The enduring legacy of the nineteenth-century struggle for Black literacy in the American South
The first-ever biography of the ultra-radical thinker Robert Wedderburn, from his native Jamaica to metropole London, by an award-winning historian
A deep dive into the importance of daily communication and how we can harness its power to create a better life
An award-winning economic journalist on why the US dollar is positioned to maintain global primacy—and what that means for America and the world
The first comprehensive study of Jewish children’s flight from Nazi Germany to France—and their subsequent escape to America from the Vichy regime
The last work by “one of the most singular voices of twentieth-century French philosophy” (Critical Inquiry) on the complexities of love in public and private life
From Homer’s epics to mainstream news, stories have lives of their own—and humans may not always control the narratives we create
At the heart of the influential Bloomsbury Group, Vanessa Bell was one of the most radical artists working in Britain in the first decades of the twentieth century
An ambitious look at how the twentieth century’s great powers devised their military strategies and what their implications mean for military competition between the United States and China
The story of Abraham, the first Jew, portrayed as two lives lived by one person, paralleling the contradictions in Judaism throughout its history
A first-of-its-kind handbook outlining best practices and common pitfalls for students and textual scholars interested in beginning to work with manuscripts
A sweeping history of the violence perpetrated by governments committed to extreme forms of secularism in the twentieth century