Staff Recommendations

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South - Paperback - January 7, 2020

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake Paperback – February 1, 2022
by Tiya Miles (Author)

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts paperback – June 1, 2021 by Rebecca Hall (Author) and Hugo Martinez (Illustrator)

Cooking for the Culture: Recipes and Stories from the New Orleans Streets to the Table Hardcover – February 7, 2023 by Toya Boudy

In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space Hardcover – January 7, 2025
by Irvin Weathersby Jr. (Author)

Black Creole Chronicles Paperback – May 23, 2023
by Mona Lisa Saloy (Author)

W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America Hardcover – October 23, 2018
by n/a The W.E.B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (Author), Whitney Battle-Baptiste (Editor), Britt Rusert (Editor)

Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking Hardcover - November 5, 2019 by Toni Tipton-Martin (Author) & Jerrelle Guy (Photographer)

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism Paperback – October 25, 2016
by Edward E. Baptist

The Message Hardcover – October 1, 2024
by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Author)

James: A Novel Hardcover – March 19, 2024
by Percival Everett (Author)

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America Hardcover – September 19, 2023
by Michael Harriot (Author)