Cultural History Biographies

Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen

By Christopher McDougall

From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice

By Thomas F. Jackson

Miss Muriel Matters: The fearless suffragist who fought for equality

By Robert Wainwright (Author)

It Takes Two: A History of the Couples Who Dared to be Different

By Cathy Newman

Composition in Black and White

By Kathryn M. Talalay

Beyond Uhura

By Michelle Nichols

March: Book One

By John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell

Hellfire And Herring: A childhood remembered

By Mr Christopher Rush

Myself When I am Real

By Gene Santoro

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

By Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard University)

Ronnie

By Ronnie Drew

Gypsy Bride: One girl's true story of falling in love with a gypsy boy

By Sam Skye Lee

Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Theology of Resistance

By Rufus Burrow, Jr.

John Aubrey: My Own Life

By Ruth Scurr

Banjo: The story of the man who wrote Waltzing Matilda

By Paul Terry

Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

By Stephen Greenblatt

Alfred B. Xuma: African, American, South African

By Steven Gish (Assistant Professor of History, Auburn University, Montgomery, USA)

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

By Bill Bryson

Elizabethan Society: High and Low Life, 1558-1603

By Mr Derek Wilson

Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir

By Stanley Tookie Williams, Tavis Smiley, Barbara Becnel

Understanding Ethiopia: Geology and Scenery

By Frances M. Williams

Michael Collins: The Lost Leader

By Margery Forester

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

By Joan Didion

Lady Gregory: An Irish Life

By Judith Hill

The Poetry of Seamus Heaney

By Elmer Kennedy-Andrews

The Night Before Christmas

By Alice Taylor, Terry Myler

Martin Luther King

By Hodgson, Godfrey

Sophia's Story

By Susan McKay

I've Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation

By Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Colored People: A Memoir

By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.