down the doors of the gentlemen's club

By Julie Welch

Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant

By Michael Vatikiotis

Before and After: the heartbreaking true stories of a notorious adoption scandal

By Lisa Wingate, Judy Christie

Wisdom of the Ages: Extraordinary People Ages 19-90

By Patricia M Hinds, Susan L Taylor

Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown

By Henry Box Brown, Richard Newman (Fellows and Research Officer, W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, Fellows and Research Officer, Harvard University.), Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

The Book Of Life

By Sojourner Truth

The Autobiography Of Martin Luther King, Jr

By Martin Luther King Jr

Tears of the Desert: One woman's true story of surviving the horrors of Darfur

By Halima Bashir

A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival

By Melissa Fleming

Muhammad

By Maxime Rodinson, Anne Carter

Daughters Of Arabia: Princess 2

By Jean Sasson

Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia

By Tracey Thorn

Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

By Barack Obama

The Girl in the Painted Caravan: Memories of a Romany Childhood

By Eva Petulengro

Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen

By Linda M. Heywood

Memoir

By Conor Cruise O'Brien

The Wife's Tale: A Personal History

By Aida Edemariam

The Exiled Collector

By Anne Sebba

Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America

By Firoozeh Dumas

Under a Broad Sky

By Ronald Blythe

The Great Migration in Historical Perspective: New Dimensions of Race, Class, and Gender

By Joe William Trotter, Jr.

The Aran Islands (Oxford Paperbacks)

By J. M. Synge, Robin Skelton

All in One Basket: Nest Eggs by

By Deborah Devonshire