"Papers of the American Negro Academy" is a significant collection that showcases the intellectual contributions of African American scholars and activists. This compilation features essays and articles that address various social, political, and cultural issues faced by the African American community. The works of prominent figures such as John Wesley Cromwell, Archibald Henry Grimke, Lafayette M. Hershaw, William Pickens, and Arthur provide valuable insights into the struggles and achiev...

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book AwardThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Mc...

Diane Williams, "godmother of flash fiction" (The Paris Review), returns with thirty-three short, brilliant stories.In Williams's stories, life is newly alive and dangerous; whether she is writing about an affair, a request for money, an afternoon in a garden, or the simple act of carrying a cake from one room to the next, she offers us beautiful and unsettling new ways of seeing everyday life. In perfectly honed sentences, with a sly and occasionally wild...