A compilation and analysis of the many blues and gospel songs written about the inspirational president

In a new printing, a pseudo-slave narrative published in 1856 to impel the cause of abolition

This book traces the Students for a Democratic Society in their relation to other movements and demonstrates that the New Left’s dissolution flowed directly from SDS’s failure to break with traditional American notions of race, sex, and empire.

A history of weaponry used to defend, attack, suppress, and stalk over the centuries

The first collection of interviews with the Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author of Kindred, Parable of the Sower, Fledgling, and Bloodchild

Collected interviews with the Canadian director of such acclaimed films as The Sweet Hereafter, Felicia’s Journey, and Exotica

A richly illustrated history of over one hundred sacred structures lost to disaster, demolition, or abandonment

An extended meditation on a lively slip of river wilderness abutting the Mississippi River

A biography of the religious and deeply closeted rival to Rudolph Valentino

The story of Shearwater Pottery and the Anderson family’s artful enterprise

How a group of industry outsiders became popular music sensations

A comprehensive study of the writings of a pivotal Caribbean intellectual

A critical study of the writings and thought of the American literary genius and his blues and jazz derived “vernacular” aesthetic

A career-spanning examination of a masterful fiction writer’s output

The historic account of how a determined white postal worker became one of the earliest martyrs in the civil rights movement

An assessment of the achievement and aesthetic of one of America’s brightest comics innovators

Autobiographical essays, introductions, articles, reviews, and lectures that tell the personal tale of the Peanuts creator and America’s great comic strip

Interviews with the brothers who created the cinéma vérité style of documentary filmmaking and the films Salesman, Gimme Shelter, and Grey Gardens

An analysis of how black women used the mulatta figure to contest racial barriers

An inside account of the backroom negotiations that entangled the United States in the sufferings of its island neighbor

A study of Faulkner’s place among his peers

Over two decades of interviews with the first African American male author to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry

The definitive source for the movie fan magazine and how it espoused hoopla and fashioned stardom

Interviews with the creator of The Thin Blue Line; Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control; The Fog of War; and Standard Operating Procedure

A story of an African American minister who broke from the Seventh-day Adventist church during the Harlem Renaissance

Essays analyzing the impact of African American music and its European reverberations

A thoughtful examination of rough drafts and marketing pressures that reveal conflicts and compromises between five great authors and their publishers

For teachers and students, a guide to understanding one of Faulkner’s masterpieces