Cultural History Biographies

Mister Good Times: The enthralling life story of a legendary DJ

By Norman Jay

Marcus Garvey: Black Nationalist Leader

By Mary Lawler

Long Walk To Freedom

By Mandela, Nelson

My Place: Autobiography

By Morgan, Sally

The Snow Leopard

By Peter Matthiessen

Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel

By Edwin Frank

Black Popular Culture: A Project by Michelle Wallace

By Gina Dent

The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood

By Eugenie Fraser

Strong in the Rain: Surviving Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

By Lucy Birmingham, David McNeill

Martin's Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

By Clayborne Carson

My Family, A Symphony: A Memoir of Global Adoption

By Aaron Eske

Histories of Social Studies and Race: 1865-2000

By Christine Woyshner, Chara Haeussler Bohan

Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South

By Catherine Fosl

A Katherine Mansfield Chronology

By R. Norburn

A Handbook of Leisure Studies

By C. Rojek, S. Shaw, A. Veal

Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance

By Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Robert Farris Thompson, Ananya Chatterjea

A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons

By Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, Annette Gordon-reed

Muhammad

By Maxime Rodinson, Anne Carter

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 Wife's Tale: A Personal History

By Aida Edemariam

Memoir

By Conor Cruise O'Brien

Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen

By Linda M. Heywood

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

By Eva Petulengro

Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

By Barack Obama

Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia

By Tracey Thorn

Daughters Of Arabia: Princess 2

By Jean Sasson

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

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

By Lisa Wingate, Judy Christie